A friend once gave me the best piece of advice: You can't control what happens. You can only control how you respond to it. These are...

I had an email conversation recently with my dear friend Evan, who is an economist.  He was outraged about how Trump was throwing out...

Donald Trump in cheese created for an RNC party at On Tap, a restaurant inside the Brewhouse Inn & Suites on 10th St. in Milwaukee....

Welcome to Message Monday! I got a great email recently from USCPR (US Campaign for Palestinian Rights). I am a supporter of theirs. ...

Welcome to Message Monday! Trump blames Biden for the inflation that is top of mind for many people, and they think the GOP is better on...

Welcome to Message Monday! I’m a big live theater fan.  I once served on the board of a phenomenal theater company in Chicago called...

Who knew? Welcome to Message Monday! According to Common Dreams, a new survey from the Cornell ILR Buffalo Co-Lab  shows that tenants are...

Welcome to Message Monday! Joe Biden needs to present info about what he would do with his next term, as well as his past...

Welcome to Message Monday! I thought the photo above, with an Eric Adams cut-out, was a cute and effective way to take the issue to him,...

Welcome to SWOT Sunday! From the Patriotic Millionaires and Jacobin to the New Republic, American Prospect, the Wall Street Journal and...

Welcome to Team Tuesday! Have you heard of the Rural Democracy Initiative?  I just learned about them. Where have they been all my life? ...

Welcome to Team Tuesday! I learned about Mr. Weiland from a story in the South Dakota Searchlight, via News From the States – an...

Welcome to Message Monday! David Hogg pops up often in my email box and my feed, and I’m always happy to see him. Today I saw a post from...

Welcome To Message Monday! I found an interesting theory about how we should radically rethink how we do political advertising. It comes...

Welcome to SWOT Sunday! Taxes can be complicated, but I vow to keep this discussion as simple as possible, and laser-focused on the...

Welcome to Message Monday! West Virginia’s beautiful land, and many of its people, have been sacrificed for coal mining since the...

Welcome to Message Monday! I just now learned about an extremely important 2023 study from Jacobin, ASU’s Center for Work and Democracy,...

Welcome to SWOT Sunday! These dueling visions are polar opposites, not only in terms of what (policy), but in who is putting them...

Last week I attended a conference at the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago. It was called “Bridging the Divide: Forging...

Welcome to Team Tuesday! Over the weekend, I talked about how a broad coalition made their state, Nebraska, one of the most recent to...