That's what open source politics is about. It's not about the extremes of either capitalism or communism. It's about finding a balancing between giving and getting, between individual and collective action.

Regular readers know I have a generational theory of American political history. Great change emerges from great crises. These crises scar generations, and inform politics through smaller crises. Finally problems emerge that the past generation has no answer for, and a new crisis emerges. In this post, I want to briefly review U.S. political history […]

There is no complete solution. Instant replay might help in some cases, but people disagree on interpretations. A system of challenges, as used in American football, might limit all this, but it would not be perfect by any means.

When everyone is disobeying a law the law must change, or it's irrelevant.

They have a cold, we catch the flu. China wants to cool off its growth, we slide into recession. The policies which control our economy are being made in Beijing, not in Washington.

The charge is that Kos and Armstrong used this channel to get their fellow bloggers to keep quiet about their "scandal," which TNR and the Times were trying to concoct. This is a lie.

What has happened for years, what will happen, is the Bells will stuff this money into their pockets and do nothing for it. The whole subsidy is based on an industrial-era lie, on the high costs of wired telephony, and frankly it's unnecesary.

Real change does not happen often. For assumptions to change you need a crisis. You need a set of problems that the current Thesis cannot comprehend. You need consequences so massive as to be unquestionable.

Alberto Gonzalez has been raised on the Bush myth. He is dedicated to it, absolutely, just as Ramsey Clark ws to the Roosevelt myth.

There are things which can be done. But expecting capital to flow into an industry the government is discouraging doesn’t mean the science is wrong, or the market has rejected the idea. It means we need to change the policy.