Research shows trust in the news media has shattered for many reasons, most of which are not under its control; only those whose trust was abused and challenged can restore it for all...

07 July, 2025

During his tenure as President at the beginning of the twentieth century, Theodore Roosevelt became known for “trust-busting.” In the 21st, this expression has taken on a new meaning...

02 July, 2025

We like to talk about perfect storms in the 21st century. In the case of AI, "perfect" doesn't look like the right word to be using, nor do we know yet how big a storm it's going to be...

05 June, 2025

America has long been the world's leading repository for hope. Now, when hope has become the hardest it's been to come by for a long, long time, one of the world's leading faiths has chosen an American to lead it for the very first...

04 June, 2025

The devastation Trump has wrought has been swift, wide, and deep b/c he came to office with a 900 page plan he denied ever even having read (probably true). That plan took three years to develop--it's time for America to begin creating a plan...

08 May, 2025

Never before have we had an occupant of the Oval Office who has taken the business norm of "creative destruction" quite so literally, taking actions daily that require an ever-expanding dictionary to describe...

30 April, 2025

Have we all gone bananas? Or have just a select few in our bunch gotten overripe? These days we seem to be bordering on a republic of a certain kind, but with the opposite of 25% off on everything in the store...

10 April, 2025

When Trump axed the U.S. Agency for Global Media, the Voice of America went silent all over the world, much to Russia's delight. And that's hardly the only American voice he's been endeavoring to silence...

03 April, 2025

Reports of its death, like everything Trump says, may be greatly exaggerated, but he and Musk aren't even playing Munchausen by proxy at its bedside. Are there doctors in the house?...

10 March, 2025

Donald Trump thought he was being provocative when he renamed the Gulf of Mexico, but he wasn't even particularly original--the Gulf of America has been both a natural and fabricated part of our landscape for quite some time now...

05 March, 2025
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