There is a woman named Renee who has worked as a unit secretary at a regional hospital for nineteen years…. Read more
Category: Education
The Price of Being Seen: How Open Access Publishing Is Sorting American Science
A recent LinkedIn post by Dr. Jillian Goldfarb called attention to an invoice most of us never see. She had… Read more
Mapping the Mechanics of Power: A New Civic Tool for Midterms
Democracy is one of the most discussed subjects in American public life and one of the least examined. Citizens are… Read more
The Things That Still Work and the People Who Keep Them Working
There are moments in a long project when it is worth pausing to look around and take stock of who… Read more
The Show Must Still Go On
Every generation is convinced that the arts are in decline. People say nobody goes to plays anymore. Nobody listens to… Read more
The Knowledge We Build Together
There is a certain kind of American story that never quite makes the front page. It has no villain, no… Read more
The Missing Language of AI Accountability
Artificial intelligence now shapes decisions about jobs, loans, healthcare, and education. When those systems carry bias, the consequences are real… Read more
What We Quietly Teach Ourselves
There is a phrase that lands differently depending on where you sit in the American political conversation. Say “social engineering”… Read more
The Ninth Inning of American Patience
The game unfolds the way it always has, without apology, without hurry, without the slightest concern for what the rest… Read more
The Machinery of Democracy: Literature as a Software Service and a Public Good
In 2020, Kanye West tried to get on the presidential ballot in Wisconsin. He needed 2,000 signatures. He submitted 2,422…. Read more