How Business Leaders Can Contribute to Civic Engagement This Election

Since states around the country began offering early voting in mid-September, inspiring images of citizens lining up to exercise their franchise have become commonplace. In some cities, they’re showing up well before dawn to claim their place in line. In others, they endure rainstorms or turn the wait in line into an outdoor dance party.  The electorate’s enthusiasm extends to mail-in…

Mike Bloomberg speech on Trump’s Job Performance

Mike Bloomberg on Trump’s Job Performance

So often people talk about the Democratic Party as the party of pluralist, pie-in-the-sky idealism and the Republican Party as the party of practical, results-driven business. At last night’s Democratic National Convention, though, one of the world’s most successful, results-driven business leaders, Michael Bloomberg, made some key points. Bloomberg, of course, is not just a great…

Donald Trump, the Disease President

The Disease President

Since taking office in 2017, Donald Trump has repeatedly insisted he’s on the verge of replacing the extremely popular Affordable Care Act with “something so much better.” Usually, he claims the timetable for unveiling his healthcare plan is “about two weeks.” Last month Trump was at it again. “We’re signing a health-care plan within two weeks, a full and complete…

Patriotic pins that say, "United We Stand"

United We Stand

From the moment Donald Trump announced his presidential campaign in June 2015, I’ve been a Never Trumper. That was because he’d spent zero minutes of his life as a public servant — and virtually every minute of his life engaged in narcissistic self-promotion. He started out slapping his name onto skyscrapers and casinos, and then less grandly,…

Donald Trump's Big, Beautiful Wall Calendar 2020

Donald Trump is Seriously, Literally Absurd

During the 2016 presidential campaign, a truism emerged that the best way to understand Donald Trump is to take him seriously, not literally. This has always struck me as nonsense, for two reasons. First, it creates an artificial divide where there is in fact a natural unity: Taking someone literally is an obvious early step in…

Never Waste a Serious Wēijī

Collusion. Corruption. Covfefe. In 2017, it was easy to get distracted — and distraught — by President Trump’s Category 5 tweetstorms and the news cycles they drove. And thanks to the connectedness we now experience through social platforms like Facebook and Twitter, we often feel every newsworthy event with both apocalyptic urgency and a sense of fatigue that can paralyze us…

Doubling down on the future: Why I’m supporting Alec Ross for Governor of Maryland

As technology entrepreneur and former State Department senior advisor Alec Ross suggests in his New York Times best-seller, The Industries of the Future, prosperity goes to societies “that don’t just double down on the past but that can adapt and direct their citizens toward industries that are growing.” As an entrepreneur and investor, I’ve always focused on the future,…

Defending the United States Constitution

Each time someone buys Trumped Up Cards until Inauguration Day, I’m donating $10 to the ACLU When we started selling Trumped Up Cards to the public in September, we noted that we’d be giving all profits to charities already working to make America great. Our first area of focus will be on organizations that protect civil liberties. As…