And there’s almost nothing we can do about it.

Fifty years ago, my father served as the Republican minority leader in the deep-blue Massachusetts House of Representatives. But during his time in office, he managed to create jobs, protect reproductive rights and author a landmark environmental bill that protects Massachusetts wetlands to this day. (Did I mention he was Republican?) That solutions-minded approach was […]

Asset-limited, income-constrained, employed – ‘ALICE’ is everywhere. Let’s do something about that.

Gardi Sugdub is a tiny island off Panama’s Caribbean coast that is jammed from end to end with housing for about 1,300 members of the indigenous Guna people. The island is sinking beneath rising waters as the planet warms. So Panama has built an inland housing development for the entire population. They’ll move into their […]

These are trying times for the Commission on Presidential Debates.