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The Soft Landing Just Broke Its Landing Gear: Why the Economy Is Eating the Little Guy
We are told the plane is landing smoothly, but the passengers in coach just fell through the floor. If you listen closely to the hum of the American economic engine, you will notice a terrifying new sound. It is not the roar of a bull market or the purr of productivity. It is the grinding
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The Avengers Assemble to Save Cinema from the Algorithm: Why Hollywood Just Sent an Anonymous Ransom Note to Congress
The call is coming from inside the beach house. A secret cabal of A-list directors is begging the government to stop Netflix from turning Warner Bros. into a content sludge factory, while the President tries to cast the winner like a reality show finale. There is a specific genre of panic that only exists in
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The Pipe Bomber Was Just a Guy Named Brian: A Mystery Solved by the League of Extraordinary Grifters
It turns out the “Deep State” operative who planted bombs on January 5th wasn’t a spectral fed or a Antifa super-soldier. He was a guy from Virginia with a Nissan Sentra and a rewards card. We have reached the season finale of the great American conspiracy theory, and the writers have truly outdone themselves with
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The People v. The Vengeance Machine: A Comedy of Errors with a Body Count
When a grand jury decides to go off-script, the director throws a chair. The most dangerous sound in a democracy isn’t a gunshot or a siren. It’s the polite cough of a grand jury in Norfolk, Virginia, looking at a prosecutor and effectively saying, “Yeah, we’re not gonna do that.” This week, something almost folkloric
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The Cartography of Coercion: How the Supreme Court Just Turned Texas into a Republican Fortress
Democracy isn’t dying in darkness; it’s being rezoned in broad daylight with a high-resolution plotter. Somewhere in a windowless room in Austin, under the hum of fluorescent lights and the whir of cooling fans, a team of political cartographers is high-fiving. They have just pulled off the heist of the century, and they didn’t even
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The United States of Amnesia: Importing the European Nursing Home Model to Save the Snowflakes
When the goal is to turn a dynamic superpower into a gated community for the frightened, you end up importing the stagnation along with the prejudice. There is a specific kind of architectural madness currently gripping the West Wing, a design flaw in the blueprint of the new American century that would be laughable if