The Day After (2024 Edition)
By Thom Little, Ph.D. This blog was originally posted following the 2016 elections and then again following the 2020 elections. In light of the division, [...]
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter: Examples of True Public Servants
By: Thom Little, Ph.D. One hundred years! That is a long time to live on this earth and former President Jimmy Carter made that milestone [...]
Hope for a More Civil Legislature?
Two weeks ago, I attended one of my favorite State Legislative Leaders Foundation programs - the annual meeting of the National Speakers Conference. This program [...]
Partners in Politics and Policy
By Thom Little, Ph.D. One of my favorite parts of my job as the Director of Curriculum Development and Research for the State Legislative Leaders [...]
Differ We Must
By Thom Little, Ph.D. As I have done for twenty years now, I spent three hot July days on the campus of the University of [...]
Remember
By Thom Little, Ph.D. On the Friday before Memorial Day, as I returned from the gym, my wife greeted me with two requests: please empty [...]
Life After the Legislature
By Thom Little, Ph.D. It is hard to believe, but it has been a decade since SLLF began its series of programs at Presidential Libraries. [...]
A Woman’s Place is in the House (and in the Senate)
By Thom Little, Ph.D. In honor of Women’s History Month, I wanted to recognize and honor the women trailblazers, past and present, in America’s state [...]
Artificial Intelligence: What State Legislators Need to Be Thinking About
by Thom Little Ph.D. (with a significant assist from ChatGPT) In less than three months (April 25-27), SLLF will be hosting a conference on Artificial [...]
