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

Questions of Civic Proportions: What will we do with our "Two Americas" story this time?

My Fellow Citizens, “Two Americas” has been a theme in our political discussion for decades. Headlines in January warned that a “clash of Two Americas” was real and could get worse [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/03/trump-era-division-america].” That’s a tale of Republicans vs. Democrats. It reads