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  • No One Left to Ask

    No One Left to Ask

    Notes from the Field — July 23, 2026 On July 21 and 22, within a day of each other, two federal agencies stopped doing something they’d…

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  • Two Warnings

    Two Warnings

    Block 9, Article 1 — A Republic, if You Can Keep It Philadelphia, September 17, 1787. The Constitutional Convention has ended. Benjamin Franklin makes his way…

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  • The Empty Room

    The Empty Room

    Block 8, Article 10 — Eliminated to Save Less Than Two Congressional Offices Congress once had its own independent scientific body — and eliminated it to…

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  • The Manufactured Doubt

    The Manufactured Doubt

    Block 8, Article 9 — Doubt Is Our Product Your uncertainty about climate science, vaccine safety, or pesticide risk may have been manufactured by the same…

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  • The Captured Expert

    The Captured Expert

    Block 8, Article 8 — The Mechanism Is Who Answers the Phone The official who regulates an industry today is statistically likely to work for that…

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  • The Price of Labor

    The Price of Labor

    Block 8, Article 7 — One in Three in 1955. One in Ten Today. In 1955 one in three American workers belonged to a union. Today…

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