Hope Dies Last
That was the title of Studs Turkel's final work. It's time to take inspiration from and join him, along with many other great Americans, who have risen, risen above the dying of the light....
06 November, 2021
Wanted, Needed: A 21st Century Workforce Development System
The distortions of wealth and power in our economy have gotten so bad quitters are actually winning, but the economic arc of America hasn't changed--it's better to make everyone a winner instead...
25 October, 2021
Wanted, Needed: A 21st Century Workforce
Faced with a job market pockmarked with vacuums and sandpits, American workers are stepping back and away in what's being called the Great Resignation, but there's no reason to be resigned to it; indeed, we can't be...
17 October, 2021
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