Will the Coronavirus Spur America to Depolarize Its Political Discourse System?Amplifies Peter Coleman's idea that COVID had "the...

Thoughts on today's Chicago Journalism Town Hall 2020 and on “Dear Lori” as a Way for Chicago's Media to Profitably Connect Chicagoans...

Open Letter to the General Managers of Seven Chicago TV Stations about the Next Big Thing in Chicago TV A brief pre-COVID attempt to wake...

Making Chicago Safe the New Chicago Way Three reasons - a new mayor, new uses of media and empowered citizenship - why the sea-change...

How Chicago Can Make Itself Safer Than New York.

Progressives Lori and Toni Just Missed a Golden Opportunity to End Machine Politics

Our four-part case for Chicago FIXIT begins with a call for Violence Solution (as opposed to Violence Reduction) How Chicago Can Solve...

Making Democracy Work Again, makes the case for issue-centered FIXIT political discourse as an alternative and corrective to America's...

This one illustrates the FIXIT media universe in Chicago: ... and this one gives an overview of a 32-week season of Chicago FIXIT:

How Chicago Can Make Itself Safer than New York

How Can Chicago Make Itself Safe in a Digital Age?

Chicago FIXIT Page

Chicago can solve violence on it's own.

Chicago is the poster child for urban violence in America. That's the downside. The upside is that Chicago is poised to solve its...

Why Nothing Gets Done in Washington or Springfield

Broken government in Springfield and Washington is due to a lack of good old-fashioned dealmakers. In response, I argue in this Medium...

The solution is to supplement this polarizing discourse with issue-centered discourse that de-polarizes politics by making citizens and...

How can Chicago solve violence? Think Chicago FIXIT: rule-governed, voter-driven prime time reality TV enhanced by other Chicago media.

This election-eve piece bypassed the question of who would win the election in order to raise and answer a larger and, I think, more...

Set in year 2026, this 600-word future history shows how a new kind of political media enabled Chicago, Illinois and the United States to...

At a Chicago City Data User Group meeting. Scroll down. Prof. Goldsmith is the author of Beyond Transparency: Open Data and the Future of...

In Seven Steps: How Bruce Rauner Ended the War for Illinois and Turned Illinois Around An imaginary "Future History" showing how a...

A yearlong series of monthly "AUSTIN WORKING TOGETHER" televised town hall meetingsdesigned to reduce youth violence and improve...