The South Rises described four states, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi, held by one coalition at every layer at once, and asked whether the checks built into their governments still worked once the arithmetic stopped requiring them to. November 3 […]
Schisms Within ended on a question: whether a primary-season fracture costs a coalition the general election, or whether November simply reassembles what August split apart. The Great Lakes states, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, vote on November 3, and […]
In 1569 the Duke of Alba, governing the Netherlands for Philip II, asked the States General for three new taxes. The first, the Hundredth Penny, was a one-time levy of one percent on all property. The second, the Twentieth Penny, […]
Every tax on property rests on a number nobody paid. A house sells, and there's a price. But most houses don't sell in any given year, and a tax on property still has to be charged on all of them. […]
Two identical houses sit side by side on a street in the Bay Area. Same lot size, same 1950s floor plan, same view of the same hills. One owner pays about $2,000 a year in property tax. The other pays […]
The West North Central division — North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, and Missouri — earns the regional treatment The South Rises, Schisms Within, and The River Decides What Seven States Couldn't already gave other Census divisions, and […]
What Sacramento Is Deciding, Austin's Long Recess, Beacon Hill's Interval Training, and The View from Tallahassee each read a single capital's session. The South Rises and The River Decides What Seven States Couldn't broke that pattern to read a region […]
What Sacramento Is Deciding, Austin's Long Recess, Beacon Hill's Interval Training, and The View from Tallahassee each read one state capital's session for what it actually decides about social liberty, bill by bill. The South Rises broke that pattern once […]
What Sacramento Is Deciding and Austin's Long Recess gave this beat two structural patterns already: a legislature in continuous annual session against a hard floor deadline, and a legislature that meets once every two years and spends the other nineteen […]
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