I don’t typically write about the arts, but Gustavo Dudamel’s move from the Los Angeles Philharmonic to New York represents something bigger than a career change. This is a coast-to-coast story about how leadership works in America’s most traditional institutions. When Dudamel […]
The story of rural healthcare in America is always a story of distance. Distance between patients and providers. Distance between federal policy and local needs. Distance between what is possible and what is practiced. Two years ago, I examined three pioneering programs […]
The plumbing of progress is always invisible until it becomes indispensable. When telegraph cables first crossed the Atlantic, they seemed like curiosities. Within a decade, no ship’s captain could afford to leave port without consulting the latest wire from London. The Suez […]
This year, my writing here reached 100,000 impressions for the first time. But that number tells only part of the story.Behind every impression is a choice someone made. A choice to pause, to read, to engage, sometimes to share. You didn’t have […]
The rules of employment are shifting under workers’ feet. Artificial intelligence isn’t just automating tasks; it is redrawing the boundaries of entire professions. That leaves millions of employees asking the same anxious question: how do I stay employable when the ground itself […]
Margaret Chen has spent thirty-two years teaching fourth grade in San Bernardino. She retired last June with a comfortable pension from CalSTRS, California’s teacher retirement system. What she discovered in her first quarterly statement might have surprised her: among her largest investments […]