Thursday, July 02, 2026
PMT: The 250th
The 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is turning out to be a little hard to place. Multiple committees working on the national scale have produced events that... well, it's not clear they are rolling out the way people hoped.
In the end, though, it is a great time for all of us to reflect on the country and our own roles here. There is no doubt that this is a divisive time. For each of us the question is this: What will we work towards next? It has to be something beyond following some national figure or throwing slogans around. We are at an inflection point, and what happens will in the end come down to what we, all of us, do.
Wednesday, July 01, 2026
World Cup Update
It's been a pretty exciting tournament so far here in North America. Co-hosts Canada and Mexico are already through to the round of 16, while the U.S. plays Bosnia-Herzegovina tonight.
There have some great upsets so far. On Monday, Paraguay beat Germany and Morocco beat the Netherlands, for example.
If you haven't been watching, you might want to tune in this evening for the U.S. game...
[Ok, so an update to my update... I mistakenly set this to post at 11:40 tonight instead of midnight last night. Sorry! But that does mean I can report that the U.S. won its game today 2-0 over Bosnia-Herzegovina. It's the first time the U.S. has ever won three games in a World Cup, and sends them into the round of 16 against Belgium. However, the Americans' star striker, Falorin Balogun (who scored the first goal in the game) received a red card for stepping on an opponent's leg. That means he will miss the game against Belgium.]
