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In August the lakes region's stories were fractures inside each party. Two weeks before the vote, the question is which of those fractures the general election closes, and which ones it hands a pen.
On the night of 27 March 1943 a group of men in borrowed police uniforms talked their way into the Amsterdam population registry on the Plantage Kerklaan, a former concert hall across from the zoo. They overpowered the guards, moved […]
Sometime in the late 1860s, at Eastwood on the edge of Sydney, Maria Ann Smith threw the cores of some French crab apples onto a heap near the creek at the bottom of her farm. Apples don't grow true from […]
In the autumn of 1818 the parish of Dedham, Massachusetts, chose a new minister. The parish was every taxpayer in town, and the taxpayers wanted Alvan Lamson, a young Harvard man of the liberal, Unitarian kind. The church was the […]
When competence stops being scarce, who gets to hold the capability?
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Land is a little bit everyone's, and it still doesn't have to belong to the state.
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Self-government at the scale where people actually live: the town, the neighborhood, the watershed.
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