Editor's Notes: Media Consolidation Is More Dangerous Than Media Fragmentation
We need to strengthen truly liberal media institutions.
The Reconstruction Papers Print-on-Demand Option Is Now Available to International Readers
The Reconstruction Papers is first and foremost a vision for how to fix what is broken in America specifically. But
Welcome to Gilded Age 2.0
Larry Ellison's growing influence in tech, media, and politics embodies our new age of oligarchic control.
Editor's Notes: Representative Assemblies as the Locus of Democracy
Though we could not cover everything, we managed to pull together twenty-two essays in The Reconstruction Papers. As we
The Dirtbags Won’t Save Us
There is no path out of our present crisis offered by the exaltation of callousness.
Callais Affects More Than Just Congress
State supreme courts have quietly become among the most politically significant institutions in American life.
The Legalization of Sports Gambling in America (Half the Answer #89, with Danny Funt)
How did sports betting burst onto the scene so violently in the last half-decade? Danny Funt, author of Everybody
The Return of Political Violence
Today’s levels of political violence are much lower than America's worst eras, but the trends strongly resemble their beginnings.
Starmer Out
Starmer did not "do nothing": he made the country radically more regressive. No wonder he fell.
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Editor's Notes: The Endurance of Biopolitics
Insurgent right-wing parties across the Western world have made population composition the objective of their political movements.