It's the System, Stupid
In 1992, James Carville pinned a sign to the wall of Bill Clinton's campaign headquarters in Little Rock that read, in three lines, "Change versus …
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The Wrong Form of Protest
Three senior ministers, three statements, all on message, all in the same forty-eight hours, all addressed to a movement whose members are not in any …
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It Is Too Much
It is too much. That is the first thing to say, and most of the writing about the present moment will not say it, because …
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The Work Without a Playbook
The lever work and the moral siren work both still need to be done, because they are the only tools we have for the question …
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What the Surplus Hides
On paper, Ireland is the only Western European country currently building government wealth at scale rather than running it down. By the standard measures, the …
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The Island That Went First
So imagine this. A political movement based on a doctrine of acceptance, the kind described in our previous article, gains power in Ireland. Not in …
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The Acceptance
There is a particular kind of silence that settles over a conversation when everyone in the room knows the same thing and nobody is willing …
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The Ladder They Pulled Up
Ireland's government wants more professional landlords. Ireland's young people can't find jobs. These are not two stories. They are one policy, viewed from opposite ends …
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The State of Your Privacy in Ireland: Everything You're Not Being Told
Ireland is the privacy capital of Europe — on paper. In practice, there is no law against doxxing, no protection from AI deepfakes, €4 billion …
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The Tools Already Exist
Ireland has some of the strongest public records laws in Europe. FOI, the Lobbying Act, beneficial ownership registers, planning databases — the infrastructure for accountability …
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