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The Mechanics of Crime Reduction in DC
Early indications were that crime in Trump’s DC had sharply declined through the entire course of the “surge” of policing. The surge started in early August 2025, and many categories of “violent crime” as well a host of other types of crime...
A Week of Democracy in the Anglosphere
On Friday, May 8, 2026, the Supreme Court of the State of Virginia (“SCOVA”) invalidated the April referendum by which the electorate had narrowly approved a new map of aggressively gerrymandered Congressional districts. In a 4-3 opinion, S...
Operationalizing Voting Rights
Gerrymandering and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 have been much in the news the last few weeks. What is going on?
Let me open with a thumbnail sketch of post-Civil War history:
The Civil War ended in 1865. The 13th Amendment to the Consti...
Gerrymandering is bad until it isn’t, they said.
Readers in Virginia will know that April 21 marks the last day of well more than a month of voting on a ballot initiative that pertains to the recrafting of Congressional districts. The state is already partitioned into 11 Congressional dis...
War is bargaining by other means
Two words that would set an almost impossible target for the greatest military force the world has ever known – “Unconditional Surrender.”
– The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
As of the writing of this short e...
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Economist and historian just trying to identify good questions and to impose some structure on how to think about them. I spent 20 years inside the Washington Blob putting the "civil" and "service" in "Civil Service."
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