Category Archives: Policy

Definitions: Hypernormalization & Hypernormal

Hypernormal (noun)

An accelerated version of reality where the outlook is bleak, and yet there is no ability to change course. Continue reading

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Untangling: What’s Happening in Chicago? How Much Is Violence an Issue?

A friend and I can’t tell the real impact of violence in Chicago – how can we describe what’s going on? Continue reading

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Trust: “We’re not following rules, but expect you to.”

There are many great political and social points in Catton’s histories of the American Civil War.  In his 1961 book The Coming Fury, he discusses how Southern plantation authors were going to Union generals and asking to have their slaves returned. … Continue reading

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Believe the Team that is Doing It

Better batteries will definitely impact the automotive market, but there are a wide range of opinions as to how.  The US Department of Energy estimated that nearly 1.2 million such vehicles were part of the American automotive fleet as of … Continue reading

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Labor Day: Technology, Trade and Labor

Yet the campaign had completely failed to do what a political campaign is supposed to do – bring the nation to full awareness and earnest discussion of its most crucial issues and lead to a verdict that would put those issues … Continue reading

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