Nov 24, 2020
Finding the Hope in this Charlie Brown Christmas Tree Holiday Season In the middle of the outrage about the election and resurging pandemic, another outrage bubbled quietly. Apple TV bought…
Oct 30, 2020
Whack-A-Mole and Mental Health Every time we think we are seeing the beginning of the end of COVID-19, there’s a new wrinkle that reminds us we may not even be…
Sep 29, 2020
What Needs Changing When Everything’s Changing At the start of our September 24 webinar on “Higher Education and the Future of Work,” Hope Williams, President of North Carolina’s Independent Colleges…
Aug 28, 2020
A Few Sips from an Oasis of Optimism If we are to believe the predictions, we are heading toward a 10 week napalming of negative campaign ads: from radio and…
Jul 30, 2020
Lifting Up the Laboratories of Democracy The past twenty years have given all of us a steady set of reminders of what it means to live interconnected and interdependent in…
Jun 29, 2020
A Declaration of Interdependence A lot of people have been doing a lot of thinking about freedom and independence in the past month. It is the issue of the moment.…
May 29, 2020
Grieving Together Over the past 10 weeks, the Institute for Emerging Issues has been talking with our statewide and local partners to try to understand this confusing crisis we are…
Apr 29, 2020
“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” –Winston Churchill, 1942 Dear Friends: None…
Mar 30, 2020
We’re All in Improv Now One of my family’s favorite shows is Whose Line Is It Anyway? The show, for those of you who haven’t seen it, involves actors reacting, in…
Feb 25, 2020
A Bit of a Choice 0 or 1. At the end of the day, every line of every piece of code comes down to that. Yes or no. A or…