Education will lay the foundation for the future — for better or worse.
Read More »Time for an Academy of Public Service
The social capital that sustains political visions and engagements has been allowed to depreciate as we have been waging a cultural war amongst ourselves since the late 1960s.
Read More »Young: Reforming our dysfunctional democracy
Where like-minded people are put together to make a majority in one district, other, dissenting people living in that district suffer from discrimination and are denied power because of their political beliefs.
Read More »Young: Hillary and the polarization of American culture
Hillary Clinton again is recreating her persona with a view toward self-advancement.
Read More »Young: Republican death wish
At their Rochester Convention last weekend, it seems Minnesota Republicans just re-elected Gov. Mark Dayton and U.S. Sen. Al Franken.
Read More »Young: ‘The evil that men do lives after them…’
The evil of segregation that the U.S. Supreme Court highlighted in Brown v. Board of Education was the cultural power that flows from legalization of norms.
Read More »Young: For a Ph.D. in politics, read Shakespeare
William Shakespeare has bequeathed us a treasure-trove of wisdom and insight.
Read More »Young: Caritas and charter schools
Educational achievement is ultimately a personal responsibility of the student, but it is also a public responsibility to educate well those who will grow up to contribute one way or another to the successes and failures of our community.
Read More »Young: Friendship is the Golden Rule for excellent politics
The meetings of minds, or “deals,” are the mother’s milk of sustainable constitutional democracy.
Read More »Young: Nowhere man
Putin’s clever and opportunistic seizure of Crimea may stand as a turning point in history’s evaluation of the Obama presidency.
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