On a quiet stretch of Indiana farmland, the combines should be humming. September is harvest season, when grain silos begin… Read more
Category: Policy
Tariffs, Turbulence, and a Tumbling Job Market
Eighteen months ago, I wrote about an economy trapped in perpetual limbo, like a plane hovering above the runway, promising… Read more
The Battle Over Healthcare Insurance Subsidies
Rep. Jen Kiggans of Virginia is hardly the person you’d expect to be leading the charge to save Obamacare subsidies…. Read more
Three Blueprints for Healing Rural America
The story of rural healthcare in America is always a story of distance. Distance between patients and providers. Distance between… Read more
Build It and They Will Come: Musk Just Bought the Sky
The plumbing of progress is always invisible until it becomes indispensable. When telegraph cables first crossed the Atlantic, they seemed… Read more
The Power of Small Acts
This year, my writing here reached 100,000 impressions for the first time. But that number tells only part of the… Read more
The Cost of Change Should Not Fall on Workers Alone
The rules of employment are shifting under workers’ feet. Artificial intelligence isn’t just automating tasks; it is redrawing the boundaries… Read more
What Happens When Your 401(k) Speaks Fluent AI
Margaret Chen has spent thirty-two years teaching fourth grade in San Bernardino. She retired last June with a comfortable pension… Read more
The Quiet Crisis in America’s Waiting Rooms
I was having coffee last week with a friend who owns a small marketing firm in Orlando. He’s the kind… Read more
Why Your Utility Bill is Funding the AI Boom
They don’t look like much from the highway. Vast anonymous boxes with no windows, buzzing quietly behind fences and guards…. Read more