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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
