🏛️ Architecture & Design Mar 18, 2026 · Rachel Paese

Power is designed

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In recent weeks, renewed attention on the Epstein files has resurfaced a familiar and unsettling truth: abuse of power never exists in isolation. It is sustained by networks of wealth, reputation, institutions, and silence.



What’s striking is not that powerful individuals behaved badly. History is painfully consistent on that point. What is difficult to absorb, even now, is the scale of harm survivors describe, and the realization that many of these stories were told for decades before they w

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