Tom Teicher

Tom Teicher spent twenty-two years inside the systems most people only argue about from a distance. Twelve years helping people find their footing after prison. A decade working on homelessness in Seattle. Then he did something unusual for a man with that resume: he turned his attention to the Constitution itself. In this conversation, Bruce Anthony sits down with Tom Teicher to trace the whole arc, from a childhood where the world felt like his oyster to a career spent meeting people who never got that same head start. They get into what actually helps someone coming home from prison, why a full-time job still is not enough to keep a roof over your head, and how two decades of watching institutions fall short led Teicher to one provocative idea: a 28th Amendment that would call a constitutional convention roughly every forty years. It is an idea that cuts both ways, and Bruce does not let it slide. If you can reopen the Constitution, you can reopen everything in it, including t…