https://quonline.quinnipiac.edu/blog/cybersecurity-changing-roles.php There are stories aplenty about the cyber crime of our era: ransomware hackers making demands of cities and towns throughout America. In exchange for cryptocurrency, the hackers will unencrypted data needed to run your municipality. You’re the mayor: what do you do? Taxes can’t be collected, bills can’t be paid, payrolls can’t be met …
https://www.amazon.com/Long-Southern-Strategy-American-Politics-ebook/dp/B07RWP3D3V In the new book, ‘The Long Southern Strategy’, professors Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields brilliantly unpack what was generally considered a 1960’s strategy by the Republican Party in the Nixon era to win over disaffected white voters in the previously Democratic stronghold of the American South. To usher in this profound …
https://www.amazon.com/Shadowlands-American-Reckonings-Oregon-Standoff/dp/1635571200 In 2016, a group of armed, divinely inspired libertarian protesters led by Amman Bundy occupied the Malheur(translated: Bad Luck) National Wildlife Refuge in the high desert of eastern Oregon. Encamped in the shadowlands of the republic, they insisted that the Federal government had no right to own public land. Were they heroes or …
https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Domain-Defending-Companies-Ourselves/dp/052556196X ‘The Fifth Domain’ is a term the Pentagon uses for cyberspace, following the progression of locations for battle–land, sea, air and space. The key issue in cyberspace, like all of warfare, relates to the calculations about offensive and defensive capabilities among the actors and the readiness to deploy a country’s take down capabilities …
https://www.itsuptous.org/ Honesty requires that I admit to what a bloody mess mess my generation, the baby boomers, is leaving the many generations that follow. As if a despoiled and roiling planet isn’t enough, add to their burdens a swelling, and unsustainable, level of national debt. And, yet, mum’s the word. Nobody talks about the …
https://www.amazon.com/Whistleblowers-Honesty-America-Washington-Trump/dp/0300186886 The concept of a whistleblower is a unique American innovation, meant to check corrupt power and help us give protection and sanctity to our ideals in practice, not just in theory. Whistleblowing is a cousin to civil disobedience, but is done within the system through long established tradition and laws. We’re all getting …
https://research.unc.edu/2016/07/07/mark-holmes-appointed-new-director-unc-sheps/ Healthcare delivery and cost concerns are top of mind in our political debate. Nowhere is that concern greater than in rural America. If you live in remote places in the heartland and the South, the likelihood that the hospital closest to your home may be shuttered or downsized is growing greater each year. …
https://www.amazon.com/Entrenchment-Wealth-Constitution-Democratic-Societies/dp/0300238479 In a democratic society, like ours, how easy or hard is it to upend power and economic disparities, when those who have the most to lose also have the most power? It’s a tricky question which Professor Paul Starr, a Pulitzer Prize winning author, attempts to answer in his new book, ‘Entrenchment’. Let’s be …
https://press.princeton.edu/titles/13485.html If you listen to President Trump this is the best economy in years, perhaps, ever. We have low unemployment numbers and a great uptick on Wall Street. If that’s the case, why does he keep pressuring the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates in what the Fed Chairman, Jerome Powell, says is not such …
https://camd.northeastern.edu/faculty/dan-kennedy/ There are alarming reports from all over the country about the demise of local newspapers and the sprouting up of local ‘news deserts’, where finding out about what’s going on in your town or city is becoming increasingly more difficult. With it comes a lack of accountability on the part of local officials as …