You Can't Build a Better Politics on Bad History
Sarah Longwell's "How to Eat an Elephant" offers useful advice for Democratic politics. Yet it is also based on a false history of the GOP.
How Chile Recovered Its Democracy
A leader operating beyond the margins of the law can yet eventually be defeated in a free and fair election.
Editor's Notes: Your Local Fascists
We know what to do with Trump and his stooges. The harder question is what to do with the ordinary Americans we will have to live alongside afterwards.
Americans Are Angry. The Democratic Base Is Furious.
We must channel our anger at current injustices into productive direct action.
Social Media Has Not Brought Liberation
Social media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies.
Headwaters: September 21–27, 2026
Looking at what’s just behind us in preparation for the week ahead.
The War with Iran Has No End (Neon Liberalism #92)
Structural factors are driving us towards a more chaotic and lawless world.
Seeing Like a Gardener: A New Framework for the Public Funding of Science
Chapter 11 (pp. 84–91) from The Reconstruction Papers.
Holly Berkley Fletcher and Benjamin Wittes Talk to Adam Gurri About The Reconstruction Papers
We focus mainly on court reform but other topics come up as well.
Don't Abandon Ukraine (Out of the Jaws #12, with Dylan Burns)
Tactical and technological innovations on the battlefield, and the brutal realities of war.
“Network” at 50: Now We’re All Mad as Hell
Paddy Chayefsky’s take on television captured the Long 1970s—and anticipated the rise of social media.