The Internet belongs to the edge, not the center.

Not only would it be the right thing to do, it would be great political jiu jitsu on the Bells, which have gamed the system during the Bush years to create the first subsidized, unregulated monopoly in the American economy in 100 years.

As a Senator Webb is likely to be moved from the left back to the right, becoming increasingly irrelevant as the new thesis takes hold. That's the pattern anyway.

Right now, the Bush Administration is doing what the Johnson people did in the mid-1960s, everything they can to institutionalize their advantage.

My word for all this is satiation. Many of our richest and most famous chafe at the limits of their own avarice. They wonder if there's something more. And they find it, in doing good work, in contributing to the world's forward progress.

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.