№ 060The Perimeter
Immigration detention is civil. Nobody in it is serving a sentence, and 3 in 4 of the 65,000 people held in November 2025 had never been convicted of anything. A bed costs $165 a day; supervised release costs about $5 and produces court appearance rates above 90 percent. The Supreme Court said in 2001 that six months is the outer edge of reasonable and in 2018 that the statute sets no clock at all. Write the clock: a hearing in 7 days, a judge's finding every 30, and release at 180.
Released September 1, 2026
№ 059The Open Hand
America has 2 hospital ships. Both were oil tankers launched in 1975 and 1976, and they spent 2021, 2023 and 2024 tied to the pier. China's one ship has treated 290,000 patients in 45 countries; a Texas charity's 2 ships perform 6,000 surgeries a year. Build 10, crew them permanently, keep 5 at sea at all times, and station them where the sick are. A great power is followed for what it does.
Released August 31, 2026
№ 058The Covenant
Police killed at least 1,365 people in 2024, the most on record. That number comes from a nonprofit, because the FBI's own count is voluntary, has never reached the participation it needs to publish in full, and the newspaper that kept the best tally stopped on January 1, 2025. Congress ordered every death in custody reported in 2013; nine states reported zero in a year the auditor found 124 in four of them. Make the count a condition of every federal dollar, and publish it by agency, every quarter.
Released August 30, 2026
№ 057The Open Hand
Nearly 700 current or former heads of state and government studied in America on an exchange the State Department paid for. It is the cheapest influence a great power has ever bought, and the 2026 budget proposed cutting it by 93 percent while China pledged 60,000 scholarships to Africa in three years. Fund a standing fleet of 10,000 fully paid American degrees a year for the world's best students, Africa first, with a stake waiting at home for the ones who go back.
Released August 29, 2026
№ 056The Covenant
In 1965 American police solved 9 murders in 10. In 2022 they solved about half. Germany and Japan solve 19 in 20. Since 1965, more than 350,000 American killings have gone unsolved, about 5,000 more every year. The federal government pays local police for officers hired and drugs seized and asks nothing about cases closed. Pay for the case closed, publish the rate by city, and fund the three things that close cases: detectives, laboratories, and witnesses who live to testify.
Released August 28, 2026
№ 055The Perimeter
№ 051 promised that the stop gets its own rule. Here it is. Today an immigration stop needs no reason on the record, and an arrest that crosses a threshold, a front door, a shop's back room, a courthouse hallway, needs only a warrant one immigration officer signs for another. A federal judge said in January that isn't enough for a home. This proposal writes that into a national rule instead of a single ruling: a specific reason on the record before any stop, and a judge's warrant before any arrest that isn't made in public with consent.
Released August 27, 2026
№ 054The Covenant
Not loan forgiveness. Forgiveness pays one group of people for one decision they made, and leaves the nurse who paid her loans off, the welder who never borrowed, and the parent saving for a child with nothing. Instead, one cheque to every adult citizen, spendable only on education, anyone's education, and shrinking every year that tuition comes down. A jubilee is a reset for everyone, not a rescue for some.
Released August 26, 2026
№ 053The Long Game
Federal science funding pays for the attempt, not the result. This year, fewer than one in five early-career researchers who applied for the government's most common research grant received one. A cash prize a fraction of the cost of a single grant program once produced a private space industry that has since drawn over a billion dollars in follow-on investment. Fund more results, not more applications.
Released August 25, 2026
№ 052The Open Hand
A great power is followed for what it does, not only for what it can do. Canadians have privately funded and resettled refugees, five citizens at a time, since 1979. Americans got a pilot version in 2023, and it exists at the discretion of whichever administration is in office. Write it into law: citizens doing the welcoming, the state doing the vetting, and no change to how many are admitted.
Released August 24, 2026
№ 051The Perimeter
In five years ICE arrested 674 people who may have been American citizens, detained 121 of them and removed 70, and its own auditor found it does not systematically track any of it. Meanwhile the country argues about voter ID as if proving citizenship were hard. Issue every citizen one free card that proves one fact, and make the rule that no stop ends in a cell once the card is scanned.
Released August 23, 2026
№ 050The Dividend
The United States already publishes an annual financial report. Its auditor has refused to certify it every year since 1997, and almost no citizen has read a page of it. If every citizen is a shareholder, every citizen gets a statement.
Released August 22, 2026
№ 049The Covenant
Insurers are leaving whole states, and the state-run plans meant to be a last resort are becoming the market. A house nobody will insure is a house nobody can mortgage. Backstop the tail, price the risk honestly, and pay to make the houses survivable.
Released August 21, 2026
№ 048The Covenant
A pandemic cost America 1.2 million lives and something like $16 trillion. The preparedness budget that might have blunted it was a rounding error, and it was raided between crises, as it always is. Fund the watchtower permanently, and pay for the antibiotics nobody can sell.
Released August 20, 2026
№ 047The Open Hand
America buys munitions one year at a time, so the factories that make them cannot invest, so the capacity does not exist when it is needed. Deterrence that is visible prevents wars. Fund the production line as insurance, not as a purchase order.
Released August 19, 2026
№ 046The Perimeter
America educates the world's best engineers, then puts them in a lottery with an 85,000 cap and a green card queue measured in decades. The people we most want to keep are the ones we make wait longest, and other countries have noticed.
Released August 18, 2026
№ 045The Long Game
A law written to make government think before it builds has become a law that makes it impossible to build. The average environmental impact statement takes four and a half years, and then the lawsuit starts. Set a clock, name one agency, and shorten the window to sue.
Released August 17, 2026
№ 044The Long Game
America invented the commercial reactor and then forgot how to build one, at a cost of $35 billion for two units in Georgia. France built 56 in 15 years by building the same one 56 times. Order a fleet, fix the clock, and pay the town that takes the waste.
Released August 16, 2026
№ 043The Covenant
Americans pay roughly three times what other rich countries pay for brand-name medicine, through a pricing system so opaque that almost nobody in it knows the real price. Publish the price, pay the middlemen a fee instead of a cut, and make what nobody will make.
Released August 15, 2026
№ 042The Dividend
Taxpayers fund the riskiest years of American invention, then buy the results back at monopoly prices and hold no stake in any of it. Keep the funding. Keep the patents where they are. Take a share.
Released August 14, 2026
№ 041The Covenant
The IRS already knows what most Americans earned. It receives the W-2 before you do. Yet 100 million people pay someone to tell the government a number the government has, and the poorest lose billions in credits they never claim.
Released August 13, 2026
№ 040The Long Game
Social Security's trust fund empties around 2033, and the law then cuts every cheque by about a fifth, automatically, with no vote. Fix it while the fixes are still small, and let the fund own assets instead of only IOUs.
Released August 12, 2026
№ 039The Long Game
Low Earth orbit is a finite public resource being handed out free, first come first served, to whoever files the paperwork fastest. We auction spectrum on the ground and give away the sky. Charge for the orbit, and bond the debris.
Released August 11, 2026
№ 038The Dividend
A price on carbon is the cheapest way to cut emissions and the fastest way to lose an election. The fix is not a better argument. It is a cheque with the citizen's name on it, arriving every year, larger than their fuel bill went up.
Released August 10, 2026
№ 037The Dividend
Oil, gas and coal pay the public a royalty for minerals taken from federal land. Gold, copper, lithium and uranium pay nothing, under a law signed by Ulysses Grant. Charge for the ore, and clean up the holes.
Released August 9, 2026
№ 036The Covenant
Rural counties host the transmission lines, the mines, the reactors and the water that run the country, and get the disruption without the ownership. Guarantee them a floor of care and connection, and give them a permanent share of what they host.
Released August 8, 2026
№ 035The Dividend
Monopoly is a private tax collected from the whole public. When the government finally breaks one, the money disappears into general revenue and the public never sees it. Send it to the endowment instead, where it stays visible forever.
Released August 7, 2026
№ 034The Long Game
The West divided a river it had measured during the wettest stretch in centuries, and has been spending the difference ever since. Measure the water, let it move to where it is worth most, and pay the people who give it up.
Released August 6, 2026
№ 033The Long Game
America finances a permanent country with temporary money. The average Treasury matures in about six years, so the debt is refinanced at whatever the world charges that morning. Fund the hundred-year assets with hundred-year paper.
Released August 5, 2026
№ 032The Dividend
Upzoning creates enormous value with a signature, and hands all of it to whoever happened to own the parcel. Capture a slice of the uplift the public itself creates, build the homes, and bank the rest.
Released August 4, 2026
№ 031The Dividend
Profits move offshore, data resists definition, labor already pays. Compute is metered, physical, and sits in a building you can find. Tax it a little, and make every citizen an owner.
Released August 3, 2026
№ 030The Long Game
Ninety percent of the world's advanced chips are made on one island. America needs surge capacity it can call on, and it should buy options, not a warehouse of hardware that rots.
Released August 2, 2026
№ 029The Long Game
In 1862 America gave away federal land to build a university in every state. Do it again with compute and open models, so intelligence is infrastructure rather than a subscription.
Released August 1, 2026
№ 028The Covenant
Half of young Germans are apprentices. Two percent of young Americans are. As AI makes taught knowledge cheap, the thing you can only learn on the job becomes the scarce one.
Released July 31, 2026
№ 027The Covenant
No American should be denied a job, a loan, a home, or a medical claim by a machine alone. Explanation, human review, and appeal, in the seven places it actually matters.
Released July 30, 2026
№ 026The Covenant
America answered forty years of displacement with retraining, and the evaluations say it did not work. The one part that did work was wage insurance. Make that the main instrument.
Released July 29, 2026
№ 025The Long Game
America has no idea how many jobs machines are taking. Require large employers to report it, the way they already report layoffs, before we legislate on anecdote.
Released July 28, 2026
№ 024The Dividend
Data centers are already raising your power bill by billions. Make them pay the cost they cause, and pay the households who carry them a dividend for the load.
Released July 27, 2026
№ 023The Long Game
America has a national debt and no national balance sheet. Bind the Fund with two locks — never borrow to build it, and let every citizen's dividend rise only as the debt falls.
Released July 26, 2026
№ 022The Perimeter
America counts everyone who arrives and almost nobody who leaves. Finish the exit record Congress ordered in 1996 — it is the one thing that makes a generous visa affordable.
Released July 25, 2026
№ 021The Covenant
Fifty-nine million Americans perform a trillion dollars of unpaid care a year. Pay the ones doing the heaviest work, credit their Social Security, and stop pretending love is a funding mechanism.
Released July 24, 2026
№ 020The Dividend
The taxpayer is already the first investor in nearly every major American invention. Start taking the position that comes with it — a small, silent, permanent share for the Fund.
Released July 23, 2026
№ 019The Open Hand
Every authorization to use force expires in two years, every war is paid for while it is fought, and every dollar freed when a war ends becomes principal in the nation's endowment.
Released July 22, 2026
№ 018The Open Hand
America's immigration system punishes the people best equipped to develop the world's poorest places for going there. Stop the clock, cut the remittance toll, and turn brain drain into brain circulation.
Released July 21, 2026
№ 017The Covenant
One day a year, every citizen is paid the same amount and the nation publishes its books. The ritual is not decoration — it is what makes the Fund impossible to dismantle.
Released July 20, 2026
№ 016The Dividend
Your data is worth almost nothing. Everyone's data is worth a fortune — so pay for it collectively, as rent on a commons, not as pennies to individuals.
Released July 19, 2026
№ 015The Dividend
The airwaves are public property. Stop selling them to cover one year of spending — deposit the proceeds as principal and let the nation collect rent forever.
Released July 18, 2026
№ 014The Long Game
AI is making expertise abundant. Multiply the elite slots by shrinking them — tiered licenses, fractional professions, and status shared by the hour.
Released July 17, 2026
№ 013The Covenant
Legalize the way Americans already work — kill the moonlighting clause, make benefits ride the worker, and let the second job pay what it should.
Released July 16, 2026
№ 012The Open Hand
Negotiate visa-free travel for America's vetted residents — so citizenship is chosen for love, not logistics.
Released July 15, 2026
№ 011The Perimeter
A constitutional amendment letting sojourners choose, before they come, a visa that is faster because it is honest — temporary all the way down.
Released July 14, 2026
№ 010The Open Hand
Publish the full, honest price of war next to the price of peace — one page, every year, mailed with your taxes.
Released July 13, 2026
№ 009The Long Game
Twenty states already run permanent funds. Give all fifty the machine, and prove the national one at state scale.
Released July 12, 2026
№ 008The Long Game
Every American child born with a stake: a seeded, locked account that compounds from the birth certificate onward.
Released July 11, 2026
№ 007The Perimeter
A border that is fully seen, fast, firm, and humane — a doorbell, a lock, and a host who answers.
Released July 10, 2026
№ 006The Open Hand
Replace aid with co-ownership — America underwrites Africa's buildout, African publics own it, and both collect the dividends.
Released July 9, 2026
№ 005The Covenant
A voluntary American Year of service — rewarded with a doubled citizen's dividend for life.
Released July 4, 2026
№ 004The Covenant
Single-payer health coverage for every American citizen, from birth, for life — and honest, mandatory private coverage for guests.
Released July 4, 2026
№ 003The Perimeter
Make an American visa one of the easiest documents on earth to get — and decouple it, honestly and humanely, from citizenship.
Released July 4, 2026
№ 002The Dividend
Let founders donate startup equity to the nation's endowment when it is cheap — and take the deduction when it becomes real.
Released July 4, 2026
№ 001The Dividend
Establish the American Permanent Fund — a citizens' endowment that pays every American an equal dividend, forever.
Released July 4, 2026