Dark Before Dawn
Liberal CynicDark Before Dawn is a political newsletter for people tired of being lied to about how government works. I’m a liberal, writing with a cynic’s eye for incentives, power, and institutional failure — not vibes, personalities, or comforting myths.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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Project 2028: Taking Our Control Back - Pillar 2: Public Investment
Author’s Note: This is part 4 of an ongoing series. Here are the links to the previous parts:
Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: The Diagnosis
Part 3: Pillar 1 - Restoring Labor Power
The Three Things the Market Can’t Do
You are r...
Project 2028: Taking Our Control Back - Pillar One: Restoring Labor Power
Author’s Note: This is part 3 of an ongoing series. Here are the links to the previous parts:
Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: The Diagnosis
The Word Nobody Wants to Say
There is a word that makes a certain kind of Democrat uncomfort...
Project 2028: Taking Our Control Back - The Diagnosis
Part I — The Project Begins
In the early 1970s, two documents were written that would spend the next fifty years remaking America. Neither appeared on a ballot. Neither was debated in Congress. Neither was reported on the front page of any...
Project 2028: Taking Our Control Back
I work for the federal government.
I am not going to tell you which agency or which office or which region. I publish this newsletter under a pseudonym for reasons that have become more rather than less compelling over the course of the la...
They're Not From Here
There is a scene from this week's congressional testimony that deserves to be preserved carefully, because it says something that statistics alone cannot.
Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman asked Russell Vought — the man who as OMB Direc...
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