Why some people get stuck outside longer Voice & Vision | Homelessness and the Public Commons, Part 3 | Vulnerability There’s a certain kind of homelessness conversation that sounds sympathetic but is actually a dodge. It goes like this: homelessness is a housing problem, full stop. That sentence contains truth. It’
Veterans
When service outlives the uniform Mostly True Stories | The Last Barstool Series, Part 4 | Belonging, purpose, and the quiet work I don’t go to the VFW anymore. But I think about it more than I expected to. Part 3, What Happened with the VFW Sometimes I wonder if it
Why homelessness grows at scale Voice & Vision | Homelessness and the Public Commons, Part 2 | Structural drivers Part 1 of this series, Homelessness is a Layered Problem. When homelessness rises in a region, people rush to the most dramatic explanations because dramatic explanations feel satisfying. They let you blame someone.
Homelessness
Why it grows even when everyone agrees it should not Voice & Vision | Homelessness and the Public Commons, Part 1 | The framework Homelessness is one of those issues that turns adults into warring tribes fast. Someone says housing, another says drugs, someone else says mental illness, yet others say crime,
Veterans
When the uniform came and the mission never returned Mostly True Stories | The Last Barstool Series, Part 3 | Purpose, drift, and the empty hall Catch up with part 1, The Disconnect at the VFW. The uniforms came off, but the structure stayed. The ranks, the rituals, the same stories told
How platforms, newsrooms, and government adapted after 2016 Voice & Vision | Moscow’s Mission, Part 4 | Labels, takedowns, and adaptation The last installment of this series, part 3: After the Click, discussed how the U.S. was affected by this assault. This time we discuss what the media and government
America became powerful by making real things, including lives that made sense. Voice & Vision | The Last Shift Series, Part 2 | Manufacturing, dignity, and the middle class In Part 1: The Last Shift, we stood at the factory gate and watched the lights dim. Automation turned a hundred jobs into
Critical Thinking
The Illusion of Research and the Comfort of Certainty Voice & Vision | How We Learned to Stop Thinking, Part 3 | Research, certainty, and comprehension If you missed part 2, you can find it here before diving in: How We Learned to Stop Thinking. Think about the last time you felt
Veterans
A veteran visits multiple VFW halls expecting connection and finds a pattern instead, service reduced to grievance, belonging turned into suspicion. This essay looks at what happens when structure outlives mission, and what it means to look for purpose beyond the past.
Why the Most Lasting Damage Happened After the Ballots Were Counted Voice & Vision | Moscow’s Mission, Part 3 Catch up with part 2 Moscow's Mission: Inside the Troll Farm. The most important effects of 2016 didn’t live in vote totals. They lived in what people paid