lots to say: Don't Give Them Our Word
Language changes, but some words are worth preserving.
lots to rethink: Audacious Self Governance
A new book offers insightful critiques of electoral systems and bold designs for genuine democracy.
lots to survive: the Great Acceleration and the Story of Progress
The life-or-death imperative to get our stories straight.
lots to swallow: it sucks that Congress sucks
Congress's durable, long-term unpopularity hurts everyone but congresspeople. They can't and won't fulfill our need for healthy deliberation. But we can and should fulfill it ourselves.
a lot to allot: How to get Spending Back on the Rails
Congress sees looming budget crises and desperately wants to avoid talking about them. If you're into democracy, there's an opportunity here.
lots to build: Process to Rein in Process
Conventional politics created the housing crisis. Counterintuitively, to escape the process hell suppressing housing supply calls, we need more democracy.
lots to express: How to Fix a Weird NYC Road
The new Office of Mass Engagement should use civic assemblies to get the city out of its biggest jams.
hear ya #2
plenty to check in about
lots to illuminate
What does it take to turn someone on to democracy?
lots of rabble to rouse
a syllable-saving scheme for sortition supporters
lots to reconsider
A body setting laws for a polity must represent the whole polity. Period.
lots to nest
Throughout the world electoral systems are centralizing power. Countering the trend will require a new approach to nested governance.
lots to move forward
We all have the same complaints; let's fix the problem.
lots to represent
When John Adams meets Kendrick Lamar.
lots to party about
the two-party trap is escapable if and only if we upgrade our system design
lots to propose
three suggestions for where citizens' constitutional conventions should begin making changes
lots of people
an unabashedly dorky case for democracy
lots to break down
If we want well-considered law, we've got to reorganize the legislative branch.
lots to declutter
tidying up to make room for skeptics
hear ya #1
pausing the essay format to check in