A comprehensive analysis of how structural flaws in American democratic institutions create systemic vulnerabilities that undermine effective governance and accountability.
An analysis of how American democracy's actual power structures differ dramatically from the textbook model of checks and balances.
An analysis of how hard power (physical control), value power (economic control), and perceptive power (information control) interact to shape governance outcomes.
An analysis of how the speed advantage of executive action systematically undermines democratic deliberation and accountability mechanisms.
A detailed analysis of how congressional oversight, judicial review, military command structures, and regulatory systems fail to provide effective accountability in practice.
Detailed reform proposals addressing timescale matching, information symmetry, power distribution, and technological solutions for democratic accountability.
How AI systems might be subtly manipulating information access without your knowledge, and the epistemological challenges this creates
