Great read. The first sentence in this piece says enough: “Membership in a nation is supposed to be a guarantee of equality and human rights.” But what is membership anyway, besides a signifier of something that is not, in fact, human? It’s _...Read More_

"In 2019, a German journalist named Bastian Berbner wrote an article about an experiment in Ireland called a “citizens’ assembly.” Starting in 2013, “normal” Irish people — mailmen, baristas — were recruited from across the country to sit _...Read More_

>"Taiwan is reinventing the consent of the governed."

It is dysfunctional to think of citizenship as a form of blanket membership in a national club; instead, citizenship has grown to be a measure of modulated access to a cluster of rights.

>"San Francisco residents will be casting ballots in November to determine if the city should be allowing 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in local elections."