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
Independence, Juneteenth, Interdependence Days
Good things come in threes. As we ensure our latest holiday, Juneteenth, is being properly observed, we should race to embrace the all-too natural third leg of the trifecta that began on 7/4/1776...
29 June, 2021
Patriotic vs. Civics Education
Some in our country want to start a Devolutionary War to erase not only much of the progress we've made, but further, all record and acknowledgment of our struggles to get where we are today ...
15 June, 2021
Those Who Will Not Learn
Another day, another mass shooting, and yet guns continue to proliferate, even as, not coincidentally, the peaceful resolution of disputes is increasingly restricted...
10 June, 2021
Biden’s First 100 Days
What progressives never expected him to be, he's been; what he most told us he wanted to be remains elusive...
18 May, 2021
21st Century Citizenship, April 2021: Party, Faction, Tribe
In his farewell address, Washington was very clear about his top-of-mind fear for our democracy: political parties. And yet it's hard to imagine the progress we've made w/out the Ds and Rs...
13 May, 2021
Do We Have Woke And Cancel Culture Backwards?
For all their talk about "cancel culture," it sure looks like it's the post-modern GOP that keeps waking up on the wrong side of the bed...
13 May, 2021
Support Social Ventures To Build Back Better
Doing good by doing well and doing well by doing good are one in the same in the post-pandemic economy, especially when the concept of what constitutes a social venture is appropriately expanded...
20 April, 2021