Never Enough: How the Comparison Machine Is Making Us Sick
We are not more miserable because our lives have gotten worse. We are more miserable because the lives we are comparing ourselves to have gotten impossibly better.
The T in TPS
Temporary. Protected. Status. For decades, none of those words meant what they said.
Social Media: The Missed Opportunity
We built the greatest potential instrument for democratic self-governance in history, then handed its architecture to companies whose financial interest lay in preventing it from functioning that way.
Proof of Personhood
How a DNA key could end the bot crisis without ending anonymity.
The Ledger of Movement
What global migration data actually tells us, why the West keeps getting it wrong from both ends, and what a rational policy would look like.
Return on Taxation
America doesn’t have a spending problem. It has a pooling problem.
DNA Typos
A single misprint in three billion letters can kill you. We just learned how to use spell-check.
The War That Cannot Be Won
Fifty-four years, a trillion dollars, and 80,000 dead per year. The drug war has not failed because we fought it poorly. It has failed because it was built on a false premise.
The Rise of Authoritarianism, Christian Nationalism and Don Talarico del Texas
A young Texan in seminary fighting windmills the size of the White House.
The Digital Furnace
How the intelligence revolution became one of the largest electricity consumers in history, and what that means for the grid, the climate, and your neighborhood.
Dismantling the Duopoly
Why two parties are not enough for three hundred and forty million people.
Capitalism Can Be Fixed
But we need to be honest about what’s coming.
Medical Divorce
When a fifty-year marriage becomes a financial liability, the system has already failed.
The House Always Wins.
How American banking extracts wealth from the people least able to resist it.
The Price of Living.
When the market knows you have no choice, it charges accordingly.
ICE Isn’t Cool.
How America’s most controversial law enforcement agency lost its way—and what it would take to fix it.
The Unspendable Dollar
America has more billionaires than any nation in history. It also deploys the word “socialism” to make sure nothing changes.
Your Vote Is Being Stolen And It’s All Perfectly Legal
The shadow democracy we live in and how to win back the real one.
The Code We All Carry
A universal DNA registry would solve cold cases, advance medicine, and replace the Social Security number. It would also hand government the most intimate data imaginable.
Watching Every Move
Automated license plate readers solve real crimes. They also map your life without a warrant.
The Case for a World Government
Why the architecture of peace is an engineering problem, not a utopian dream
Healthcare & The Gutters
How the richest country in the world leaves its people in the street
The Blessing & Curse of AI
Net positive, yes. But we are sleepwalking into the consequences.
Rockets & Feathers
Why your gas bill is a policy choice, not a law of nature
Sun, Wind & Salt. Autonomous Pods & the Battery that Changes Everything.
The autonomous pod network that fixes transportation and green energy storage at the same time. And why we are not building it yet.
A Legislature That Has Forgotten Who It Works For
On fundraising, lobbyists, pork, procedural capture, and the slow erosion of democratic representation in Congress
Faith, Power, and the Wall Between Them
On the freedom of religion, the freedom from it, and the accountability that both require
The First Amendment Belongs to the People
How Citizens United used the Constitution to silence the citizens it was meant to protect