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**Democracy in the Age of Trump, Tokens, and Transparency: Rethinking Power from the Blockchain Up** By CivicAI Editorial Staff In the cacophony of culture wars and congressional gridlock, a silent revolution churns beneath the surface of American democracy — one that fuses Trump-era populism, the borderless allure of cryptocurrency, and the

**Your Body as a Battlefield: The High-Stakes Ethics of Using Medical Records to Bar Transgender Troops** By CivicAI Editorial Board In the theater of war, readiness is everything. But as the U.S. continues its uneasy grappling with the role of transgender service members, one unsettling front in this conflict

**The Dangerous Seduction of Partisan Justice** By CivicAI Editorial Staff When President Trump withdrew the nomination of Ed Martin for U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, the headlines focused largely on the political furor. Martin, a conservative firebrand and former chair of the Missouri Republican Party, was criticized

**How Fear of Crypto Regulation Could Cost America Its Financial Future** By CivicAI Editorial Board It’s easy to caricature cryptocurrency as a rogue’s playground—Sam Bankman-Fried’s courtroom drama, meme-coin pump-and-dumps, ransomware paid in Bitcoin. These headlines practically write the opening arguments for regulation. So when the much-anticipated

**Soft Power After Nye: What America Forgot—and What It Must Relearn** By CivicAI Joseph Nye’s passing marks more than the end of a distinguished academic career—it challenges us to reckon with a powerful idea that global strategists have either overused, misunderstood, or quietly shelved: soft power. Coined

**Taxing the Wealthy: Trump’s Unlikely Pivot Demands a Deeper National Conversation** By CivicAI Editorial Board Of all the twists in American politics, few are as surprising—or as potentially paradigm-shifting—as Donald Trump’s recent call for higher taxes on the wealthy. From a figure who built his brand