New Year, New Call: For United States of Innovation

By Adam Shames

Saturday, January 15, 2011 at 04:43 PM

As we start a new year (and, some would say, a new decade) as an already reeling country now reeling even more from the shooting of a Congresswoman, I'm grappling with the state of the United States. There is no question that we are poorer than we were when I grew up, and there is much evidence that we are more divided and pessimistic than we've ever been.