Free Speech–And Disinformation
With the 'Internet's town square' under new management, titans of politics and business are wrestling anew with the challenge of supporting free speech in the Disinformation Age...
09 May, 2022
Our Conflated Economy
There's been a lot of talk recently about Jimmy Carter, the 1970's, and "stagflation." The truth is that our economy is in a state of "conflation," to which traditional metrics no longer apply....
01 May, 2022
Teachers, Truckers, and Tradespeople
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...
14 April, 2022
21st Century Citizenship, April 2022: Ukraine
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...
14 April, 2022
Entrepreneurs & Edupreneurs
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...
05 April, 2022
Can Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine Become A Pivot Point?
Can evil made tangible by Russia and inspiration embodied by the Ukrainians become the basis for unity on behalf of democracy in our country? A glimmer of hope appears to be growing...
15 March, 2022
21st Century Citizenship, February 2022: Fracture
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?...
11 March, 2022
The United States of Disunion?
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...
09 March, 2022
The Community-Centric Cure
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...
12 February, 2022
21st Century Citizenship, January 2022: Hope
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. ...
07 February, 2022