Navigating Public Policy, Technology, Health, Data, and Innovation for a Fairer Future
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”
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 to stop scrolling, but you did. You didn’t have to wrestle with complex Read More “The Power of Small Acts”
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 is moving? Upskilling offers one answer. It allows workers to deepen their expertise Read More “The Cost of Change Should Not Fall on Workers Alone”
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 was a $5.26 billion stake in Nvidia, the chip company whose processors power Read More “What Happens When Your 401(k) Speaks Fluent AI”
Most Americans don’t spend their mornings thinking about sovereign wealth funds. Yet this wonky Washington concept has suddenly entered our national conversation, thanks to recent government moves to buy stakes in companies like Intel and U.S. Steel. President Trump made it official in February with an executive order directing his administration to create a U.S. Read More “America’s Trillion-Dollar Temptation”
I was having coffee last week with a friend who owns a small marketing firm in Orlando. He’s the kind of guy who talks about “disrupting industries” and “scaling solutions,” the sort of entrepreneur who embodies everything Republicans say they love about American capitalism. But when our conversation turned to health insurance, his bravado disappeared Read More “The Quiet Crisis in America’s Waiting Rooms”