I’ve written for HuffPost, Business Insider, Stanford Social Innovation Review, O’Reilly Digital Media, and other outlets. Here are some of those pieces:
Will you just “wait and see?” (HuffPost)
Have you ever wondered whether you would speak up if democracy came under attack, as it did in Europe in the 1930’s and 40’s? That question is being answered now.
America Is A Creed, Not a Tribe — And Too Few Americans Know Why That Matters (HuffPost)
You’re not an American because of your blood, or the soil on which you were born, or the religion you practice. You’re an American because you believe in the American creed. That’s the essential miracle of this country.
It Isn’t Just Trump: The Roots Of Democracy’s Crisis Are Many And Deep (HuffPost)
For a panel discussion on the crisis of democracy, I started a list of answers to the question, “How did we get here?” I was amazed at how fast that list grew.
A Prison Of Lies: How Misinformation Became A Multi-Billion Dollar Industry And Broke Democracy (HuffPost)
In America in recent decades, an industry of information counterfeiters has sprung up, and it’s making a few, unprincipled people very rich, at the expense of everyone else. And at the expense of democracy.
How Democrats Lost Their Base — And How They Can Get It Back (Business Insider)
Alas, Democrat, the problem is not with “these people.” The problem is that you no longer understand a big chunk of what should be your political base. How could that happen? It’s a question of Ideas, Interests and Identity.
Does Your Backbone Organization Have Backbone? (Stanford Social Innovation Review)
Any enterprise needs an executive branch—people who are accountable and who can make the necessary decisions to deliver results. But the prospect of an executive backbone is scary for many nonprofits, not because they don’t want to make progress, but because of a big, structural problem with nonprofit collaboration: a systemically driven misalignment of interests.