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How Are We So Evolved and Yet So Primitive At the Same Time?

Qasim Rashid & Bradley Tusk on U.S. Politics

My New TED Talk on Mobile Voting

It’s Not That Hard

Ask Mike Pesca Anything

This Is What You Get

Four Quick Thoughts On Last Night’s Mayoral Primary

When the World Gets Loud, Capital Gets Quiet

14 Questions About Waymo Coming to NYC (and 10 ways Jeff Bezos would run the Yankees)

The Six Operative Questions in the NYC Mayoral Race

When Do You Respond to Unsolicited Asks?

How Elon and Trump Could Really, Really Hurt Each Other

Don’t Bother Scaling This Mountain

A New, Non-Religious, Ten Commandments for Kids

Is MSNBC Good For Democrats?

When The Culture Exceeds the Religion

Does the Happy City Index Actually Measure Happiness?

Sam

Why China Loves Trump

Some Math

The Existential Choice of the Next Pope

The Road Ahead For Secure Mobile Voting Technology

You Can’t Compete With Weather

Six New Ideas We Had Coming Out of Thompson and Klein’s Abundance

Where Does Trump Go From Here?

Memo to Democrats

The Perception Gap That Makes America Unnecessarily Unhappy

There Are No Checks and Balances — Only Norms

An Initial Intellectual Framework for How Government Should Think About AI

When You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know

Don’t Want Another Trump? Fix the System.

What Columbia Should Do

Hochul Steals a Page from The Art of the Deal

This GOP Budget

A New Approach to Thinking About Screen Time

Governors Get the Message

Making Sense out of Imperial Ambition

13 Operative Questions As Of This Moment On The Balance of Power in NYC After Four Deputy Mayors Resign

Hochul Should Not Remove Eric Adams

Back to the Future

What Does DOJ Dropping the Charges Against Eric Adams Mean for the Mayoral Race?

A New Tradition at 80

How To Deal With Constant Rumination: 12 Ideas

The Trump Crypto Taskforce Makes Sense

How can AI take the politics out of policymaking

Initial Reactions to the Trump Executive Orders

5 Political Thoughts Around the LA Fires

Why Society Feels Out of Control and What We Can Do About It