For Earth Day, 1970, cartoonist Walt Kelly designed a poster with an iconic message: We have met the enemy and he is us. When it comes to democracy, it's true as well...

Real nationalism isn't a threat to democracy in America; it could well be its savior--and ours...

What the Founders intended as the last bulwark in defense of democracy is increasingly undermining it instead, and needs serious reform...

Our nation is a song, one that has been sung, and is yet to be written, a song of harmony and discord, open and concealed...

Finding common ground on the most contentious of moral issues may require first redefining its terms...

The greatest untapped resource to deal with all of America's problems, including the divisions between us, is Americans...

The subject that originated public education has the highest stakes of all, and states like Massachusetts and Illinois are illuminating the path back to the future, aided and abetted by a plethora of new 21st century resources...