Navigating Public Policy, Technology, Health, Data, and Innovation for a Fairer Future
We live in an age obsessed with data, algorithms, and productivity metrics, yet it is easy to overlook the simplest truth: people live by stories. We organize our lives through them, we build trust with them, we justify decisions with them. And yet, in the great ledgers of economics, stories are treated as if they Read More “Why the Future Belongs to Storytellers”
On a quiet stretch of Indiana farmland, the combines should be humming. September is harvest season, when grain silos begin to fill and contracts with Chinese buyers typically bring relief to debt-laden families. Yet this year the bins stand conspicuously empty. China, once the world’s largest buyer of American soybeans, has turned off the spigot. Read More “The Heartland Pays the Price of Tariffs”
Something remarkable is happening. Across the country, renters are joining together to form tenant unions on a scale we have never seen before. In affordable housing complexes owned by Capital Realty Group, more than 1,000 residents in five states are organizing across buildings, across cities, and even across state lines. It is a hopeful, inspiring Read More “The New Labor Movement Is in Our Living Rooms”
Executives love big ideas. They gather in conference rooms, swap metaphors about “moonshots,” and unveil glossy decks about transformation. Yet when the excitement fades, most projects remain exactly where they started: on the slide, never touching the lives of employees or customers. The problem is not lack of vision. The problem is lack of discipline. Read More “Better Is Not Discovered Once, It Is Rediscovered Daily”
Here’s what’s happening right now with artificial intelligence: A handful of giant corporations are seizing control of the most transformative technology of our era, making unilateral decisions about who gets access, how much it costs, and what purposes it serves. This approach is fundamentally backwards. AI should function as a public resource accessible to all Read More “The Future of AI Belongs to All of Us, Not Just Silicon Valley”
Eighteen months ago, I wrote about an economy trapped in perpetual limbo, like a plane hovering above the runway, promising a soft landing that never quite materialized. Back then, we had genuinely strong economic indicators that simply refused to translate into public confidence. The unemployment rate was low, wages were rising, consumer spending was robust, Read More “Tariffs, Turbulence, and a Tumbling Job Market”
Rep. Jen Kiggans of Virginia is hardly the person you’d expect to be leading the charge to save Obamacare subsidies. A Republican, a Navy veteran, and a nurse practitioner representing one of the nation’s toughest swing districts, she has built a reputation as a team player in her caucus. But today, in her second term, Read More “The Battle Over Healthcare Insurance Subsidies”
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 took the podium at Lincoln Center last month, he did something most conductors Read More “Mozart in the Jungle”
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 that sought to close these gaps through health literacy initiatives. Much has changed Read More “Three Blueprints for Healing Rural America”
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 Canal began as Ferdinand de Lesseps’ engineering fantasy. It ended as the jugular Read More “Build It and They Will Come: Musk Just Bought the Sky”