Commissioner Engelbert, WNBPA leadership, team owners, and members of the basketball community: I am writing as a longtime supporter of the WNBA who believes that the league is […]
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A VLAN for Christmas: The Smart Home Upgrade Parents Don’t Know They Need
Parents usually ask for practical gifts. A working coffeemaker. A night without chores. Something wrapped. This year there is a new contender for Most Useful Gift, and it […]
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The Day the People’s House Went Dark
Congress is supposed to argue. It is supposed to debate, negotiate, and fight like hell over ideas that affect millions of people. What it is not supposed to […]
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The Legal and the Low-Risk: The People Insurance Markets Can’t Afford to Lose
A late October evening in Denver, and a software designer named Marcus sits at his kitchen table scrolling through his health plan options. The renewal notice arrived with […]
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What Happens When Apple, Cadillac, and Democracy Walk Into a Pit Lane
Night in Las Vegas behaves like a living thing. The Strip glows with gold and neon. Light swallows the stars. Every sound echoes off monuments to audacity, each […]
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The Big Ten’s Payday Loan
College football functions as civic ritual as much as sport. The stadiums resemble cathedrals. The rituals resemble holidays. Generations of families plan their lives around Saturdays in the […]
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The Wisdom of the Ward and the Decline of Institutional Memory
There is a county clerk in Wisconsin who can tell you, without looking, which precincts always flip their absentee tallies at the last minute and why. She knows […]
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Curiosity is an act of courage
Thank you. That is the only honest way to begin. The past week brought a surge of new readers to Breaking Barriers, and the analytics point to something […]
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When Disinformation Becomes a Business Model
The video opens the way these things usually do. A blurred screenshot. A whispery narrator. The suggestion of a hidden truth just out of reach. Facts are optional. […]
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The Day Duty Quietly Won
Democracy doesn’t collapse overnight. It erodes, step by step, pushed along by leaders who see rules as obstacles instead of obligations. Trump is well into his second term […]