21st Century Citizenship, June 2020: Healing
When the 1918 pandemic, the Great Depression, and the 1960s combine, we're in need of intensive care: healing must come first, before we can recover...
10 July, 2020
Cyrus The Great
Cyrus The Great not only inspired our founding fathers, but in many ways, two thousand+ years after his rule, is still ahead of our time. To claim that Donald Trump is the Cyrus of anything is a calumny of the lowest order...
10 July, 2020
B.R. Ambedkar
By political miracle, the father of the constitution of one of the world's ten most rigidly class-based nations, India, came from its lowest caste...
10 July, 2020
A Monumental Undertaking
George Floyd's death has compelled reckonings from small-town America to NASCAR, MLB, and the NFL, with dozens of shameless monuments to the Confederacy at ground zero. Here's how we can convert our statues of limitations into limitless opportunity...
09 July, 2020
Flickering Beacons
Why India is the one indispensible nation where the future of democracy is concerned, according to Tom de Boor and Ed Crego, and how its leadership can set the example for the rest of the world, even the U.S. to follow...
04 July, 2020
Radical Centrists
Radical centrist organizations and communities around the world are seeking to synthesize the best ideas of right and left to bridge partisan divides and dysfunction to move their countries forward...
04 July, 2020
Interdependence Day
We all need a holiday, but not from each other. The events of the last year--both positive and negative--call for a new celebration on the calendar...
01 July, 2020
21st Century Citizenship, May 2020: Regression
Regression can be a good thing. In software and statistics it's used to find mistakes; in politics, it's being used to make them...
15 June, 2020
21st Century Citizenship, April 2020: Pandemic
It's too much to expect, but it's not too much to ask -- Joe Diffie, 1958-2020 Pray for us all. Especially those in ICUs, all alone. And those trying to save them...
15 June, 2020
Where America Goes From Here
Many see the 1960s in the George Floyd protests. In commentary for the Middle East North Africa Financial Network, Frank sees reason for optimism in the differences between then and now...
15 June, 2020