The Current Struggle

Today, our democracy is struggling through one of the most politically divisive periods in our nation’s history.  Throughout my career, one of the persons I’ve turned to for insight and perspective in times like this is David Mathews.  Dr. Mathews is president and CEO of the Kettering Foundation, an international research institution which studies what it takes to make democracy work as it should.  This past year, he delivered the closing remarks at Kettering’s “National Issues Forum” in Washington, DC.  The topic of his address was political division.