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Politics, government, and how to improve what feels like an increasingly broken system.
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Missouri’s redistricting whiplash (opens the original)
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With an election coming up on November 3: vote NO on Proposition A. Voting NO strikes down an egregiously gerrymandered map that the Missouri legislature passed last year.1Here’s a link to People Not Politicians, Richard von Glahn’s organization that is leading the effort to defeat Proposition A.When Missouri politics is a national headline, it’s seldom anything good. But these past few weeks have been particular
Loneliness is a policy problem (opens the original)
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It’s well understood that loneliness is a crisis in this country. The CDC notes that 1-in-3 Americans feel lonely,1 and article after <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-loneliness-crisis-has-gotten-so-bad-that-lawmakers-are-ready-to-spend-millions-of-dollars-to-fight
How gambling apps target boys under 21 (opens the original)
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I originally wrote this for the American Institute for Boys and Men, an advocacy group that conducts nonpartisan research on issues that affect the well-being of boys and men across the United States. AIBM published it yesterday.Since the Supreme Court allowed states to legalize sports gambling in 2018, it’s been an all-out land grab for FanDuel, DraftKings, and other gamblin
No, Democratic Socialists aren't taking over (opens the original)
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If you pay way too much attention to politics, as I do,1 there’s been a lot of coverage about how progressives—and members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) specifically, who are to the left of progressives—have won a bunch of recent U.S. House primaries.It is true that DSA members unseated incumbents in New York City and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/us/elections/results-colorado-us-house
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