The manufacturing and packaging of homogeneous experience is what politics in America is about.

Young voters are crucial. The trend over recent years has been for them to drift away. So anything that gets young voters interested in the electoral process not only has an immediate effect, but has an effect for years and years.

It's quintessentially American to transform your family.

If, like many others, you are concerned social media is making people and cultures shallow, I propose we teach more people how to swim and together explore the deeper end of the pool.

It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.

Finding a name for something is a way of conjuring its existence, of making it possible for people to see a pattern where they didn't see anything before.

1947 America blasted off.