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 […]
In 1643 Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven formed the United Colonies of New England. Each colony sent two commissioners, and any decision needed six of the eight votes. The confederation handled what no single colony could, chiefly defense […]
What Sacramento Is Deciding, Austin's Long Recess, and Beacon Hill's Interval Training each took a single state capital as the unit worth watching. This entry breaks that pattern on purpose. Growing a Movement as a Design Problem argued that the […]
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