Leadership Matters
George A. PolisnerLessons for the future about the erosion of democracy in the United States and the dangerous rise of authoritarianism from the founder of https://civ.works.
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The Normalization of the Unthinkable
A neighbor in Tucson reads the news over coffee. ICE killed another human being. The war that is not a war, starting again, with bombings and a naval blockade. Reporters subpoenaed for reporting. The Secretary of State calling to dismantle...
The Architecture of Voter Suppression
March 7, 1965.
On March 7, 1965, John Lewis walked to the crest of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, and a state trooper fractured his skull for it. He was twenty-five. He had committed no crime. He was asking for one thing. The...
Once Upon a Time We Fired a King
The King of Corruption and Debt.
Once upon a time,
and by that I mean two hundred and fifty years ago this week, a group of colonists published a list of reasons they were finished with a king. Not a feeling. A list. Numbered, specific...
The Architecture of Corruption
Trump enjoying his “gift” from Qatar and U.S. taxpayers.
A foreign government gave the President of the United States an airplane.
A Boeing 747-8 valued at roughly $400 million, offered by the royal family of Qatar. [1]
Trump correctly i...
The Architecture of Pie
Something is wrong. You can feel it, even if you can’t quite name it.
One-half of all U.S. Households hold 2.5% of U.S. Wealth (Source: US Federal Reserve, Q4 2025)
If you're older, you remember when the "American deal" was different. You...
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Founder of civ.works. Now on Ghost as a hate and extremist-free Substack alternative (https://civicsky.io) for writing, democracy, and civic action. Infamous Unquiet Quitter: http://bit.ly/3J0QagN
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