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Nancy Mace and the Charleston Airport Meltdown: A One-Woman Soap Opera the Constitution Was Never Built to Withstand
The congresswoman who once wore a Scarlet Letter to protest being insufficiently seen has now discovered an even more reliable path to attention, and it involves screaming at airport cops about her BMW. There are weeks in American politics that unfold like chapters in a serious novel, quietly advancing structural themes and inching toward institutional
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The FEMA Administrator Vanishes During a Flood, and Suddenly We’re All Supposed to Pretend This Is Fine
America asked for a functional disaster agency, and the administration handed us a shrug in a windbreaker. There is a particular stillness that happens right before the government announces a resignation. You can almost hear the PowerPoint slides being frantically re-saved under new filenames, the comms staff muttering into their sleeves, the soft metallic clang
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America’s New Hunger Games Begins, and the Prize Is Permission To Eat
Trump calls it “One Big Beautiful Bill,” but the only thing getting beautified is the balance sheet Congress cares about more than hungry families. The thing about austerity is that it never arrives dressed as cruelty. It shows up in a blazer, smiles politely, talks about discipline, and promises to fix the books. It nods
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Cornered Trump Starts Throwing Policy Spaghetti: Tariffs, Venezuela, MTG, Oh My!
Tariff reversals, Venezuela war drums, and a Truth Social tantrum at Marjorie Taylor Greene all collide in the shadow of an Epstein scandal that refuses to die The problem with political improvisation, the real danger beneath the theatrics, is not that it looks chaotic from the outside. It is that it feels orderly to the
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The New Campus Survival Skill: Duck, Cover, And Don’t Say “White Supremacy” Out Loud
Indiana discovers that if you squint hard enough, teaching racism is now suppressing intellectual diversity. The modern university used to worry about things like research output, crumbling lecture halls, and whether students would riot if the dining hall replaced curly fries with the straight, morally ambiguous kind. Indiana University Bloomington has discovered a more avant
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Trump Says Groceries Are Cheap Now, So Please Stop Looking at Your Receipts
An official memo from the alternate universe where gas is two dollars, milk is basically free, and your checking account is lying to you/ Americans have endured many strange plot twists in public life, but few moments rival the latest presidential message that rolled out like a weather alert from a parallel dimension. Donald Trump,
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Democrats End a 43-Day Shutdown by Arguing Over the Debris
There are many ways to end a government shutdown. You can compromise. You can capitulate. Or, if you are the Democratic Party, you can split into factions and hold a family intervention in the middle of a burning building. The forty-three-day shutdown ended the way every American civics textbook secretly dreams: not with a unifying
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From Aloy to All-In: When Horizon Goes MMO and Mobile—and the Monsters Charge
I have a confession to make: I love MMOs. Give me the dark parking lot of EverQuest, the regimented raiding towers of World of Warcraft, the sprawling social village of Final Fantasy XIV—I’ve sat through login queues, ignored dinner invites, and hasta-la-vida’d sleep for one last respawn. So when Sony Interactive Entertainment and NCSOFT revealed
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Islam Isn’t Violent: State Sponsored Religion Is Violent
THE GOSPEL OF SELECTIVE OUTRAGE AND OTHER HOLY TRADITIONS WE PRETEND NOT TO NOTICE Religious superiority is the type of moral panic that spreads through America like pollen in spring, coating every surface, irritating every conversation, and triggering sneezes of self righteousness that echo for miles. The current strain is Islamophobia, a recycled political contagion
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Trump Tries To Probe More People Without Consent In Florida
There is a certain kind of breaking news alert that feels less like journalism and more like a smoke alarm that only goes off after the house is already engulfed. The latest comes from the Southern District of Florida, the federal jurisdiction that has spent the past decade juggling everything from Mar a Lago search