I sit in my study mulling the grim reality around me in 2050, and I think: Let’s face it. We Americans love being a divided people. There isn’t much we like more. Maybe pets. We generally like our ...

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Goldsmith is an emeritus member of The San Diego Union-Tribune Community Advisory Board and a former law partner, judge, state legislator, adjunct law professor, San Diego city attorney and Poway ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Brian Castrucci is the president & CEO of the de Beaumont Foundation. The third annual Heart of America survey reveals common ...

For much of our history Americans have been enchanted by a fable of their own invention: that we are one people, that “America” means more or less the same thing to us all. If it has done nothing else ...