All Writings

I had the opportunity to join The Debtwire Muni Lowdown podcast to dive into some of the challenges and opportunities facing...

History doesn’t repeat itself, but sometimes it rhymes. The Roman Republic and the United States were both founded on the idea that no...

The American political conversation is, more often than not, a debate about federal power. We fixate on Washington—its budgets, its...

A nation’s strength is not just found in its history—it is built in its present. Throughout American history, the willingness to build...

Democracy isn’t a machine that runs on autopilot. It’s a fragile, living system that depends on institutions—those formal and informal...

In times of federal uncertainty, local governments bear an even greater responsibility to lead, innovate, and serve their citizens...

Resilience. It’s a word that’s been buzzing around our civic discourse a lot lately, and for good reason. In a world where the ground...

Suburban America, once the hallmark of post-war prosperity and middle-class idealism, faces a pressing challenge: maintaining economic...

America has a problem with fragmentation. We see it in our health care system, in our schools, in our infrastructure planning—and,...