Today, companies have an immediate opportunity. Americans have an outsized appetite to take action on issues and drive change. They expect brands to do the same – and to engage with them as consumers and employees. … At a time when Americans are losing faith in institutions to drive change, […] Read more »
Infrastructure Failure Underscores Government’s Problems
On May 22, the president and congressional leaders met to discuss infrastructure — one of the American people’s highest priorities for their elected representatives. Within 10 minutes, however, the meeting was called off. Nothing was accomplished. The exact circumstances of what happened on May 22 aren’t as important as what […] Read more »
With His Job Gone, an Autoworker Wonders, ‘What Am I as a Man?’
In the weeks since he lost his job at the car plant, Rick Marsh has blasted Pink Floyd while cleaning the house. He has watched the cat watching the birds. He has smoked cigarettes out the sliding glass door. He has watched Motor Trend, a TV network about cars. He […] Read more »
With the 2020 Democratic Field Set, Candidates Begin the Races Within the Race
Joseph R. Biden Jr. has built an early lead in the month since he entered the presidential campaign, confidently projecting himself as the Democratic front-runner and the candidate best positioned to defeat President Trump. But beneath the surface of a seemingly placid race is a much more volatile contest, as […] Read more »
Why the Internet Is So Polarized, Extreme, and Screamy
… Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter are many things at once—a modern railroad crossed with a modern telephone network, mixed with a modern phone book, on top of a modern Borgesian library. Above all, social media are a mechanism for allowing people to find like-minded individuals and to […] Read more »
2020 Democrats face 2012 GOP challenges
It’s been a month now since Joe Biden announced he was running for president and the Delaware Democrat has been sitting atop the polls since then. The Biden boomlet has come despite conventional wisdom that said the candidates on left of the Democratic Party held all the energy going into […] Read more »