Last year, I wrote about the mounting risks of student loan delinquency. It was bad then. It is worse now. The American promise was simple: work hard, get […]
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The Bridge We’re Building
They say when the economy contracts, it takes a while for the layoffs to reach the surface. But in Indiana, they’ve arrived. Ivy Tech, our statewide community college […]
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Art’s Journey to Wisdom Travels the Path of a Public Good
Modern economies reward efficiency, not reflection. Our institutions—schools, platforms, governments—are calibrated to deliver outcomes, track progress, and benchmark success. In this landscape, the arts are often treated as […]
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How Measles Came Back to America
It began with a cough. Then a fever. By the time the red rash appeared on Ian Rojas’s neck, the pediatric unit at Dallas Methodist had already started […]
Education / Technology
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The Future of Labor Is Already Clocked In
In 2024, a junior associate at a boutique law firm in Chicago began training a GPT model to write like his managing partner. There was no directive. No […]
Climate / Education / Ethics / Policy
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The Broken Bridge Between Research and Policy
Most people believe that if a study proves something works, the system will change. That is not how it goes. We live in a country where the machinery […]
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Why Our Cities Are Quietly Breaking Down
There is a quiet, slow erosion happening across American cities. It is not an earthquake or a sudden crash. It is more like rot in the beams of […]
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From Gasoline Alley to the Grid: What GM’s Formula 1 Engine Means for American Manufacturing
When you live in Indianapolis, motorsport is more than spectacle, it’s civic texture. On Memorial Day weekend, the roar from the Brickyard isn’t just noise. It’s history echoing […]
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America’s Innovation Economy Runs on Unpaid Labor
A funny thing happened on the way to the startup revolution. We built an entire mythology around the entrepreneur, but forgot to fund the human being behind it. […]
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Mentorship as Infrastructure
Somewhere between staying current and staying employed, there’s a gap most people don’t talk about. It’s the space between what you used to be great at and what […]