For years, the word "infrastructure" has had the adjective "crumbling" welded to it. No more, thanks, in part, to the bipartisan infrastructure bill, but also because there aren't enough workers qualified and motivated to weld it...

As the conflict in Ukraine continues to evolve, it increasingly 'spits bars' from our own history and experience. Cumulatively, its inflections and outcomes may represent turning points in democracy's struggle against authoritarianism, both domestically and around the world...

2021 was the year of a special type of start-up entrepreneur, the edupreneur, who's not just for K-college education anymore, but dedicated to empowering customers in any field, discipline, industry, or life...

With Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine, an entire era reached forward from the past to prove Faulkner right and push us all backwards and off-balance. Do we still have the collective resolve to move this nation and the world forward?...

For one night, at least, Joe Biden's State of the Union address suggested no need to rename it, but had it been delivered days earlier, leaders of one party seemed to hail from another country...

We live in a time when islands sink under the waves. Solving our mental health crisis is going to require the kind of community-centric approach, not rugged individualism, that built our nation...

Optimism has always been integral in our rise to the first rank, if not the pinnacle, of nations.  Now would be the worst time in at least eighty years, if not our entire history, to lose it. ...

There's another pandemic in America that's going largely untreated, spawned via the unholy union of Trumpism and COVID-19, and mutating into variants of identity, individuality, and isolation...

Harry Reid, John Madden, and Betty White had more in common than the recency of their departure from our all-too-mortal coil and the ineffable power of the legacies they left behind...