Trump’s Executive Order Isn’t About Crime. It’s About Crushing Democracy.
Militarized policing, federal overreach, and the slow death of civilian oversight.
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A War on Welfare, Wrapped in Fatphobia
How the Wall Street Journal dresses up fatphobia and class contempt as nutrition policy
The Midterms Are Coming. The GOP Is Going to Cheat.
What the GOP is planning for 2026 and 2028 makes 2020 look quaint.
No, Tom Friedman, Robotaxis Won't Save Democracy
How the New York Times' star columnist invented a new political identity to avoid confronting the realities of Trump's America
America's Next Top Conman
Trump wasn’t an accident. He was a feature, not a bug.
Rubio Isn’t Ending Censorship. He’s Ending Oversight
Rubio’s latest screed proves the right’s problem isn’t censorship. It’s accountability.
Trump’s Ukraine Plan Is Just the Moscow Memo With a New Header
The U.S. isn’t brokering peace—it’s rebranding capitulation.
Chip Wars Are the New Cold War
Embargoes didn’t stop the Soviets, and they won’t stop AI in China.
Trump Has Not Been Proven Right About Pretty Much Everything
The Telegraph’s Trump apologia by Liz Truss trades facts for fantasy and calls it insight.
Harvard Didn’t Blink. The Fight Starts Here.
Harvard stood its ground. Now every university faces a choice: comply or resist.
What Happened to the Exhausted Majority?
Why two-thirds of the public just walked away from the noise
The Crisis Machine
A culture addicted to escalation can’t plan for anything else.
The Epistemic Costs of Erratic Empire
When reality loses meaning, the system stalls by design.
America, the Isolated
This is a superpower in freefall—self-sabotaging through tariffs, jingoism, and imperial fantasy.