We live in an age obsessed with data, algorithms, and productivity metrics, yet it is easy to overlook the simplest… Read more
Month: September 2025
The Heartland Pays the Price of Tariffs
On a quiet stretch of Indiana farmland, the combines should be humming. September is harvest season, when grain silos begin… Read more
The New Labor Movement Is in Our Living Rooms
Something remarkable is happening. Across the country, renters are joining together to form tenant unions on a scale we have… Read more
Better Is Not Discovered Once, It Is Rediscovered Daily
Executives love big ideas. They gather in conference rooms, swap metaphors about “moonshots,” and unveil glossy decks about transformation. Yet… Read more
The Future of AI Belongs to All of Us, Not Just Silicon Valley
Here’s what’s happening right now with artificial intelligence: A handful of giant corporations are seizing control of the most transformative… Read more
Tariffs, Turbulence, and a Tumbling Job Market
Eighteen months ago, I wrote about an economy trapped in perpetual limbo, like a plane hovering above the runway, promising… Read more
The Battle Over Healthcare Insurance Subsidies
Rep. Jen Kiggans of Virginia is hardly the person you’d expect to be leading the charge to save Obamacare subsidies…. Read more
Mozart in the Jungle
I don’t typically write about the arts, but Gustavo Dudamel’s move from the Los Angeles Philharmonic to New York represents… Read more
Three Blueprints for Healing Rural America
The story of rural healthcare in America is always a story of distance. Distance between patients and providers. Distance between… Read more
Build It and They Will Come: Musk Just Bought the Sky
The plumbing of progress is always invisible until it becomes indispensable. When telegraph cables first crossed the Atlantic, they seemed… Read more