Let’s Make The U.S. A Startup Nation Again
The COVID epidemic has been a time of bittersweet reckoning and reflection for many, with record numbers of new businesses rising from its ashes ...
10 October, 2021
21st Century Citizenship, August 2021: Interdependence
It's said that in life, we go through three stages: dependence, independence, and interdependence. As a nation, like mid-lifers in crisis, we've been stuck in the second stage for more than 250 years...
27 September, 2021
21st Century Citizenship, July 2021: Origins
Never in our history have we seemed so lost, so unsure of who we are. Instinctively, like children, we seek to go back to our beginnings. But origins nearly always prove more complex than we expected...
27 September, 2021
The Cancer Cult, Part 3: Mental Health
It's projected that we'll be dealing with the mental health effects of COVID for decades. For members of Trump's cancer cult, as well as those who have to share this country with them, it could be longer. It already has been....
17 September, 2021
The Cancer Cult, Part 2: Democracy
In 1974, White House lawyer John Dean reported to then-president Richard Nixon there was a cancer on the presidency. That cancer has since metastasized and spread throughout our democracy ...
01 September, 2021
The Cancer Cult, Part 1: Public Health
The body politic in any free society is subject to many ills, and as in our lives, the most dangerous is not COVID, it's cancer, and like cancer, sooner or later, every democracy has to confront it...
17 August, 2021
Bridges Over Walls
We are a nation built by and on the backs of immigrants, but have always had problems grappling with immigration. In the hypercompetitive global economy, that's a luxury we can no longer afford....
04 August, 2021
21st Century Citizenship, June 2021: Backwards, Forwards
There are six degrees of separation from the past, not in sequence, but overlapping, like waves: embrace it, reject it, avoid it, ignore it, learn from it, build on it...
27 July, 2021
21st Century Citizenship, May 2021: Engagement
At a time when mistrust is at its highest levels since the Civil War, we have to work together like we haven't since World War II. New understandings and new forms of engagement are going to be necessary in all sectors...
27 July, 2021
The Wealth Gap Has Gone Sky-High
There couldn't be a better symbol for income inequality than the billionaire space race in full swing. Fortunately for the rest of us, there's a lot being done to bring it back down to earth...
13 July, 2021