Local News, Part 1: The Civic Unraveling

Since 2005, America has lost nearly 40 percent of its local newspapers. What it's really losing is harder to quantify — and far more consequential.

Feb 20 • Matt Haggman

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The Open Thread — AI Risks, Rare Earths, and Local News

Dario Amodei's five AI threats, the government's unprecedented equity stakes, and a preview of our series on local journalism's decline.

Feb 3 • Matt Haggman

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January 2026

War & Peace, Pt 3: Rebuilding the Global Order

Part 3 of 3: Solutions — As the world rearms, Mark Carney declared the 80-year-old rules-based order dead. Three worldviews now compete to shape what…

Jan 27 • Matt Haggman

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War & Peace, Pt 2: From 1989's Hope to Rearmament

Part 2 of 3: The Forces — How the optimism unleashed by the end of the Cold War unraveled — and why the world is arming again.

Jan 16 • Matt Haggman

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War & Peace, Pt 1: The World Rearms

Part 1 of 3: The Problem — After 80 years without global war, nations are rearming at a record pace, just as the guardrails that prevented catastrophe…

Jan 9 • Matt Haggman

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Solving For - A note as the year begins

As the new year begins — and Solving For enters its first full year — I wanted to take a moment to thank you, and share what we’re aiming to do in 2026.

Jan 1 • Matt Haggman

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December 2025

College Sports: The Fork in the Road

Part 3 of 3: Solutions - The old system is gone. What comes next?

Dec 23, 2025 • Matt Haggman

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College Sports: How the NCAA was Born of Death and Money — Death was the Easy Part

Part 2 of 3: The Forces — How the Money Problem Finally Won.

Dec 15, 2025 • Matt Haggman

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College Sports: How It Was Broken By a $60 Video Game

Part 1 of 3: The Problem — Ed O'Bannon's discovery triggered a legal revolution that shattered the facade that had masked college sports' central…

Dec 5, 2025 • Matt Haggman

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November 2025

The Open Thread: AI Safety Just Crossed a Line

An AI threat no longer theoretical, your input at the three-month mark, and a preview of our next series: college sports going fully professional.

Nov 20, 2025 • Matt Haggman

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Congress: Making Democracy Competitive Again

Part 3 of 3: How three structural reforms could break the duopoly, restore real competition, and make the People's House accountable again.

Nov 17, 2025 • Matt Haggman

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Congress: How We Got Stuck

Part 2 of 3. How the vast majority of races for the U.S. House became uncompetitive through gerrymandering, a supine Supreme Court, geographic sorting…

Nov 7, 2025 • Matt Haggman

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