Big Yellow Taxi begins with a lament. Joni Mitchell warns that “you do not know what you’ve until it is… Read more
Category: Finance
Understanding the National Defense Authorization Act and Why This Year Is Different
For more than six decades, the National Defense Authorization Act has been one of the quiet wonders of American governance…. Read more
An Open Letter to the WNBA and Its Stakeholders
Commissioner Engelbert, WNBPA leadership, team owners, and members of the basketball community: I am writing as a longtime supporter of… Read more
The Day the People’s House Went Dark
Congress is supposed to argue. It is supposed to debate, negotiate, and fight like hell over ideas that affect millions… Read more
The Legal and the Low-Risk: The People Insurance Markets Can’t Afford to Lose
A late October evening in Denver, and a software designer named Marcus sits at his kitchen table scrolling through his… Read more
The Big Ten’s Payday Loan
College football functions as civic ritual as much as sport. The stadiums resemble cathedrals. The rituals resemble holidays. Generations of… Read more
The Last Train to Somewhere: Chicago Has a Transit Problem. Illinois Has a Math Problem.
Chicago has always had a kinetic pulse. Stand at any Loop corner and you feel it: the steel skeleton of… Read more
The Heartland Pays the Price of Tariffs
On a quiet stretch of Indiana farmland, the combines should be humming. September is harvest season, when grain silos begin… Read more
The New Labor Movement Is in Our Living Rooms
Something remarkable is happening. Across the country, renters are joining together to form tenant unions on a scale we have… Read more
The Future of AI Belongs to All of Us, Not Just Silicon Valley
Here’s what’s happening right now with artificial intelligence: A handful of giant corporations are seizing control of the most transformative… Read more