Jim CarrollBetter Conversations Require Better InformationHow to Have A Better Conversation About Politics2 min read·Dec 8, 2022----
Jim CarrollCould Competence Be A Quality That We All Want In Politicians?We don’t know what competence means for a legislator. And it would likely be helpful as we try and revive democracy and democratic norms in…5 min read·Jan 27, 2022----
Jim CarrollUncertainty…Work, Life, BalanceThe pandemic is proving a chance to mirror personal decision making with public policy decision making.5 min read·Aug 17, 2021----
Jim CarrollWe need a Pro-Democracy VortexBuilding on the Green Vortex[1] metaphor Robinson Meyer used to describe how the US has met many of the unadopted 2009 climate change…2 min read·Jun 18, 2021----
Jim CarrollBetter Problem Framing Could Lead to Better Solutions: Responding to George Packer in The Atlantic…The value in problem framing comes from helping to find new solutions to a problem. Trying to find a solution to the US political conundrum…3 min read·Jun 11, 2021----
Jim CarrollBS is the basis of so much of the info we see everyday.I think his work would help here:1 min read·Jun 6, 2021--1--1
Jim CarrollGoverning Matters Deeply, Focusing on Competency Could Improve It.The reason we care deeply, maybe excessively, about politics is valid; Governing really matters right now. Yet the way we express how much…4 min read·Mar 12, 2021----
Jim CarrollThe Time Has Come for Never Trump Republicans to Leave the Republican PartyTwo-party democracy doesn’t work when one party doesn’t support democracy2 min read·Jan 4, 2021----
Jim CarrollWhat is an Adequate Response to Republican Anti-Democracy?It depends, as someone with no power joining protests is really about all we have access to. Yet it is pretty clear from history that…3 min read·Dec 21, 2020--2--2
Jim CarrollWe Need a Gang of SixOur politics is dysfunctional, we are too polarized as a nation to have functional government, and Democracy is broken; all the headlines…2 min read·Dec 6, 2020----