Two Roads Diverge In America
We have come to what poet Robert Frost would call a fork in the road in our country. Relative to the world, we've always taken the one less traveled by, and it has made all the difference...
03 October, 2024
Narrowing the Urban-Rural Divide
The urban-rural divide that dominates our politics today is not new, but in recent decades it has been approaching fracture. Fortunately, there are ways & means to mend it and make our nation stronger than ever before, and some of this coalescence is already occurring...
06 September, 2024
Olympic Labor
The Paris Olympic Games showcased an inspiring revival of the can-do American spirit and commitment to excellence. Our workers have been, and continue to be, Olympian in every profession in every way...
29 August, 2024
Advancing The Elegy
There needs to be an American elegy written for poor, lower-income, and middle class workers. JD Vance has shown, repeatedly, in his words and actions, that he will not be the one to write it...
13 August, 2024
The Supreme Court: Fear For Our Democracy’s Future
The Court is officially out of docket and off the constitutional rails. There are common sense reforms supported by we, the people, and even conservative legal scholars, but it will take more than voting between now and 11/5 to get it in balance and back...
06 August, 2024
Sorcerer, Not Apprentice
He hosted a show called The Apprentice that had nothing to do with the genuine article because he's never been one himself--always and only a sorcerer. That's why he was a historic failure as president--and is an unprecedented danger to the nation today...
09 July, 2024
Reasons For Hope And Happiness On The 4th Of July
When the Founders declared independence nearly 248 years ago, it was also a declaration of hope. What they hoped for is all around us, which is why we need to make our own declarations today...
02 July, 2024
21st Century Workforce Development
Today's American economy is literally the wonder of the world, but there's one sign we may be out over our skis--if every unemployed American in the labor force found full-time work, there would still be 2.4 million open jobs unfilled...
12 June, 2024
Public School Teaching: A Profession at Risk
All across the country, school's out, and both students and teachers have left the buildings. The difference: many of the teachers are never coming back...
04 June, 2024
Democrats In Wonderland
Republicans have all the answers (at least they think so); Democrats prefer to ask questions. But if they don't start acting now, asking later, wondering Dems could find themselves wandering in the wilderness for a long, long time...
08 May, 2024