In Praise of the Second-Hand Everything

Repair, resale, and the library of things: the circular economy is not a sacrifice. It is an upgrade. The details, assembled from interviews and documents reviewed by The News Tribune, sketch a picture more textured than the headline suggests.

There is a version of this debate worth having, and it is not the one currently being staged for the cameras.

You don't rebuild trust with a signature. You rebuild it with a schedule.

History offers no guarantees here, only rhymes. But the rhymes are getting harder to ignore.

The wider picture

We can choose differently. That is the uncomfortable, liberating truth beneath the noise: none of this is inevitable.