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The issue map for democracy

Browse issue maps for democracy, climate, misinformation, public power, and future community deep dives.

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Democracy

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Institutional sabotage as patriotism

Tracks how routine distrust of institutions turns into claims that valid elections, courts, prosecutors, agencies, and public servants are illegitimate by default.

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Courts

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Institutional sabotage as patriotism

Tracks how routine distrust of institutions turns into claims that valid elections, courts, prosecutors, agencies, and public servants are illegitimate by default.

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Climate

Climate 101Launch asset

The few facts before the policy fight

A reusable starter page: climate is changing, humans are the main driver, impacts are already visible, and policy choices determine how costly this gets.

Local riskTemplate

What climate change costs close to home

A local-impact template connecting heat, smoke, water, flood risk, insurance, public budgets, and emergency planning.

Tradeoff briefTemplate

Solutions without magic thinking

A policy brief format that asks what works, what it costs, who pays, who benefits, and what opposition arguments deserve a fair answer.

Climate mythSource checked

Cold weather disproves warming

Weather is local and short-term. Climate is the long-term pattern. A cold week does not erase global temperature, ocean heat, ice, and sea-level records.

Policy claimIn review

Climate action kills the economy

Policy can be expensive, but so are heat deaths, flood damage, insurance retreat, crop losses, grid failures, and delayed infrastructure upgrades.

Narrative watchActive

Solution denial

Maps climate arguments that no longer deny warming outright, but insist every practical response is impossible, corrupt, or economically suicidal.

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Media

Climate 101Launch asset

The few facts before the policy fight

A reusable starter page: climate is changing, humans are the main driver, impacts are already visible, and policy choices determine how costly this gets.

Climate mythSource checked

Cold weather disproves warming

Weather is local and short-term. Climate is the long-term pattern. A cold week does not erase global temperature, ocean heat, ice, and sea-level records.

Narrative watchActive

Institutional sabotage as patriotism

Tracks how routine distrust of institutions turns into claims that valid elections, courts, prosecutors, agencies, and public servants are illegitimate by default.

Narrative watchActive

Solution denial

Maps climate arguments that no longer deny warming outright, but insist every practical response is impossible, corrupt, or economically suicidal.

Deep dive candidateCandidate

Anti-vax movement pathways

Separates legitimate concern about health agencies from claims that erase evidence, risk, and the public-health consequences of organized distrust.

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Rights

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Health

Local riskTemplate

What climate change costs close to home

A local-impact template connecting heat, smoke, water, flood risk, insurance, public budgets, and emergency planning.

Deep dive candidateCandidate

Anti-vax movement pathways

Separates legitimate concern about health agencies from claims that erase evidence, risk, and the public-health consequences of organized distrust.

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Power

Tradeoff briefTemplate

Solutions without magic thinking

A policy brief format that asks what works, what it costs, who pays, who benefits, and what opposition arguments deserve a fair answer.

Policy claimIn review

Climate action kills the economy

Policy can be expensive, but so are heat deaths, flood damage, insurance retreat, crop losses, grid failures, and delayed infrastructure upgrades.