Michael Slaby

Winning is not a moral good

What do we do when "winning" is no longer correlated with progress?

Data-driven, data-represented

Is the disconnect between representatives and represented being driven by our increasingly data-driven campaigns?

How we heal

Hint: it's not about depolarization. Healing requires inclusion. Inclusion requires celebrating, not just tolerating difference.

The local costs of polarization

People often talked about ignoring our nationalized dysfunctional political discourse and focusing locally. Is that even possible? What is polarization costing us?

The Exhausted Majority

What do we really mean when we say polarization? Perhaps the reality of American political culture is not as bi-polar as we've gotten used to -- or been told.

Why we should care about polarization

Other than the fact that our national civic dialog feels like an elementary school food fight, does the increased intensity of political polarization matter? Yes -- profoundly.

Youngkin is the not end of Trumpism

He represents a metastatic evolution of Trumpism that reinstitutionalizes a dangerous, backward-looking worldview that will make the transformation that humanity craves (and desperately needs) harder.

Meta what?

Short (but not hot) take on Facebook’s new name.

Work, exploitation, and wealth

We need a real conversation about the opportunity The Great Pause has given us and why people are working differently.

Diagnosis over direction

What Ezra Klein gets so right and what Democrats are getting so wrong about the nature and future of our country.

When personal choices shouldn't just be personal

How people are validating their non-medical choice not to be vaccinated says volumes about the nature of American culture.

Is water water actually everywhere?

CNN published an exceptional narrative about the looming Colorado River water crisis -- but never asked what might be the most essential question.