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Issue 1: Building Big Things

The Utopia We Deserve
The anti-utopian utopianism of the early- to mid-twentieth century eschewed flights of fancy for concrete world-building. Now we are stuck between a…
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The Big Green Buy, Gaining Momentum
Government procurement must be reoriented away from dirty fossil fuels and toxic products toward cleaner alternatives to expand demand for such things…
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Touching Grass in Dallas
Dealey Plaza remains one of the Works Progress Administration's most overlooked masterpieces.
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Size Queen Nation
The industry for bigger, harder dicks is booming. But what are those pills, pumps, and implants really meant to address?
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Olympian Contradictions
The NHS represents the contradiction between the idealized history and the creaking present of the UK.
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Nationalization Took Time
It took a few decades for a truly national approach to health services to emerge after the creation of the National Health Service in Britain.
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Half-Assing the Belt & Road
The Belt and Road Initiative was pitched by Xi Jinping as “the project of the century.” Ten years in, it has hardly lived up to the hype. What happened?
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FDR Had Macro Tools, We Need Micro Tools
With the development of Gross Domestic Product, New Deal state planners had the macroeconomic tools they needed to take on the Great Depression. To…
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Harold Ickes's Watchful Eye
Harold Ickes was a contradictory figure: a true believer, consummate cynic, loyal public servant, and fiercely independent malcontent. We’ll need many…
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A Great Satan in this Grave
Why is Saudi Arabia, possibly the worst and most repressive country in the world, also the only place still keeping the modernist ethos alive?
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Big Public Power from the River
The Tennessee Valley Authority was about more than electrification. It was a complex project of building state and public planning capacity geared…
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Big Public Power from the Atom
Big public power in the last century applied the elemental potential of water toward social ends. The big public power of tomorrow should revolve around…
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