Monday, February 25, 2019

The History of our Future: A Conversation with Former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler

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We’ve talked before about those frightening four words heard all too often. “This time it’s different.” Perhaps, besides Wall Street, nowh...
Friday, February 22, 2019

The Future is Asian

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The 19th century has often been referred to as the imperial or British century. The period, after WWII was, in words coined by Henry Luce, ...
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

If You Spend Hours Watching Cable News, You Are Just A Political Hobbyist

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Partly as a result of 24/7 cable news and its unending political coverage, politics today is simply another form of entertainment. A specta...

Patriarchy in the Me Too Era: A conversation with Carol Gilligan

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We live in an age of extremes. We talk about it every day with respect to the economic divide, the political divide, the racial divide, and...
Monday, February 18, 2019

When Did We Start This "Division Thing?"

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We wonder why millennials are different. Imagine growing up in our current highly partisan, polarized political environment, and not knowing...
Tuesday, February 12, 2019

What If The Solution to Fix Democracy is Actually Less Democracy

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According to a report just released by Freedom House, a watchdog group that advocates for democracy, political rights, and civil liberties b...
Thursday, February 7, 2019

Why We Need Special Prosecutors....It's Not For Harassment

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Ken Starr, Archibald Cox, Leon Jaworski, Lawrence Walsh, and Robert Mueller. These names are almost as familiar as the Presidents they inve...
Monday, February 4, 2019

Philip Johnson and the Politics of Architecture, the Architecture of Politics

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In an era in which everything it politicized, from the TV shows and the movies we watch to the places we shop, it’s not surprising that arch...
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...