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Thoughtful journalism on governance, cities, climate, and the Americas.

Immigration policy timeline showing border crossings, detention facilities, and policy changes across a decade of shifting enforcement

A Decade of U.S. Immigration Under Trump's Second Term

Ten months of Trump's second term: immigration raids televised for impact, detention at record highs, legal channels shuttered. Policy as machine - rules become flows, flows become fates. A decade-spanning analysis of the border reset.

Recent Articles

Silhouettes of workers in fields and construction sites, representing the shadow labor force that sustains America's economy while remaining invisible and excluded from legal protections
governance

The Illegal Caste: America's Shadow Labor Regime

In the shadows of the U.S. economy, millions of undocumented immigrants sustain entire industries while being systematically excluded from the rights and protections afforded to others. A bold investigation into America's invisible apartheid - a modern caste system where exploitation is policy.

February 15
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governance

The Roberts Court's Corporate Coup: How SCOTUS Dismantled Democracy in 15 Devastating Decisions

From Citizens United's aftermath to abortion rights elimination, the Roberts Court's final phase represents the most systematic assault on individual liberty in modern American history.

February 14
Upstairs Subsidies - How crisis rescue flows upward through capital while households wait for relief
governance

Upstairs Subsidies: Bailouts, Class, and the American Idea of Capitalism

In U.S. crises, public money moves fastest through pipes that already exist for capital. Banks receive oxygen in hours; households receive forms. The result is a recovery that tilts upward. This essay maps the architecture of those upstairs subsidies, the class and political consequences, and a.

January 28
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governance

The Registry of Narrow Doors: Pedigree, Privilege, and the Lost Republic of Talent

A registry exists in America—not written on paper, but in the quiet agreements between deans and donors, the lists passed from one elite institution to the next. It is a map of how pedigree is formed, multiplied, and normalized; how a child's odds of admission to selective colleges correlate with.

January 18
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urban systems

The Solarpunk Meridian: U.S. Cities and Latin America''s Urban Innovations

American cities like to narrate themselves in asphalt and appetite—bigger freeways, taller chillers, longer commutes. Then the heat arrives like a bell the size of a sky, and the old grammar buckles. The most quietly innovative urban work of the last quarter-century has happened in Latin America—in.

January 17
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urban systems

Why the Electrical Grid Is a Civil Rights Issue

Stand by a substation at solar noon and you can hear the republic breathing: a dry chorus of fans, a smell of ozone, cables as thick as a forearm doing the humble arithmetic that keeps everything else lyrical—elections, novels, marriages. If the hum wobbles, the country stutters.

January 17
Aerial view of Colorado River Delta showing wetlands meeting the Sea of Cortez with agricultural fields in background
ecologies

The Delta We Forgot to Draw: Post-2026, the Colorado River's Real Negotiation Is With the Future

Forty million people will vote with faucets this decade. The Colorado—that purposeful blue thread stitched through seven U.S. states, 30 Tribal Nations, and two Mexican states—has been over-promised for a century and under-delivered for a generation. The legal wallpaper is ornate (compacts,.

January 17
High-voltage transmission lines crossing the U.S.-Mexico border with desert landscape and setting sun
ecologies

The Lines That Remember the Sun: A North American grid for a Spanish-American republic

Most borders are written in ink, but the U.S.–Mexico line is increasingly drawn in wire. It is a thin set of bridges—high-voltage interties, converter halls, relay cabinets—that allow two different electrical civilizations to borrow from each other when heat climbs, when hurricanes prowl, when a.

January 17
Strategic map overlaid with threat assessment cards showing international and domestic targets
governance

The Donroe Doctrine - Mapping Trump's Global Threat Matrix

Trump's Donroe Doctrine isn't foreign policy - it's a business plan. Every threat advances authoritarian power consolidation and billionaire class wealth extraction.

January 6