21st Century Citizenship, October 2020: Rigging
If you think you’ve seen this movie before, you have. It’s not Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, though. It’s Donald Trump making baseless claims about the system being rigged...
15 November, 2020
21st Century Citizenship, September 2020: Small
We yearn for simplicity, we rely on small business for jobs & innovation, technology & globalization provide unprecedented opportunities for the small. And yet everywhere smallness looks to be endangered...
12 October, 2020
21st Century Citizenship, August 2020: Diversity Forever
If George Wallace were alive today, he might well amend his infamous cry. Every part of America is diversifying, and even the birds and bees know it's essential to our future...
18 September, 2020
21st Century Citizenship, July 2020: Diversity, Division
America has become like the lattices of an apple pie, a nation engaged in much parallel play. Where lattices meet lies both conflict and resolution, the harmony and balance between diversity and divides...
13 August, 2020
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
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
21st Century Citizenship, March 2020: Recovery
It may seem like we are in a long national nightmare from which we will never awaken. But that need not be, if we citizens remember that America is the land of second chances, but not straight lines...
03 March, 2020
21st Century Citizenship, February 2020: India
Last year, we took our February fingertips to the United Kingdom; this year's travelogue landed us in India, the world's largest democracy, struggling with challenges that eerily mirror our own...
10 February, 2020
21st Century Citizenship, January 2020: Best Of
Out of the tumult of 2019 have emerged many inspiring stories and ideas, which we celebrate with our second annual "best of" edition, recognizing both the posts and stories you, our community, liked best (based on your clicks) and those that were our favorites....
04 January, 2020