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Government Shutdowns Are Built on a Myth. Here’s the Reality.
Why we intentionally crash our government for political leverage—and the human cost of a design choice
 • Jason Edwards
Here’s What I Would Build: Education
P4.2.3: Four branches, one system. What professional governance design actually looks like.
 • Jason Edwards
What Is Education Even For?
P4.2.2: You can't design a system without agreeing on the goal
 • Jason Edwards
Course Correction
Returning to Structural Work
 • Jason Edwards
Democracy Can’t Learn
US Democracy’s Fundamental Flaw
 • Jason Edwards
I Dropped Out Because I Was ‘Stupid.’ Then I Became a Systems Engineer.
P4.2.1 When failure has a pattern, the problem is the system—not the student.
 • Jason Edwards
Building While Treading Water
P1.6: Democracy's Hardest Problem
 • Jason Edwards

December 2025

The Architecture of Executive Power: How the War on Terror Built the Authoritarian Toolkit
P1.7.2 Between 2001-2008, neoconservatives designed permanent emergency powers. They never imagined who might use them next.
 • Jason Edwards
The Neoconservative Architecture of American Authoritarianism: A Forensic Analysis
P1.7.1: A comprehensive examination of the institutional infrastructure built between 2001-2008 and its exploitation 2017-present
 • Jason Edwards
Legislative Servitude: How Transparency Became a Coercion Tool (Redux)
P1.1.redux And What Would Actually Free Congress to Govern
 • Jason Edwards
Players Making the Rules
P1.5: A structural blueprint to replace the congressional honor system
 • Jason Edwards
We Want a Functional Government
It’s been 250 years. Time for an update.
 • Jason Edwards
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