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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.

Jan 17, 202626 min
urban systems

The Rebuild: Infrastructure as Redistribution

What America's infrastructure actually looks like in 2025—three places, four programs, one honest ledger. We like to pretend infrastructure is a sequence of ribbon cuttings—the pure joy of scissors through satin. In reality, it's a ledger written in three inks: authorizations (Congress),.

Jul 28, 202519 min