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Civic Life

The County Clerk's Office in Falmouth

The county clerk is now a federal voter integrity endpoint. Montana has the first real legal theory against Citizens United in fifteen years. The V-Dem Institute just recorded democracy's largest single-year decline since 1789. The window is now.

I Came Back as Someone Who Could See It

I left "the southern side of Northern Kentucky" for fifteen years. I came back having navigated sobriety, an HIV diagnosis, and an emerging spiritual practice — and found the argument for my book living in the data and drama of home.

What Is the Velocity Crisis?

The world is generating more than any of us can metabolize with integrity. This feeling has a name — and naming it precisely is the first act of not being consumed by it. A definition, a diagnostic scale, and what Creative Recess offers instead.