The news is in trouble, trouble, but there are as many solutions as there are segments on a nightly news show or sections in a Sunday paper, solutions that include solutions--and self-care...
Journalists describe the current state of their industry as "struggling" and in "chaos," but they're a lot more positive about their work than the public, and therein lie the beginnings of hope...
On July 8th, investigative journalist Amanda Ripley broke a story in the Washington Post that was apparently news to many of her peers, but not to wide swaths of the American public across the political spectrum...
There's fetid talk of 1861 in the air, but to truly make America great again, we'll have to reach further back than that, all the way to 1776, this time to fight a war for interdependence...
The Lords giveth and the Lords taketh away--that seems to be the motto of today's Supreme Court. We suspect even Alexander Hamilton is rolling over in his grave...
Our current political sprawl (threatening to become a brawl) has spawned not just divisions, but subdivisions as well. Fortunately, the pieces could be easier to put back together than a summer holiday puzzle...
As time passes, Amazon.com has become increasingly like its force-of-nature namesake river, for both better and worse, as the company, its employees, its contractors, and its customers all seek to ride the waves...
With the 'Internet's town square' under new management, titans of politics and business are wrestling anew with the challenge of supporting free speech in the Disinformation Age...
There's been a lot of talk recently about Jimmy Carter, the 1970's, and "stagflation." The truth is that our economy is in a state of "conflation," to which traditional metrics no longer apply....
For years, the word "infrastructure" has had the adjective "crumbling" welded to it. No more, thanks, in part, to the bipartisan infrastructure bill, but also because there aren't enough workers qualified and motivated to weld it...
