Public education has long been one of the pillars upon which democracy has been built. Today, it's under siege, and like elementary math, the solutions are both simple and hard...

15 October, 2022

Our flag and Constitution are both tapestries in support of our more perfect union. Our founding documentis increasingly multi- hued, but is our flag--and our democracy--unfurling or unraveling?...

05 October, 2022

As the Founders created their new form of government, they quickly realized the need for checks on its power, from which emerged, most sweepingly, the 1st Amendment. But as our democracy comes under fire, the role of the media as defender has been subject to...

26 September, 2022

The hard times ahead will require and provide a plethora of opportunities for small business and entrepreneurs to stand up, step out, lean in, deal and deliver for the home team...

14 September, 2022

It's a highly infectious disease of the economy in which the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. There's no vaccine, no known cure, but there could be new treatments derived from an old remedy...

30 August, 2022

Many of our earliest flags and symbols were arboreal for good reason; like a tree, our democracy has sheltered us from the elements and spread wide to embrace all denizens, but some today fail to understand the common imperative of trees and democracy, seeing the...

16 August, 2022

Journalists describe the current state of their industry as "struggling" and in "chaos," but they're a lot more positive about their work than the public, and therein lie the beginnings of hope...

12 August, 2022

On July 8th, investigative journalist Amanda Ripley broke a story in the Washington Post that was apparently news to many of her peers, but not to wide swaths of the American public across the political spectrum...

03 August, 2022

There's fetid talk of 1861 in the air, but to truly make America great again, we'll have to reach further back than that, all the way to 1776, this time to fight a war for interdependence...

15 July, 2022
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