On Data and Democracy
Adam BonicaData-driven insights illuminating the challenges and potential paths forward for American democracy.
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The Wall Looks Permanent Until It Falls
My earliest political memory is watching the Berlin Wall fall. I was six years old. We watched together on the nightly news—strangers embracing, people swinging hammers at concrete, everyone laughing. I didn’t know what the wall was or why...
Tilting at Progress
I first read Don Quixote in college because of a friend. He cited it as his favorite book—a weird choice for an 18-year-old, I thought. He was an all-around endearing and earnest person. He came from an ultra-conservative rural Utah town, i...
On Data and Democracy 2025 Year-in-Review Visualized
As 2025 comes to a close, I want to thank everyone who has taken the time to read and share this work. Writing these pieces has been a highlight of my year—a chance to put the data pipeline I’ve built over the past fifteen years to work for...
How Regulation by Litigation Strangled American Abundance
On an August morning in 2022, construction crews arrived at Berkeley’s historic People’s Park to do what countless students had been begging the University of California to do for years: build more housing. The university had a plan: 1,100...
Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.
For fifteen years, I've tracked the flow of political money in America—who gives, who gets, and what it buys. After all that, I can say this with confidence: the narrative most Americans hear about money in politics largely misses the real...
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