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How simplicity can thrive in a complex world
Earlier this month most of you completed your taxes. Probably either you had someone else do it, or you spent hours navigating the complexity of the…
11 years ago
Our Kids
Back in 1995, Robert Putnam argued in his bestselling book, Bowling Alone, that civic life in America was declining. That we had reached a kind of a…
11 years ago
The new white, middle class, suburban heroin addict
For years we’ve had just one image of the drug wars. Images conjured up from movies like the Godfather or Scarface, or reading about the LA battles …
11 years ago
Why men fight and why we love to watch
Hundred of years ago if men wanted to settle a personal matter, even a political one, they picked up swords or guns and dueled their way to resolutio…
11 years ago
Water in all the wrong places
Those of us in California know all too well what’s its like to be living in the midst of a drought. Gov. Jerry Brown recently put in place restricti…
11 years ago
Barney Frank
One of the big things missing in politics today is historical and institutional memory. The sense of collegiality, of institutional respect and the …
11 years ago
The capital of 20th century urbanism
Sometimes, even the most interesting of subjects are presented to us in more or less predictable or at least accepted ways. It’s rare that a work of…
11 years ago
We are in the Golden Age of Public Shaming
There once was a time, back in the 18th and 19th centuries, when public shaming was the norm. The stockades, corporal punishment, torture marks and …
11 years ago
In Defense of Liberal Education
The rate of voter participation in America continues to decline. Yes, some of it is our politics today. But another part of it just may be a failure…
11 years ago
RoadTrip Nation's ROADMAP
Everyday we hear and read more about how life is changing. Probably while we were sleeping last night, someone came up with an app that will alter t…
11 years ago