Crisis by design
A statutory debt ceiling disconnected from the regular budget process is just a posturing opportunity for leaders who refuse to govern responsibly within the system they ostensibly lead.
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Section 230 isn't the tool we need
Two major Supreme Court cases decided last week show where we need to focus our attention if we hope to create a framework for guiding and regulating our public sphere.
Weekend Edition: No more blank pages
Some will see that declaration as a rubicon of achievement in the arrival of generative AI and be elated. But what might we be giving up?
Weekend Edition: Insufficiently public, insufficiently just
Fox News's settlement might be getting in the way of an opportunity to get what we need from the Sullivan standard and our defense of the First Amendment in the Dominion lawsuit.
A new labor race to the bottom?
Our policies about people need attention before we completely dehumanize ourselves.
Weekend Edition: What our debate about Section 230 and platform liability should be about
Two cases this week about Section 230 and social media liability for terrorism could affect the next generation of information and media systems and their influence on our public sphere.
The exceptional outsider democratists
A wonderful, posthumous gift from David Graeber invites us to think differently about the roots of democratic culture and the functioning of democratic communities.
Weekend Edition: A familiar breathlessness
What the last decade wrestling with the potential and effects of social media might teach us about how we greet ChatGPT.
Weekend Edition: We Were All Environmentalists Once
Our estrangement from nature might just be both older and less permanent that we think
The Schadenfreude of the Speaker
As much fun as was had last week watching the hammering Speaker McCarthy took on the way to the gavel, if it really is "The People's House", then it's our house that's on fire. So what do we do?
Weekend Edition: Beginnings and Transformation
Is there a modern equivalent of the 95 Theses? Does it matter? Perhaps we don't need the permission of history to begin.
Weekend Edition: Our Private Public Sphere
What the Twitter upheaval might teach us about private public goods.