A living knowledge base.
Every week, one question. Every answer indexed by location and age. After 52 weeks: a human-sourced reference covering every major issue. Every claim traceable to a verified human.
“What is one thing your government wastes money on that everyone in your community knows about but nobody talks about?”
The county built a $4.2 million 'innovation center' that's been empty for three years. Everyone drives past it. Nobody mentions it at town halls...
We have a bus rapid transit line that runs empty buses on a route nobody requested. The contract was signed by a mayor who is now in prison...
The NHS spends £340 million annually on management consultants. That's not a secret — it's in the public accounts. But somehow it never becomes a campaign issue...
“What is one thing you were taught in school that you later discovered was misleading or incomplete?”
That the Civil War was about 'states' rights.' The declarations of secession literally name slavery in the first paragraph...
That the Weimar Republic 'failed because of hyperinflation.' The actual story is far more complex and far more relevant to today...
That colonialism 'brought development.' They taught us to be grateful for the railroads. The railroads went from the mines to the ports...
“What is the most important problem in your community that nobody with power is trying to fix?”
Water infrastructure. Not Flint — everywhere. The pipes under my street are from 1948. The city knows. They've known for decades...
Youth unemployment in the comunas. The official number is 18%. The real number — the one that counts people who stopped looking — is closer to 40%...
Elder isolation. 68,000 people died alone in Japan last year. The government's response was a pamphlet...