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Insights

Insights Series and Every Title in Order

Multi-part essay series on policy, recovery, and systems change. Every published title is listed below. Pick one to start reading.

Each series is written in parts that build on each other. You can start at Part 1 and read in order, or jump to any title that fits what you need today. New parts show up here as soon as they publish.

Artificial Intelligence & Society

Essays on how AI affects identity, trust, institutions, and human accountability when software gains power through permission, speed, and scale.

14 essays

  1. Part 1 The AI Identity Problem: Can AI Agents Hijack Your Digital Identity?
  2. Part 2 Deepfake Selfies: Why Face Checks Fail
  3. Part 3 The Identity Recovery Trap
  4. Part 4 When Seeing Is No Longer Believing
  5. Part 5 Dear AI Developers: Of Course the Agents Cheated. You Rewarded Them for It.
  6. Part 6 When the Government Can Make the Evidence
  7. Part 7 What If Most of Us Don't Have to Work Anymore?
  8. Part 8 Who Gets Rich When AI Does the Work?
  9. Part 9 How the Machines Actually Take the Work: Robotics, AI, and Building the Post-Work World
  10. Part 10 When the Internet Is in Our Brains
  11. Part 11 Immortality or an Avatar of Ourselves?
  12. Part 12 When Learning Becomes Invisible
  13. Part 13 What Gives Life Meaning When Work Is Optional?
  14. Part 14 What Happens When AI Speeds Up Medical Discovery?

Go to the Artificial Intelligence & Society page →

Drug Legalization Series

Andrew Drasen's multi-part essay series on drug legalization, regulation, harm reduction, reentry, and evidence-based drug policy reform.

38 essays

  1. Part 1 Drug Legalization Isn’t Endorsement. It’s Regulation and Harm Reduction.
  2. Part 1.5 Legalization vs Decriminalization vs Regulation: Drug Policy Explained
  3. Part 2 Drug Felony Consequences After Release
  4. Part 3 Can You Vote or Own a Gun With a Drug Felony?
  5. Part 4 What Drug Legalization and Regulation Actually Buys Us
  6. Part 5 How Illegal Drug Markets Power Gangs and Cartels
  7. Part 6 Tusi (Pink Cocaine), Xylazine, and THC Analogues: Why Enforcement Can’t Keep Up
  8. Part 7 Recovery Lockbox: Fund Addiction Treatment Without Raising Taxes
  9. Part 8 Fear Is Not a Policy: The Known Failure vs the Imagined Risk
  10. Part 9 What Regulation Would Actually Look Like
  11. Part 10 With Drug Legalization, Accountability Still Exists
  12. Part 11 Prevention That Isn’t Propaganda
  13. Part 12 Overdose Risk After Prison Release
  14. Part 13 Mental Health, Housing, and Despair
  15. Part 14 A Regulated Pharmacy Model for High-Risk Substances
  16. Part 15 Arguments Against Drug Legalization: The Hard Objections, Answered Directly
  17. Part 16 How to Run a Drug Legalization Pilot Program Without Betting the Farm
  18. Part 17 Drug Decriminalization Case Studies: What Worked and What Failed
  19. Part 18 Public Health, Not Moral Panic - Building a Public Health Drug Policy That Actually Reduces Harm
  20. Part 19 This Is Already Being Administered - The Myth That Regulation Is Too Complex to Run
  21. Part 20 Urgency Without Panic - Why This Can't Wait Another Decade
  22. Part 21 Drug Legalization Is Bipartisan: Political Reality, Not Political Fantasy
  23. Part 22 Public Buy-In Is Built, Not Waited For: How Public Opinion Actually Shifts on Uncomfortable Drug Policy
  24. Part 23 What Failure Looks Like If We Don't Change: Projecting the Status Quo Forward
  25. Part 24 The Ethical Case for Regulation - What We Owe People We Know Will Use Drugs
  26. Part 25 Punishing Pain or Saving Lives - The Real Choice in Drug Policy Reform
  27. Part 26 Protecting Youth and Families - Youth Drug Prevention Through Age Controls, Packaging, Marketing, and Liability
  28. Part 27 Drug Impaired Driving Laws and Workplace Safety - How Regulation Strengthens Enforcement Where It Matters Most
  29. Part 28 Preventing Big Tobacco 2.0: Cannabis Marketing Restrictions for a Regulated Drug Market
  30. Part 29 Shrinking the Black Market - How Regulated Drug Supply Undercuts Illegal Markets Without Naivety
  31. Part 30 Measuring Outcomes Without Surveillance - Public Health Data Privacy Without a Punitive State
  32. Part 31 Federal, State, and Local Pathways - How Reform Actually Moves Under Existing Law
  33. Part 32 How to Talk About Drug Policy Without Losing the Public
  34. Part 33 The One-Page Case for Drug Regulation - The Executive Summary Policymakers Actually Read
  35. Part 34 Cannabis Product Liability and Risk Management - Who Is Liable in a Regulated System
  36. Part 35 International Drug Treaties - Constraints, Flexibility, and the Legal Workarounds Countries Actually Use
  37. Part 36 What Success Looks Like at 5, 10, and 20 Years - Drug Policy Reform Outcomes That Matter
  38. Part 37 Drug Legalization Series Final Wrap-Up: A Drug Policy Reform Plan That Can Actually Work

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Wisconsin Justice & Reentry

An honest look at Wisconsin justice: prisons, reentry, supervision, laws, lawmakers, agents, cops, defenders, and policies that fail or hold.

8 essays

  1. Part 1 Wisconsin’s Prison, Reentry, and Supervision Machine
  2. Part 2 The Bottleneck of Bureaucracy: How Wisconsin Moves the Prison Pressure Around
  3. Part 3 A Reentry Story: Part 1 - Coming Home After Ten Years
  4. Part 4 How DAI Scores You Into Max, Medium, and Minimum
  5. Part 5 Flock Cameras in Wisconsin: Who Votes, Who Pays, and What's Coming Next
  6. Part 6 Wisconsin Program Waitlists and Short Sentences
  7. Part 9 Truth in Sentencing and Losing Street Time in Wisconsin
  8. Wisconsin Justice System Definitions

Go to the Wisconsin Justice & Reentry page →