Before the election, I was on a panel discussing how its outcome might impact the pace of action on climate change. A consensus emerged that even though tackling climate change has become a partisan issue, many of the actions required […]
I write this list in the spirit of Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. Indeed, there is a lot of overlap, and I encourage you to read his list too!
Near-half want me dead.
It was all a joke they said.
Love pulls just ahead.
Sprinkled amidst the euphoria of Kamala Harris becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee for President were well-worn pebbles of angst…
The advent of the Internet in general, and tools like Google search in particular, heralded an age in which instant access to all the world’s knowledge would enhance discourse, remove the traditional gatekeepers to information, and lead to greater human flourishing.
It is for good reason that tax-exempt organizations are prohibited from partisan activity and limited in the advocacy in which they engage. As a matter of policy, democracies are right to exempt from taxation work that benefits the common good and not work that advances a particular politician or political agenda.
Unfortunately, many of us, especially activists and other change agents, understand far too little about what works and doesn’t, why some protests fizzle out and others lead to transformational change.
In an increasingly privatized world, it’s worth remembering that some of our most cherished and trusted institutions–NPR, PBS, the USPS, libraries, the Social Security Administration, credit unions–are nonprofit, not-for-profit, quasi-governmental, or governmental entities. And this is true even as trust […]
It’s Fall on an even-numbered year
which means an election looms, again.
We wander pumpkin patches, corn mazes, haunted
houses, make holiday plans, think what gifts to give.
In two weeks, voters across the country will decide whether to keep control of the House and Senate in the hands of Democrats, or give one or both chambers of Congress back to the party of Trump, insurrection, election denialism, […]