Vertical: Politics
THE LUDDITE RECOIL: TEMPLE’S DATA CENTER AND THE PRICE OF PROGRESS
TEMPLE, TX — There is a particular brand of civic fever that takes hold when the modern world attempts to plant its flag in…
THE LAW OF THE BIGGEST PUMP: TEXAS’S FEUDAL WATER REALITY
AUSTIN, TX — As the mercury climbs and the Leon River begins its annual retreat into the mud, the citizens of Bell County find…
THE GREAT UNRAVELING: THE DELEGATION OF COMPETENCE
WASHINGTON, D.C. — For forty years, the American bureaucracy operated on a simple, if flawed, principle: when the law was silent, the "experts" spoke.…
THE INTEREST GUILLOTINE: SERVICING THE GHOSTS OF YESTERDAY
WASHINGTON, D.C. — There is a law of history, often attributed to the 18th-century philosopher Adam Ferguson, which states that any great power that…