Essays & explainers
The longer answer
A dispatch says what happened once. An essay is for when the same thing has happened often enough to mean something.
Nothing published yet
The first essay is due once enough drives have run to show a pattern worth arguing about. Writing one before that would be publishing an opinion, and there are enough of those already.
What gets written here
Five kinds of piece, and nothing outside them — a movement blog that writes about whatever is in the news that week stops being a record of anything.
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