2023 saw the passing of three remarkable women in the civic life of our country, one from each branch of government, all almost as remarkable for their journeys as for their destinations and achievements...
After a year like this one, it's natural to have a lot of wishes, and we do, some of them dating back to at least 2016. But they all come down to one....
It will surely hurt his feelings to hear it, but Trump's 90+ felony charges pale in comparison to the real Trial of the Century. The defendant is democracy, the jury is we, the people, and the verdict will determine the future of the free...
What should we be more thankful than that we're here? And thankful for what made this, and the country we've become, possible: immigration and immigrants...
Our first president said it first, and the last real Republican president said it best: "Every immigrant makes our nation more, not less, American." And today what divides us on immigration--stunting our growth as a nation--is no more substantial than a border wall...
There's much intoning these days about the urban-rural divide. The irony, as we've known since the heyday of Swift's, is our poles face more challenges in common than what separates them...
Are America's cities dying? We posed that question in 2015, and as in so many other ways, the subsequent pandemic revealed more than it created. The good news? Urban policymakers have an opportunity to do something COVID doctors could not: make their patients better than...
Since our last infrastructure post, billions have rightfully been spent on our physical plant, but the state of our human infrastructure has only deteriorated. Fortunately there's a solution it takes willful--and un-American--blindness not to see...
Are strikes good or bad? That depends on whether you're pitching or at bat, but America's workers will never know if they're home or away unless they take the field...
It's the thing with feathers, the rope we grip in stormy seas or on steep climbs, known around the world as the quality that for many best defines the nature of America and Americans and, fortunately, can still be found in quantity if you know...
