December 2022

With new legislative sessions starting around the country next year, there’s an opportunity to reset the debate on election reform.

Ghosting in the workplace is an ever-growing concern for employers. The number of candidates who don’t show up to scheduled interviews, don’t arrive on the first day of work, or quit without providing any notice continues to increase.

Prediction markets, like any markets, are real-time aggregators of information. Not just of raw data but of overlaid analysis, tinged – for better or worse – with intuition and emotion.

Against widespread election denialism, a new and possibly more serious threat to our representative democracy looms, and it is being played out before the U.S. Supreme Court: Moore v. Harper.

Here in Manhattan, mayor Eric Adams is under attack for his approach to what we’ve come to call homelessness. This week the mayor announced the city would begin hospitalizing more of the population that is in “psychiatric crisis.” In reading the new directive, I was surprised by how little of a policy shift it should represent.

Given today’s current politically polarized society, golf allows two people the chance to talk things through. Golf is more than a game; it’s a regulated platform, more personal and, I’d argue, miles more effective than social media. It’s a vehicle, if not for solving problems, at least for a beginning.

Those who want to overthrow a tyrannical government better have enough firepower to win because prosecutors won’t have sympathy with their patriotism or interpretation of the intent of the 2nd Amendment. 

We need some distance, some sobriety, to see the discourse clearly, and ask a few simple questions: Why is this dinner, attended by a proven New White Nationalist, joined by guests who themselves are New White Nationalists, to talk about their New White Nationalist ideas, a story at all?

A Florida woman is suing Kraft Heinz for allegedly misleading advertising based on the time the box says it takes to microwave a cup of macaroni and cheese.