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...
Many are starting to think they can see the darkness at the end of the world; proving them wrong will require changing the focus from the end of the human race to the race we must collectively win...
We know justice is supposed to be blind, but that doesn't mean the justices of what originalist Alexander Hamilton promised us was "the least dangerous branch" should be willfully so...
As we approach another anniversary of our nation's birth, it's become increasingly difficult to recall what we're celebrating and, indeed, to visualize our "indivisible" republic itself...
Not Necessarily the News was a satirical HBO comedy series that ran from 1983 to 1990. As seems so often the case these days, what was thought to be a comedy has turned out to be, in title at least, a forecast instead...
