Term limit and structural reform proposals poll well and go nowhere, for a simple structural reason: they ask the people with power to vote against their own interest. History suggests a different path works better.
Read MoreCoverage of AI keeps swinging between bubble-talk and singularity-talk, when the more useful question is much narrower: which specific tasks are reliable enough to actually delegate today, and which aren’t.
Read MoreTransit projects in many major cities cost several times more per mile than comparable projects abroad — and the real culprit is a planning process with too many sequential veto points, not any single villain.
Read MorePolling averages get treated as precise predictions when they’re really probabilistic ranges — and the gap between how polls are conducted and how they’re reported is doing real damage to public understanding.
Read MoreThe decline of local news isn’t just a media story — the civic costs, from lower voter turnout to higher municipal borrowing rates, are becoming measurable, and philanthropy alone won’t fill the gap.
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