Updates, letters, and notes from the movement.
I’ve spent the last few weeks doing something incredibly complicated. I’ve been talking to people. That’s it. Strangers. A hundred of them. And when I started this hundred-person project, I thought I was conducting interviews. I thought I was going out there to learn what people thought about the country, what they were worried about, […]
Something very important happened at the Supreme Court this week. And I don’t think the real story is simply that Donald Trump lost. The bigger question is: Who actually runs an American election? Because most Americans probably assume the federal government runs presidential elections. It doesn’t. We don’t really have one national election. We have […]
So I just finished interviewing a hundred strangers. A hundred. At 69 years old. Do you know what most 69-year-old men are doing? Golf. Pickleball. Checking their blood pressure. Arguing with somebody at Costco because the rotisserie chicken moved three aisles. Not me. I’m wandering around Greensboro approaching complete strangers with a camera. Which, when […]
Something happened to me over the last few weeks that I wasn’t expecting. I changed. I went out to interview 100 strangers because I wanted to understand what people were thinking. I wanted to understand my community. I wanted to understand America. But I didn’t realize that the person I was going to understand better […]
A hundred different voices. I heard that line in one of my songs this morning, and for some reason it just stopped me. A hundred different voices. That’s what this thing has really been about. I started out thinking I was going to interview 100 people. Simple enough. Get a camera. Go out into Greensboro. […]
I saw something this morning that stopped me cold. There was a photograph from a University of Texas football game. The Longhorns had just scored the winning touchdown. Students were going crazy. Jumping. Hugging. Screaming. Throwing drinks in the air. You know—college football. Pretty much exactly what you’d expect. But Bo French, the Republican nominee […]