Weekend Edition: How we become 130M Democrats
The work of party building is always ongoing, but emerging from our current dysfunction to build something new requires a deep commitment to transform a party that has been stuck for...a while.
Our search for leadership
How we look for leadership matters. Replacing Sen. Schumer as the Senate minority leader might be warranted (even needed) but isn't the right answer to the right question we should be asking about the leadership we need right now.
Slouching toward a zero-context culture
We are headed down an AI-accelerated path toward hyper-efficient society and teams that lack the openness, freedom, and creativity of high-context cultures.
The Nine Revolutions of Democracy
How Micah Bornfree's Unified Theory of Revolution combined with a dimension of time might could help us make sense of the work confronting us and keep us moving toward the nation we need.
The Supreme Court as culturemaker
The highest court in the land not only decides our most fundamental constitutional questions, their power to choose which cases they hear at all fundamentally shapes our civic culture and discourse in largely silent ways.
Weekend Edition: Just better strategy
We need adaptable, creative strategies to confront the challenges and embrace the opportunities we are facing and that kind of adaptable creativity only emerges from diverse teams.
The wisdom of Octavia Butler we need right now
Why continuing to try to predict the future in a moment of impossibly heavy uncertainty might be one of our keys to changing course.
Weekend Edition: Upgraded agents are coming
Most discussion about generative AI tools has centered around the challenges and opportunities posed by synthetic content. Now that these agents are taking actions for us, what impacts might ceding that agency have on us and on society?
Party and ideology in 2025
Who does the hyperpolarized, hyperpartisan narrative in American politics really benefit? And is it getting in our way of something better...
Weekend Edition: How we become 130M Democrats
The work of party building is always ongoing, but emerging from our current dysfunction to build something new requires a deep commitment to transform a party that has been stuck for...a while.
Weekend Edition: 130M Democrats
The cracks are the map. Passive. Disconnected. Condescending. Exclusionary. Neoliberal. All solvable if we go straight at each of these perceptions or failures of the Democratic Party.
An economics of value beyond wealth
Examining the relationship between wealth, self-esteem, and community value might help us unlock new paths to transforming our economy and reclaiming our civic life.
Ready for another way
The Democratic Party has been in the wilderness for a long time now. Perhaps the consequences are stark enough, the excuses flimsy enough that we can finally embrace real transformation.