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
21st Century Citizenship, December 2019: Teach/ing
The Latin root of education, educare, means to lead out. In a 'post-truth' world, teachers, the nation's curators and explainers of knowledge, are going to play an outsized role in holding our republic together...
10 December, 2019
21st Century Citizenship, November 2019: Enough
When is enough enough? It's a question we must ask with respect to so many aspects of our lives in these times. In politics today, the query is with us daily, because impeachment is the Constitution's way of posing it...
10 November, 2019
21st Century Citizenship, October 2019: Labor
Our greatest president, Abraham Lincoln, once observed: "Capital is only the fruit of labor. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." How times have changed--and not...
06 October, 2019
21st Century Citizenship, Sept 2019: Generations
Since his election, the current President and his administration have fractured American democracy and divided its citizenry, most painfully and personally along generational lines. The steps that citizens of all stripes and ages are already engaged in to insure an unbroken arc of progress in...
03 September, 2019
21st Century Citizenship, August 2019: Democracy
"It's a republic, not a democracy" say the defenders of minority rule, sliding into authoritarianism. For the founders, and Noah Webster after them, there wasn't remotely as much daylight between the two as seems to have opened up since. There are serious questions now about what our democracy...
09 August, 2019