Middling.Industries

Five Reasons Chicago’s Coming Election Will Indicate America’s Future

March 31, 2019March 31, 2019

Chicago mayoral candidates Lori Lightfoot and Toni Preckwinkle. Credit: Mike Fourcher and WBEZ Unless you’re a local, American mayoral elections can seem provincial and quaint. “How could a contest for...

American Politics

For Chicago: Preckwinkle For Mayor, Conyears-Ervin For Treasurer

March 26, 2019March 26, 2019

Embed from Getty Images There’s truism about politics: campaigning and governing are totally different skills, and just because you’re good at one, doesn’t mean you’re good at the other. Campaigning...

Foreign Report

Four Non-Americans’ Views of America

March 24, 2019March 24, 2019

University of Wisconsin-Madison's Bascom Hall. You can study here and get smart, but you can't stay. (Credit: Richard Hurd/Flickr) Listening to non-American friends living overseas, the United States seems like...

American Politics

Can America Be A Welcoming Country Again?

March 17, 2019March 25, 2019

The Statue of Liberty and downtown Manhattan. (Credit: EAS ART/Flickr) A successful man in his early 40’s, working in an industry he loves, Faisal Siddiqui is the first to tell...

Foreign Report

Four Reports From Abroad

March 11, 2019March 17, 2019

The American consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. (From NBC News) For Americans living overseas, the rest of the world’s reality is difficult to escape, since they’re swimming in it daily. I...

Personal

The Death of Adventure

March 3, 2019March 3, 2019

Above, the Hungarian Parliament in Budapest, where I've got to get to at some point. Lately my idle moments have been spent surfing Orbitz, Hotels.com and every manner of travel...