Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Is This The End of Shopping?

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All over the world, as populism surges, as creative destruction makes economic change inevitable, the focus on manufacturing and manufacturi...
Monday, January 21, 2019

The Wives of the Vietnam Era: What We Learned and What's Different Today

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The poet John Milton writing in the 17th century got it right when he said that “They also serve who only stand and wait.” No better descri...
Thursday, January 17, 2019

Housing, Housing, Housing

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Over the past two decades, we’ve seen a modern great migration as more and more Americans move from suburban and rural America to cities. Th...
Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Disruption, Terrorism, Climate Change...Just Some of the Risk Today's Corporations Face

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Every day we talk about disruption as if it's mostly positive within the business and consumer environment. But for companies today, bot...
Wednesday, January 9, 2019

The Pentagon's $21 Trillion Con Game

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Some of you may recall a few weeks ago, newly elected Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made a splash, talking about $21 trillion in ...
Saturday, January 5, 2019

San Francisco, Silicon Valley and the Future of Cities

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Social, cultural and technological change is all around us. We live in an era of upheaval, not unlike the movement from an agrarian to a ma...
Monday, December 31, 2018

We All Have A Role To Play In the Biggest Story of 2019

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We think that politics might actually change the world for better or for worse. It probably won't. It's certainly more likely that ...
Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Black Feminist Politics

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The Blue Wave of the recent election would not have been possible without black women voters. The election of Doug Jones in Alabama would no...

With Each New Year, Do We Loose A Little of What Makes Us Human?

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How much of your work day is about emails, texts, Slack, Basecamp or Shift? And how much is about phone calls or meetings or basic human co...
Wednesday, December 19, 2018

The Business of Punishment

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The U.S. imprisons a higher portion of its population than any country in the world. The so-called “prison industrial complex” is, for many ...
Thursday, December 13, 2018

Is it Possible to Believe in Nationalism and Think Globally at the Same Time?

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It seems that every day, as Trump makes another seemingly horrible comment, we ask ourselves how did this happen? Millions of words have bee...
Tuesday, December 11, 2018

What Gonzo Journalism Might Look Like Today? A Look At Hunter S. Thompson vs. Nixon

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At a time when journalism is under siege when the attacks sometimes result in too much caution when the goal of politicians is to attack jou...
Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Bribery, Kickbacks and Corruption: Why It Matters

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When we hear the phrase follow the money, we’ve come to understand that it usually leads back to nefarious political activities, self-dealin...
Monday, November 26, 2018

The War Before the War: Then and Maybe Now

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We study history not so that it can tell us what we should necessarily do, but to tell us what to avoid. For it is often the task of succee...
Thursday, November 22, 2018

The Week Politics Went Tabloid: A Conversation with Matt Bai about Gary Hart and THE FRONT RUNNER

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For those that study and write about politics, the holy grail is to find those seminal moments in the nation's public and political life...
Tuesday, November 20, 2018

California is Burning - Here's Why

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For those of you that are old enough, you may remember that one of the crazy ideas that came out of counterinsurgency during the Vietnam War...

Jamal Khashoggi's Secret Interview

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The world of journalism faces an existential crisis . Attacks on the press as "the enemy of the people" by the president of the Un...
Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Why Capitalism Matters and Why We Need to Protect It

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Bill Clinton got it almost right when he said, “it’s the economy stupid.” But it’s more than that. It might be more accurate to say, it...
Monday, November 12, 2018

History in Plain Sight: WWI and the Unknown Soldiers

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Someone wrote a national column last year suggesting that whoever we elect to office should at the very least be able to pass a basic high s...
Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Greg Sargent looks at Thunderdome Politics in the Age of Trump

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Just how fragile or resilient are our democratic institutions? For two years we’ve heard that the fundamental institutions, like the courts...