While much of what’s been written recently about housing in America are the exploding costs and great value of ownership, between 2010 and 2019, the number of renters in the country grew twice as fast as the homeowner population. In fact, renters now make up a majority of residents in large American cities. The …
The last two years has demonstrated that unanticipated events, like a pandemic, can force drastic changes in the way that we live. Climate science has been warning for decades now that we are on an unsustainable path and yet we seem incapable, or unwilling, to confront this reality. More intense storms, raging wildfires, climate …
When you think about police reform and where the greatest responsibility for it rests, the institutions that come to mind are local governments, state governments and Congress. Rarely does the U.S. Supreme Court and its role get much mention or discussion. The legal justification for things like stop and frisk, …
Money talks in Washington DC and China and Russia sure have their attention. not the voters There exists a powerful lever the West can use to weaken authoritarian governments and stop the global backslide of democracy. Why we choose not to use it speaks powerfully to the forces at play in our …
Death in America is undergoing a quiet revolution. You now can have your body frozen, dissected, composted, dissolved or tanned. Your family can incorporate your remains into jewelry, shotgun shells, paperweights and artwork. Cremations have more than doubled and will reach nearly 70 percent by 2030. As the grip of traditional religion is …
The unipolar superpower moment America had after the fall of the Soviet Union has ended without many of us sensing a peace dividend. We are now returning to a period of great power competition, with our fiercest competitor being China. The question before us is how to contain their growing economic and military ambitions before …
Some say geography is destiny. While that may be too simplistic a way to look at the world, there is much you can tell about a nation’s fortunes based upon the neighborhood in which it resides. Take the United States, for example. We are isolated from potential aggressors, have unique positioning between …
There is much confusion as to how a new technology could have been developed so quickly in response to a novel coronavirus which came to be known as COVID-19. The truth is that the messenger RNA technology was in the works for decades and that the release of the sequence of the new …
In this podcast, we wonder aloud as to whether America has even to this day confronted the harsh truth that the country we know today was founded on the violent dispossession of Indigenous people. While we seem to be having a moment of reckoning as it relates to the issue of slavery and its …
In the past, there was a mythology built around the concept of the millionaire next door. It was the assuming couple who brought little attention to themselves. They didn’t drive flashy cars or exhibit a taste for bling. As two-income professionals, however, they had a nice home and learned the lessons of compound interest …