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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     


What We Learned by Watching What Didn’t Break

Posted on December 26, 2025 Updated on December 26, 2025

Every December, we make the same mistake. We treat the year as something to summarize rather than something to absorb…. Read more

Posted in Education, Ethics, Rights and Equality     


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     


Hope as a Political Act, A Thanksgiving Reflection

Posted on November 27, 2025 Updated on November 27, 2025

People gather in kitchens across America today. Someone is checking the turkey, another is trying to find the good plates,… Read more

Posted in Education, Ethics, Rights and Equality     


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     


When Disinformation Becomes a Business Model

Posted on November 4, 2025 Updated on November 4, 2025

The video opens the way these things usually do. A blurred screenshot. A whispery narrator. The suggestion of a hidden… Read more

Posted in Ethics, Policy, Rights and Equality     


The NBA’s Global Bet: How Basketball Became America’s Most Valuable Export

Posted on October 22, 2025 Updated on October 22, 2025

The NBA tipped off another season last night, and for those of us who have followed the game since Reggie… Read more

Posted in Media, Rights and Equality, Sports     


The New Labor Movement Is in Our Living Rooms

Posted on September 25, 2025 Updated on September 25, 2025

Something remarkable is happening. Across the country, renters are joining together to form tenant unions on a scale we have… Read more

Posted in Ethics, Finance, Homelessness, Rights and Equality     


The One Question That Helped a Small Business Stop Losing Good People

Posted on August 14, 2025 Updated on August 15, 2025

Jenna runs a 35-person coffee roastery in the foothills of North Carolina. It’s the kind of place where everyone knows… Read more

Posted in Ethics, Policy, Rights and Equality     


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