Taking a weekly look at what might go right, rather than focusing relentlessly on all that is going wrong.
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"Nobody wants to see headlines about incremental progress. That's the bias that gets us in trouble."
This week’s episode of What Could Go Right? is a little different. Rather than a traditional interview, I’m sharing a live conversation I moderated at the Aspen Ideas Festival with historian Greg Jackson and author Steven Johnson about a se...
There is no such thing as safe
Bayer and the ordinary consumer won. The Make America Healthy Again movement and trial lawyers lost. That’s a simple heuristic for understanding the Supreme Court’s 7-2 decision last week in Monsanto v. Durnell. The upshot is that plaintiff...
Happy Birthday America. You don’t look a day over 249.
America’s 250th anniversary has arrived at a moment when our country feels deeply divided over the story we want to tell about ourselves: Are we a nation defined by its extraordinary ideals or by the ways we’ve failed to live up to them? To...
“It’s a put-your-money-where-your-mouth-is moment.”
In this week’s episode of What Could Go Right?, I had the opportunity to discuss one of my favorite topics — why it’s counterproductive to think of the economy as a single number rather than a set of behaviors — with a uniquely qualified co...
“We are all in the same wagon, and we need to be driving it together.”
Free expression is one of those ideals that Americans love to claim as foundational, if not sacred. Yet it seems every generation convinces itself that its version is uniquely under assault. In this week’s episode of What Could Go Right?, I...
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Zachary Karabell, a.k.a. The Edgy Optimist, is the founder of The Progress Network. He is also is a public speaker, a recovering academic, a former finance exec, and an occasional entrepreneur who has written at least one too many books.
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