Ross Bogen

By Ross Bogen Do the events of the last year, particularly those involving the federal government, remind you of a movie you might have seen a little while ago? Or maybe just the title. In truth, little of the content of the 2022 Oscar-winning A24 film is directly related to our current situation, although there are many underlying resonances: existential angst, nihilism, surrealism, and the whole parallel-reality thing. But mainly, it is the cognitive overload, not to mention dissonance,...

Ross Bogen examines why hope for 2026 must be paired with vigilance, action, and clear-eyed realism in the face of ongoing threats to democracy.

And widespread outrage there was, mostly over the failure to force any major concessions… With the clarity of hindsight, there is a fundamental question: How were we thinking, realistically, this would end?