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Weekend Edition: Augmentation over replacement
If we continue to talk about the future only in the darkest, most post-apocalyptic terms, no one is going to want to go there. And we may miss an opportunity to make it amazing.
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An America without Roe
With a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion overruling Roe v Wade in hand, what does this say about America, about how we got here, and where we need to go?
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Democrats are getting what we deserve
Passing on opportunities to demonstrate our principles is a sure path to losing the opportunity to serve.
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Weekend Edition: Blaming the tower, forgetting about the architects
What Jonathan Haidt's "Tower of Babel" essay on the last decade in America oversimplifies and where it might could invite us to go.
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McMorrow's moral leadership
A state senator from Michigan is showing us what strength that is neither angry nor mean can look like.
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Weekend Edition (on Monday): Populism, disinformation, and the Democrats
We're missing something (and an opportunity) at the heart of current populist rumblings on both sides of the aisle -- and it isn't disinformation.
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A new excuse for Democrats?
Misinterpreting election cycles is a pretty consistent theme in the Democratic party over the last decade, and it seems to be starting early this cycle.
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Gerrymandering is all about not trusting people
Our increasingly power-centric, incumbent-centric civic systems are confirming that our leaders no longer trust us or their own leadership -- if they ever did.
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Weekend Edition: Is web3 trying to pick up where liberalism (or neoliberalism) left off?
The debates we are having about the future of the internet aren't really about technology: they are most-importantly conversations about the kind of future we want and how we support it.
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Weekend Edition: Places, not maps
Modern life is full of abstractions -- many of which expand our lives in meaningful ways. But finding opportunities to experience "places" directly helps us embrace and expand our humanity.
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People before (not instead of) profits
Why it matters to give the first-mover advantage in retail cannabis to people who've been crushed by our decades-long war on drugs.
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Joe Rogan and who we decide to trust
The breakdown of our public sphere on the backs of dysfunctional media systems is changing how and who we trust.