When the Power Goes Out, What Must Keep Working?
The electric grid has become continuity infrastructure for modern society. Our institutions have not clearly assigned responsibility for protecting everything that depends on it.
The Stability Brief
Essays on American institutions and the social conditions of democratic life under pressure, drawn from history and lived experience.
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