OKLAHOMA—On April 2, an estimated 30,000 Oklahoma teachers walked out of schools across the state, some traveling hundreds of miles…
Dayton Is Making the Library a Must-Visit Destination
With recording studios, dazzling art installations, and rooms equipped for virtual reality, the city is future-proofing an oft-neglected urban amenity.…
National Lampoon: The Final Edition
Check out National Lampoon’s The Final Edition. My sketch is at 26m. Thank you for listening. Please consider sharing The Final…
America Is Waking Up to Being Wasteful with Plastic
It’s time to kiss the plastics goodbye. No, not the Mean Girls; I mean the plastics you use every day:…
It’s Time to Meet Regenerative Fiber
Do you know where your clothes came from? No, not the store, the label, or the brand. Or China, India,…
ECONOMY The Tech Moguls Driving Mass Layoffs in the Economy Want Universal Basic Income as a Cure—Should Progressives Be Cheering?
Driverless cars! IBM Watson! News-writing robots! Amazon Go! The future is here, friends, and it apparently excludes humans. People are preparing for the…
Cooperative Banking for Black Lives
MINNEAPOLIS—On an unseasonably warm Friday in late January, African-American business owners, activists, advocates, musicians, politicians and artists toasted with a…
Is higher education worth the price tag?
If you want a higher education in the United States, you need to have money. The average cost of a college…
Dark Communities are Healthier Communities
Have you ever seen the Milky Way? The very galaxy we are a part of? I have. But I had…
Congestion Pricing: Regressive tax or saving grace?
Cab driver Doug Schifter committed suicide last week, severely distraught due to the crushing weight of the gig economy. Uber,…
Smart cities look to their citizens, not multi-national corporations
U.S. cities, it seems, sometimes are setting themselves up for decay, with big tax giveaways, ever-rising prices and systems that put the bulk of…
Chattanooga and Detroit: Opinions on my work
As a writer, it’s always nice when my work inspires thoughtful commentary. A piece I wrote for NextCity is now…