Questions of Civic Proportions: Can failure help us think in complete pictures?

My Fellow Citizens, It would be absurd to send a normal newsletter this week. Luckily, my family only suffered inconveniences during this winter storm in Texas. These inconveniences, however, are still best understood as the failure of government. Texans died this week or spent their days panicking over the threat

Surviving Election 2020: How will you resist the "prophets of doom?"

Surviving Election 2020: How will you resist the “prophets of doom?” Frederick Douglass’s vision for the United States in 1869 can help. Like everyone else, I’m trying to distract myself from the headlines. I have always been serious about following the news as a concerned citizen, but the