Predictors of America's future fall into two camps: the extrapolators and the leapers. The extrapolators take what exists and slowly turn the dial in order to learn what's next. The leapers posit a ...

When asked to write about the shape of American democracy in 2050, my impulse was to go grim. Our dystopian present is not lacking in democracy-warping horrors—global warming, rising authoritarianism, ...

Structural reforms like ranked-choice voting could take decades. The right leader could expedite the process and save the republic in the meantime. It’s 2050. Does the United States of America as We ...

My mom's another good example of a "good guy" boomer - she's been politically active her entire life, was one of the leaders of the ERA movement in Washington State back in the early 70s' (one of my ...

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