“President Obama is casting his lot in the middle of a debate as old as America itself: Are we rugged individualists pulling ourselves up by the bootstraps? Or are we a nation of community, all connected and counting on one another?” AmericaNationsPresidentCommunityMiddleConnectedDebatePresident ObamaPullingCastingCountingRuggedBootstraps Author:Ron Fournier
“America is a country that is now utterly divided when it comes to its society, its economy, its politics. There are definitely two Americas. I live in one, on one block in Baltimore that is part of the viable America, the America that is connected to its own economy, where there is a plausible future for the people born into it.” PeopleTwoCountryAmericaBornEconomyConnectedBlockPlausibleBaltimoreSchizophrenicOne On One Author:David Simon