Conversations that aim to bring passion and perspective to the big issues of the day.

A couple of weekends ago, I went with friends to the Power to the People music festival in suburban Maryland. I was there primarily to see bands play, but part of the goal of the show was to raise ...

The people have been clamoring for updated Slow Boring donation recommendations, and today we’re delivering. This was a little slow to come together because we were waiting for a certain number of ...

Debating abstractions is difficult and frustrating, and the discourse about “wokeness” and “cancel culture” has become a snakepit of semantic debates, bad-faith actors, and people of goodwill talking ...

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day to all who celebrate (or Columbus Day for those so inclined, but in D.C. it’s Indigenous Peoples’ Day). Something we like to do on these federal holidays is bring an ...

I spoke recently to a group of people that included an elected official who’s likely to run for governor in the upcoming cycle. One topic that came up was the relative merits of different theories ...

Doing the podcast rounds to promote “One Billion Americans,” I was pleasantly surprised by how frequently I was able to get to yes with conservative hosts about immigration. I would tell them that I ...

If you are terminally online, you may have noticed recently the cavalcade of progressive-minded posters slagging Senator Elissa Slotkin for saying that the use of the term “oligarchy” by Bernie ...

America’s top priority in the Middle East should be decreasing our involvement in the region. President after president keeps vowing to do that, they’ve all failed, and now Trump has arguably failed ...