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From time to time, I write something about failing infrastructure in the US .  Usually, I complain about how I seem to be living in a comp...

Earlier this week, The Atlantic ran a pair of pieces about voting in the United States.  This one talked about low voter turnout, and h...

On the last day of the term, the US Supreme Court finally released its decision in the case of Arizona Legislature v. Arizona Independent...

A while back I was complaining about the evils of CSS and its mis-use to render the Web ugly, unreadable, or both.  I even threatened to...

In the early 1900s, at the height of the Progressive movement, most of the states in the western half of the US adopted citizen initiati...

In the beginning -- at least for my purposes here -- there was HTML.  Tags gave straightforward markup capabilities, but large amounts of ...

A friend of mine wrote an interesting piece for Utility Dive this week.  The basic premise is that the rapid growth of edge generating cap...