It will surely hurt his feelings to hear it, but Trump's 90+ felony charges pale in comparison to the real Trial of the Century. The defendant is democracy, the jury is we, the people, and the verdict will determine the future of the free...
What should we be more thankful than that we're here? And thankful for what made this, and the country we've become, possible: immigration and immigrants...
Geography is the science of place and America is a very big place. Not surprisingly, in times of division, geography is often at the root of the divide, while the ways in which humanity rises above it to form common ground is our wellspring of hope...
[caption id="attachment_3453" align="alignnone" width="925"] Click the image above to learn more about (and acquire) the book (we earn no commission or any other revenue on its sale)[/caption] In her new book, the chair of the Democratic party in Nebraska says unlikely alliances are the way forward...
Our first president said it first, and the last real Republican president said it best: "Every immigrant makes our nation more, not less, American." And today what divides us on immigration--stunting our growth as a nation--is no more substantial than a border wall...
Unity and union share the same root, but while appeals for unity are, too often, calls by "powers that be" to fall in line, unions are typically the product of contention. And yet, in the long run, more vital to unity than establishment appeals...
There's much intoning these days about the urban-rural divide. The irony, as we've known since the heyday of Swift's, is our poles face more challenges in common than what separates them...
Are America's cities dying? We posed that question in 2015, and as in so many other ways, the subsequent pandemic revealed more than it created. The good news? Urban policymakers have an opportunity to do something COVID doctors could not: make their patients better than...
It's said one of the challenges in dealing with climate change is that it's so big it's hard for anyone to get their arms around it. That's because the climate in need of change goes far beyond the weather...
Since our last infrastructure post, billions have rightfully been spent on our physical plant, but the state of our human infrastructure has only deteriorated. Fortunately there's a solution it takes willful--and un-American--blindness not to see...
