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The Neighborhoods That Burn First: How Heat Islands Map Inequality

Heat maps inequality. Urban heat islands concentrate thermal risk in the same neighborhoods that suffered historic disinvestment....

https://sol-meridian.gothar.com/articles/ecologies/urban-heat-islands

#Climate #UrbanPlanning
Urban Heat Islands - ecologies analysis and policy implications
January 11, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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One Drought, Many Borders: Why the Americas Need Institutions as Big as Their Problems

Climate, migration, trade — the Americas are entwined

https://sol-meridian.gothar.com/articles/latitudes/pan-american-solidarity

#Climate #Hemisphere
Pan‑American Solidarity - latitudes analysis and policy implications
January 10, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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The War America Won: Ukraine and the Paradox of Strategic Defeat

Russia's war in Ukraine has exposed not just the limits of Western unity, but the deeper fractures in...

https://sol-meridian.gothar.com/articles/governance/the-war-america-won-ukraine-strategic-paradox

#Geopolitics #Ukraine
A fractured chessboard where pieces from multiple games overlap, energy pipelines, microchips, and diplomatic cables tangled across Eastern European terrain
January 9, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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Stranded: Who Gets to Move

Public transportation is social infrastructure. How we design and fund it determines who can access jobs, education, and opportunity.

https://sol-meridian.gothar.com/articles/urban-systems/transit-justice

#Transit #Equity
Transit Justice - urban-systems analysis and policy implications
January 8, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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The Activists Who Said They Weren't

For forty years, the conservative legal movement has sold a deceptively simple

https://sol-meridian.gothar.com/articles/governance/the-activists-who-said-they-werent-conservative-legal-movement

#JudicialActivism #ConservativeLegalMovement
The Supreme Court building with constitutional text and judicial opinions layered in the background, rendered in sepia tones
January 7, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Brackeen: The Case Against Tribal Sovereignty

Voting rights about to vanish? This case, *Louisiana v. Callais*, could gut the Voting Rights Act....

https://sol-meridian.gothar.com/articles/governance/the-case-that-wants-to-erase-the-map-callais-voting-rights

#VotingRights #Redistricting
A congressional district map of Louisiana with voting rights symbols and Supreme Court building in the background
January 6, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Inventing Tradition: Originalism as Judicial Activism

Text, history, and structure are supposed to constrain judicial discretion. On the Roberts Court, they increasingly...

https://sol-meridian.gothar.com/articles/governance/constitutionalists-trap-roberts-court

#SupremeCourt #ConstitutionalLaw
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January 5, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Madrid After Miami: How Spain Can Become the Hemisphere''s Other Capital

Miami, Latin America's capital? Maybe not for long. Could Spain steal the crown?...

https://sol-meridian.gothar.com/articles/latitudes/madrid-after-miami-hemispheric-capital

#MadridMiamiCompetition #HemisphericCapital
Split view of Madrid's skyline and Miami's skyline connected by air routes and fiber optic cables
January 4, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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The Consent Economy: Big Tech vs the People

The country is a mirror, but the mirror charges admission. From lobbying ledgers to algorithmic feeds, from data...

https://sol-meridian.gothar.com/articles/governance/consent-economy-big-tech-people-democracy

#BigTech #SurveillanceCapitalism
Archive ledger pages overlaid with digital data streams flowing toward glass corporate towers
January 3, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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The Right to Shade: How Spanish Cities Built a Heat Commons America Forgot

The summer map is a moral document. Spain's heat commons redesigns streets for civic...

https://sol-meridian.gothar.com/articles/urban-systems/the-right-to-shade-spanish-american-heat-commons

#HeatPolicy #UrbanDesign
Tree-lined street in a Spanish city with dappled shade covering pedestrians and outdoor café seating during golden hour
January 3, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Power Lines as Colonial Control

Puerto Rico's flickering lights reveal the United States without makeup. Citizens who vote but cannot choose their president....

https://sol-meridian.gothar.com/articles/governance/the-colony-of-kilowatts-puerto-rico-grid-democracy

#PuertoRico #ElectricalGrid
Solar panels on Puerto Rican rooftops with the island's mountainous landscape in the background, bathed in golden sunlight
January 2, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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The Long Reverberation: How the Spanish Civil War and the Franco Years Shaped Latin America

Spain's Civil War didn't end at the Ebro. It crossed the Atlantic:...

https://sol-meridian.gothar.com/articles/latitudes/long-reverberation-spanish-civil-war-franco-latin-america

#SpanishCivilWar #Franco
Spanish Civil War's Atlantic reverberations - Republican exiles rebuilding Latin America's institutions
January 1, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Neighbors at Arm's Length

Latin America: America's frenemy? Europe gets ally status, LatAm? Just "neighbor." Double standard much? This is how US policy...

https://sol-meridian.gothar.com/articles/latitudes/neighbors-at-arms-length-us-latin-america-double-standard

#ForeignPolicy #LatinAmerica
A hemispheric map showing the Americas with diplomatic cables and trade routes connecting North and South America, rendered in warm earth tones
December 31, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Why Hispaniola Kept Changing Flags: Spain, France, and the Road to Haiti

The island didn't flip-flop between Spain and France. Two territories, four treaties, one revolution. West...

https://sol-meridian.gothar.com/articles/latitudes/why-hispaniola-kept-changing-flags

#Haiti #DominicanRepublic
Why Hispaniola Kept Changing Flags - Historical map showing territorial divisions between Spanish Santo Domingo and French Saint-Domingue
December 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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The Activist Card: Judicial Hypocrisy

The term judicial activism is the judiciary's favorite insult and our public square's dullest knife. A movement...

https://sol-meridian.gothar.com/articles/governance/the-art-of-calling-someone-else-an-activist

#JudicialActivism #ConservativeLegalMovement
Supreme Court justices' portraits reflected in mirrors with legal documents and constitutional text layered in the composition
December 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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The Ledger and the Labyrinth: Jared Kushner, Trumpworld, and the New Arithmetic of Power

Kushner's post-office ledger: $3B from Gulf sovereigns, $157M in fees before...

https://sol-meridian.gothar.com/articles/governance/ledger-labyrinth-kushner-trumpworld-power

#Corruption #ConflictsOfInterest
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December 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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The Art of Witness: How Experts, Archives, and Doctrine Restored Indian Country

In American Indian law, the most transformative victories seldom arrive with parades. They...

https://sol-meridian.gothar.com/articles/governance/art-of-witness-expert-archives-doctrine

#IndianLaw #McgirtVOklahoma
Archive room with treaty documents and historical maps
December 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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America''s Other Founding: The Spanish Story

America's origin story skips Spain entirely. But the decisive drama—the social inventions, the legal improvisations, the...

https://sol-meridian.gothar.com/articles/latitudes/the-republic-in-the-spanish-rooms

#SpanishBorderlands #Post1848America
Interior of Spanish colonial building with arched doorways leading to sunlit courtyard
December 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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English-only? Nope. 20% of Americans speak another language at home. Imagine the possibilities of truly embracing bilingualism. Good law? Good...

https://sol-meridian.gothar.com/articles/governance/the-other-official-language-is-reality-bilingual-republic

#BilingualGovernance #LanguageAccess
A multilingual street scene with public signage in English and Spanish, showing civic engagement and community interaction
December 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Thirty million workers bound by noncompetes; one quarter licensed with credentials that won't cross state lines. These are not guardrails—they are tollgates. A Friction Index...

https://sol-meridian.gothar.com/articles/governance/labor-mobility-price-of-movement

#LatinAmerica #LaborMarkets
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December 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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How Washington treats Europe like a roommate and Latin America like a distant cousin—and what it would take to change the house rules.

https://sol-meridian.gothar.com/articles/latitudes/the-double-standard-doctrine-us-hemispheric-policy

#ForeignPolicy #LatinAmerica
Split image showing European and Latin American flags with diplomatic and trade symbols representing asymmetric U.S. policy treatment
December 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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'De-risking' entered the catechism, and procurement teams began measuring distance again—how far the ship must travel.

https://sol-meridian.gothar.com/articles/latitudes/the-de-risked-hemisphere-latin-america-nearshoring

#Nearshoring #SupplyChains
Modern manufacturing facility with Mexican and American flags, shipping containers and industrial equipment representing hemispheric trade
December 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Trump's Columbus Day move? It's performance art, not policy. He *didn't* rename it, he *performed* it. What does that even MEAN? And what should a...

https://sol-meridian.gothar.com/articles/governance/the-politics-of-a-name-columbus-day-proclamation

#ColumbusDay #IndigenousPeoplesDay
Split image showing Italian-American community celebration alongside Indigenous peoples' gathering, representing dual histories
December 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Tegucigalpa? Blank stares. \U0001F62C Why U.S. newsrooms treat Latin America as a blind spot. Is it ignorance? Indifference? Or something more insidious...

https://sol-meridian.gothar.com/articles/latitudes/neighbors-and-exceptions-us-latin-america-foreign-policy

#ForeignPolicy #LatinAmerica
Split image showing detailed European map alongside sparse Latin American map, symbolizing knowledge gap
December 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Netflix vs Paramount Skydance for Warner Bros. Discovery. Kushner financing. Gulf sovereign capital engineered around CFIUS. A president who treats approval as...

https://sol-meridian.gothar.com/articles/governance/hbo-sale-democracy-lease-warner-paramount-trump

#MediaOwnership #Corruption
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December 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM