Politics and Government

Just as government is needed to help markets function efficiently and fairly, government is also necessary to facilitate a thriving commons – through regulatory oversight, access mandates, taxes and due process. Yet a key point of the commons movement is that government is not the sole means for fulfilling the aspirations of “we the people.”

April 6, 2006

How to Create a Real Ownership Society

As the right promotes a corporate-controlled vision of an "ownership society," other observers explore what a true ownership society would look like.

March 24, 2006

What If Prisons Were Preventable?

March 15, 2006

Transforming American Law to Promote Preservation of the Earth

If we are going to save our planet's ecosystems, we must change the core structure of the common law that arose in the nineteenth century and still governs our legal system.