Democracy
The wisdom of Octavia Butler we need right now
Why continuing to try to predict the future in a moment of impossibly heavy uncertainty might be one of our keys to changing course.
Politics
Culture
Party and ideology in 2025
Who does the hyperpolarized, hyperpartisan narrative in American politics really benefit? And is it getting in our way of something better...
Weekend Edition: How we become 130M Democrats
The work of party building is always ongoing, but emerging from our current dysfunction to build something new requires a deep commitment to transform a party that has been stuck for...a while.
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Weekend Edition: 130M Democrats
The cracks are the map. Passive. Disconnected. Condescending. Exclusionary. Neoliberal. All solvable if we go straight at each of these perceptions or failures of the Democratic Party.
Ready for another way
The Democratic Party has been in the wilderness for a long time now. Perhaps the consequences are stark enough, the excuses flimsy enough that we can finally embrace real transformation.
A real solution buried in a War Game
The most important insight might not be anything that happens in the simulated Situation Room but what kept one of the characters from ending up on the wrong side of the "war".
Pause and shift (if you can)
Ending a year of "difficult" to begin a year of "dread"? How we might enter this new year in a way that might could lead to rebuilding some of what feels lost.
The Schadenfreude of the Speaker
As much fun as was had last week watching the hammering Speaker McCarthy took on the way to the gavel, if it really is "The People's House", then it's our house that's on fire. So what do we do?
Weekend Edition: A little bit, right now, everywhere, every day
The 2022-ness of what we're living through started well before this cycle, and we need to embrace both a longer horizon and new everyday, always-on approach to our civic life to find a new path.
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Learning while doing during the primaries
Is San Francisco's recall of their progressive district attorney revealing something important about the state of liberalism?
Weekend Edition: They cannot be shamed
History, culture, suffering, and how we might begin to find our way to a safer, freer future.
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Weekend Edition: Performance, not perfection, might be the enemy of the good
The failure of our leaders to understand their roles and govern is making us less safe and less free.