A knee on the neck of a man, the light fading from his eyes, a micro-microcosm of 400+ years of history suddenly blown up and out to the ends of the earth. A systemic problem demands a systemic response...
Paradox is the seed capital for crisis: the opposite of social distancing, in spirit, is going to be necessary to get COVID-19 behind us...
To deal with challenges as fundamental as our nation is now facing, we don't need a plan--we need four of them...
Regression in software and statistics is used to find mistakes; in politics, it's being used to make them...
COVID-19 kills by quietly destroying your lungs; by the time you start feeling pain and find yourself gasping for breath, it's too late. Let that not be the same for our country...
There's ample war-time precedent for what it takes to be a war-time president, and Donald Trump is falling short in every conceivable way...
They're just tools in the toolbox, and neither the box nor the handymen and women needed to create the society we want are economic systems at all...
As we head into the elections, we're increasingly hearing a tale of two economies. Has it been a boom or bust for workers? It depends, and neither...
In the week since our last post, the Trump Administration has continued to cross previously uncrossed lines, as if determined to permanently change the definition of the term "norm." We have other permanent changes in mind...
The decade 2010–2019 for the United States, to paraphrase T.S. Eliot, was one that “ended not with a bang but with a whimper.” 2020–2029 must be the decade of recovery because time is running out...
