How we think about what's not working in our civic life might offer a very different long-term path to something better even while the short-term demands we live in and confront our unrelentingly dysfunctional present as directly as we can.
Democracy
How Micah Bornfree's Unified Theory of Revolution combined with a dimension of time might could help us make sense of the work confronting us and keep us moving toward the nation we need.
The highest court in the land not only decides our most fundamental constitutional questions, their power to choose which cases they hear at all fundamentally shapes our civic culture and discourse in largely silent ways.
Democracy
Why continuing to try to predict the future in a moment of impossibly heavy uncertainty might be one of our keys to changing course.
If damage is the strategy, then the cracks are our guide to the work our democracy needs from us, win or lose.
The most important insight might not be anything that happens in the simulated Situation Room but what kept one of the characters from ending up on the wrong side of the "war".
A wonderful, posthumous gift from David Graeber invites us to think differently about the roots of democratic culture and the functioning of democratic communities.
The 2022-ness of what we're living through started well before this cycle, and we need to embrace both a longer horizon and new everyday, always-on approach to our civic life to find a new path.
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Examining where, how, and for whom democracy shows up in culture can point us toward where and how we need to engage new conversations about reclaiming our democracy.
Newsletter
We need to talk about what we're really talking about when we talk about the filibuster: our desperate need for our leaders to govern.
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There is no "too late" here: investigate, prosecute, expel, imprison.
Our national civic health needs justice every bit as much as our public health needs the vaccine.