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(Part I and II of the series can be read here and here) No political party of consequence in the United States has ever been single-issue. American electoral laws dictate that whoever gets one [...]

(Part I of the series can be read here) Starting within minutes of the January 6 riots, a variety of tech platforms began blocking posts by President Donald Trump. Within three days nearly all [...]

Let me start of by saying that in an advanced democracy like the United States, political violence must never be tolerated. We have institutions and courts and elections expressly to manage our [...]

COVID-19’s Thanksgiving surge is upon us. We’re now facing record cases, hospitalizations and deaths and will continue at least through the end of January 2021. But [...]

It is a rare bit of good news we have to share in general, and especially in 2020, so we’re taking it! Less than a year after the broader world found out about an emerging new coronavirus [...]

Part I of this newsletter published a week ago, before we had enough U.S. states reporting election results to call the race. Now, barring something truly odd, Joe Biden has won a more than [...]

So…we had an election. It has gone down to the wire. At the time of this writing mid-day November 4 the votes are still being counted. America’s politics have significantly de-matured since [...]

In my latest dispatch, I discuss the resources I look at when analyzing the current snapshots of where we are in the corona pandemic, as well as where I think we’re headed this Fall and [...]

The previous two dispatches touched on the best-case scenario and the “not good” scenario, and why both indicate the public health response and the economic [...]

There are many reasons why we should not assume a vaccine will return life to normal. I discussed some of these in the first part of this dispatch on the best-case scenario. But it is more [...]