Automation will displace half of all workers. What needs to be done?
Bill Kelvie, April 18th, 2021 Over half of all births to young adults in the United States today occur outside of marriage, and most are unplanned. This trend is driving a growing class divide. At the top are “planners,” who
As the Biden administration takes office, we begin our return to multilateral approaches to problem-solving in a complex world, but many may not be on board. We need to recognize and tend to their grievances. In the past, the
A future shortfall in Americans trained in science and engineering bodes ill not only for our economic well-being, but for our national security as well. – Arthur Herman, “America’s High-Tech STEM Crisis,” Forbes International competitors are chipping away at America’s
“If the U.S. [continues] to grow … crops of poor, desperate, dissatisfied, nomadic, miserable-waged populations … then our republican experiment notwithstanding all its surface-successes, is at heart an unhealthy failure.” – Walt Whitman With the approval of Covid-19 vaccines
Background: For decades the United States has been unable to reverse its once proudly held lead in the education of its citizens. A number of major initiatives such as No Child Left Behind have been created and well funded but
The United States pioneered universal free primary education to provide literacy to its newly enfranchised citizens. We flourished. It then led the world in the industrial era on the strength of the free high schools that provided skills to build
“The line between disorder and order lies in logistics.” – Sun Tzu As the Democrat and Republican parties wrap up their conventions, they will embark on their campaigns for President amid a national public health emergency. Instead of traditional
Missed opportunity to suppress the transmission of COVID-19 and save lives “I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality, and then in retrospect.” – Sophocles, Oedipus Rex After initial stumbles, the response to the COVID-19 crisis seemed straight forward.
“He was reluctant to open it, for once such a thing is opened, it cannot be shut again” – Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton It has been over two months since we’ve gone into self-isolation. While the daily
“The journey a ponderous one at times, long and slow but necessarily so” – Lockdown In mid-January, we began to wonder whether a modern-day Oedipus Rex would confront the U.S., but concerns were cast aside. Since the beginning of the