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An Extraordinary Experience
The Deschutes Civic Assembly, 2024
Attention: We’ve created a survey for folks to take to help us understand who’s in our community, what you care about, and how we can better involve you in growing the movement for sortition-based democra...
Sortition: Activism for Activists
In the movie Fight Club, the unnamed protagonist and Marla attend all the support groups that they can find. Neither of the characters has any of the life-threatening illnesses, such as testicular cancer, blood parasites, or tuberculosis, t...
There is No Meritocracy Without Lottocracy
Campbell's Law (a variant of Goodhart's Law) states that the more a metric is used for social decision-making, the more it will be subject to corruption which distorts and corrupts not only the metric itself, but the very social processes i...
The Great Renovation
Dome of the U.S. Capitol Under Construction, ca 1863 (Getty Images)
This essay originally appeared in The Fulcrum on June 10, 2025. It was co-authored by Nick Coccoma of Assemble America and Roshan Bliss of the National Coalition for Dialo...
The People's Convention
The Politician Exit Ramp
Elections are fundamentally inconsistent with democracy.
That sounds crazy, but consider it for a moment. Are politicians good stand-ins for We the People? This isn't just to bash on politicians. Some are earn...
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