RIP GOP. Hello POT.
The party formerly known as the GOP has failed to take the last pivot from the road to perdition and become the Party Of Trump. What they're smoking is open to debate...
09 March, 2021
21st Century Citizenship, February 2021: Best Of 2020
Normally we put this issue out in early January, but this year, 2020 lasted longer than usual, all the way to December 51st. The good news is that even though 2020 seemed to go on forever, it produced many ideas and initiatives worth re-sharing...
28 February, 2021
Time to Renew and Rebuild America’s Hollowed Out Middle Class
The American middle class may soon go the way of the dinosaur. But it will not disappear completely or become extinct. And it's not too late to ensure it evolves into a flock of birds instead...
26 February, 2021
MLK vs MTG
They share three letter acronyms, but only one belongs in the company of FDR, JFK, and LBJ, indeed leads them where our founding values are concerned...
17 February, 2021
James McBride & Ethan Hawke
Sometimes we need to review our judgments on historical figures for resonances with the present day. The author James McBride decided the abolitionist John Brown was such a personage...
28 January, 2021
Asheville(NC)/Providence(RI)
While the federal government continues to kick the can on reparations, local communities like Asheville (NC) and Providence (RI) are moving forward...
28 January, 2021
Abandoned America
Walls talk. And they tell us we're endlessly repeating mistakes even as much of our common heritage falls to the wrecking ball. In Abandoned America they get finally their chance to speak...
28 January, 2021
12/7, 9/11, and 1/6
Three dates that will live in infamy. To make 12-7-9-11-1-6 a winning ticker for the nation, we must make 1/20/21 the most important date of all...
28 January, 2021
21st Century Citizenship, January 2021: Post-Mortems & Perspectives
It sounds like such a gloomy way to begin the new year, especially after the gloom-filled epithet of a year preceding. But post-mortems are actually the first green shoots, the beginning of hope...
27 January, 2021
Rebuilding & Renewing Our Hollowed Out Government
Shocking as 1/6 may have been, the Capitol Building was the only one left in government Trump and his supporters had not yet stormed...
16 January, 2021