A More Political Science

We Live Like Royalty and Don’t Know It

Introducing “How the System Works,” a series on the hidden mechanisms that support modern life

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A Pattern of Noncompliance

Ontario’s euthanasia regulators have tracked 428 cases of possible criminal violations — and not referred a single case to law enforcement, say leaked documents.

A tech stack for “deep work”

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Schools for building portfolios, not credentials

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Towns, cities, architecture, transit, and street plans the way we used to build

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A whole-of-patient approach to medicine

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Houses, a chip factory, anything really in place of Portland’s Hillsboro Airport

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Nuclear reactors that won’t melt down

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A landscape we have to navigate together

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Chains of geothermal power stations to keep the Yellowstone supervolcano from destroying modern civilization (and get a lot of clean power too)

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