Can We Still Govern?

democracy and dictatorship, Russia and Ukraine, America and Europe, local and global, past and present

In business, culture eats strategy. In government, culture eats policy. Here we'll talk about the problems of state capacity (government's ability to achieve its policy goals) and how to fix them. From the author of Recoding America.

Technology and politics in an interdependent world

Reflections on American democracy and its discontents

Weekend readings and selected Links

Defending liberal democracy against authoritarianism in the U.S. and around the world.

A newsletter that mixes insights from the history of the digital future (#WIREDarchive) with observations and rants about the state of politics today. Basically a blog for your inbox.

What we need to know and do to save democracy, or something that resembles it.

Weekly essays on reading the world and reading in the world, plus personalized book recommendations based on the last five books you've read.

Economic history, economics, political economy, finance, & forecasting. Here to try to make you (and me) smarter in a world with many increasingly deep & complicated troubles...

Dan Shafer's award-winning political opinion column and online publication on the discombobulating politics of Milwaukee and Wisconsin. The Recombobulation Area is part of the Civic Media network.

Parker Molloy’s award-winning media criticism, culture, and politics newsletter.