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.
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.
Why continuing to try to predict the future in a moment of impossibly heavy uncertainty might be one of our keys to changing course.
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?
Who does the hyperpolarized, hyperpartisan narrative in American politics really benefit? And is it getting in our way of something better...
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.
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.
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.
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.
If damage is the strategy, then the cracks are our guide to the work our democracy needs from us, win or lose.
Our Federal courts may have accidentally turned Section 230 into the tool it was meant to be.
The most important insight might not be anything that happens in the simulated Situation Room but what kept one of the characters from ending up on the wrong side of the "war".
Slowing down might help us unlock the creativity and the kindness we desperately need right now.
The stories we share can transform us and our communities and our society. But artists must be willing to accept the responsibility that comes with those powers.
As Rishad Tobaccowala says sometimes "the future does not fit in the containers of the past." We need Congress to help us define new containers for information, culture, and community.
Civilization's relentless focus on achievement and outcomes creates a more competitive worldview and makes us more vulnerable than we think.
Ending a year of "difficult" to begin a year of "dread"? How we might enter this new year in a way that might could lead to rebuilding some of what feels lost.
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What an ancient text might have to offer us right now on how to show up in a relentless world.
No matter how heavy and intractable and desperate things may feel, we are not lost. But we might need to shift where we are look for direction.
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Sharing the voices of others to help us get more of what we need right now
I’m back at the keyboard after a challenging Summer that ended with an interesting opportunity to step up in front of a community in Sweden and start talking about the building blocks of a more generative society. For months, I have had this thought in my mind: What if
Approaching the world in the right order might be a key to rethinking our relationships and building a healthier society.