Democracy is PeopleThe book-in-progress (Oxford University Press). Democracy is not a machine that runs itself — it is a set of relationships among people, and our institutions have been destroying the conditions those relationships require.
Electoral ReformProportional representation, fusion voting, and structural reform — engineering solutions to diagnosable problems.
Featured EssaysEssays that show what Undercurrent Events does: find the hidden structures beneath headlines, trace the larger forces at work.
How Change HappensHow political systems resist change until they can't, why cascades form and collapse, and what it takes for tipping points to actually tip.
The Two-Party ProblemWhy the two-party system produces toxic polarization, why it can't self-correct, and how it forecloses the alternatives that change requires.