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Adaptive Hiring: A Human-Centered Way to Build Future-Ready Teams

Posted on January 8, 2026 Updated on January 8, 2026

Tuesday mornings in shared workspaces look the same across the country. Coffee cups gather beside laptops. Notifications blink with quiet… Read more

Posted in Education, Ethics, Policy, Rights and Equality     


How Immigration Policy Became a Health Care Shortage

Posted on January 2, 2026 Updated on January 2, 2026

On a quiet street in Shelby, North Carolina, a medical office sat ready for a colleague who would never arrive…. Read more

Posted in Foreign Policy, Healthcare, Policy     


The Machinery of Democracy Released in Hardback

Posted on December 25, 2025 Updated on December 25, 2025

The Machinery of Democracy, a new nonfiction work by Dr. Cary Woods, has been released in hardback. The book examines… Read more

Posted in Policy, Publications     


The Case for Shared Stewardship in Artificial Intelligence

Posted on December 22, 2025 Updated on December 22, 2025

American public life has a habit of turning every emerging technology into a cultural battleground. Railroads were once instruments of… Read more

Posted in Policy, Technology     


Who Is Rand Paul and Why You Want to Know

Posted on December 15, 2025 Updated on December 15, 2025

Politics tends to flatten people. Over time, complex lives get reduced to a handful of talking points, a voting record,… Read more

Posted in Ethics, Healthcare, Policy, Rights and Equality     


The Unlikely Dignity of Mike Pence

Posted on December 11, 2025 Updated on December 11, 2025

Hoosier politics has long operated on a kind of practical decency: the conviction that even when national passions run hot,… Read more

Posted in Ethics, Policy, Rights and Equality     


Big Yellow Taxi Economics: A Letter of Gratitude to Jerome Powell

Posted on December 10, 2025 Updated on December 10, 2025

Big Yellow Taxi begins with a lament. Joni Mitchell warns that “you do not know what you’ve until it is… Read more

Posted in Finance, Policy     


Understanding the National Defense Authorization Act and Why This Year Is Different

Posted on December 8, 2025 Updated on December 8, 2025

For more than six decades, the National Defense Authorization Act has been one of the quiet wonders of American governance…. Read more

Posted in Finance, Foreign Policy, Policy     


Why Energy Policy Feels Different When Winter Arrives

Posted on December 1, 2025 Updated on December 1, 2025

The first cold snap always carries a kind of civic honesty test. There is that familiar moment when the furnace… Read more

Posted in Climate, Homelessness, Policy     


An Open Letter to the WNBA and Its Stakeholders

Posted on November 19, 2025 Updated on November 19, 2025

Commissioner Engelbert, WNBPA leadership, team owners, and members of the basketball community: I am writing as a longtime supporter of… Read more

Posted in Finance, Policy, Rights and Equality, Sports     


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