It sounds like such a gloomy way to begin the new year, especially after the gloom-filled epithet of a year preceding. But post-mortems are actually the first green shoots, the beginning of hope...
This past month, American democracy had a near-death experience. It's clear that we need to treat not just the symptoms, but the disease, and find ways to prevent it from recurring, but how?...
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...
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...
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...
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...
