As we continue to celebrate our collective birthday, it's not too early to consider our next 250 through three vanguards of politics' next: the young, immigrants, and technology...

27 July, 2026

It's been called "the last refuge of scoundrels," and with the far right appropriating its trappings, it would be understandable if many Americans agreed, but a nationwide decline in patriotic fervor may account for the crossroads we find ourselves at today...

22 June, 2026

AI is the apotheosis of a world that seems increasingly untethered from reality, but it--and all artifice we create--can never be more than a reflection of us all, unless we choose to be nothing more than reflections ourselves...

01 June, 2026

The pursuit of happiness has always been central to what it means to be American, but what this meant to the Founders was clearly different than what it means today, and that may well be at the heart of the problems we face...

23 March, 2026

we don't need the “king's horses” and "king’s men," but we do need concerned citizens to collaborate in reconstructing and revitalizing our democratic republic, in order to avoid fighting the same battles over and over again...

22 January, 2026

"'Tis pity, the little time we have to spend in this world, we cannot enjoy ourselves and our friends"  When Lucy Knox wrote those words in 1777, the British had begun a campaign that seemed likely to split the nation. Then, as now, America was seeking...

24 December, 2025

An administration whose daily goals of ever-increasing chaos and obfuscation are increasingly echoed by the world presents an age-old conundrum: how to see the forest for the trees...

28 November, 2025

With the escalation of both rhetoric and actions by the Trump administration (and facial hair sprouting like it's 1859), the unthinkable has peeked over our horizon like a rogue planet...

21 October, 2025
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