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Pardonpalooza: Trump’s Get Out of Jail Free Card For Those Who Helped Him Try To Steal the 2020 Election
There comes a moment in every political season when you realize the country is not being governed so much as improv’d, and the cast has decided to try audience participation. The latest spectacle arrived with a flourish of parchment and a press release drafted in what appears to be the disappointed sigh of the rule
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Democratic Socialism Is Already in Your Pantry, Your Paycheck, and Your Potholes: A World Tour for Americans Who Still Think Norway Is a Marvel Villain
There is a particular genre of American political conversation that resurfaces every election cycle, usually somewhere between the moment a Democrat mentions healthcare and the moment a Republican begins sweating like someone asked him to define “GDP.” The conversation goes like this. One person suggests the United States might benefit from policies similar to those
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THE FORTY DAY SHUTDOWN THAT TAUGHT US NOTHING EXCEPT HOW FAST A SPINE CAN DISSOLVE
There is a particular kind of exhaustion that settles into the bones after a shutdown. Not the temporary kind that passes with a nap and a glass of water. The deeper kind. The kind that feels like a national hangover where the entire country wakes up at once and asks the same question in chorus:
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Greg Abbott Files for Reelection, Texas Should File for a Restraining Order
Greg Abbott has announced, with the confidence of a man who has never once been held accountable for the weather, the grid, the cruelty, or the highway-level carnage of his own governance, that he will run for governor of Texas again. Texans did not ask for this. Texans did not pray for this. Texans did
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The Lone Star Shake Up: Why Jasmine Crockett Should Make Texas Sweat in 2026
If you listen closely, you can already hear it. That low, metallic clank coming from somewhere beneath the marble floors of Capitol Hill. That is the sound of John Cornyn’s confidence dropping into the storm drain as Texans begin whispering an idea so dangerous, so electrifying, so beautifully unhinged that it deserves its own early
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The Optimus Secession: Elon Musk Unveils the Robot That Will Replace Us, Rule Us, and Possibly Charge Us a Subscription Fee
A cyberpunk shareholder rave, a trillion dollar man, and a humanoid life form that will both eliminate poverty and make you its pet There are certain moments in history when you can feel the ground shift beneath your feet. The moon landing. The Berlin Wall. The first time someone uttered the phrase “live, laugh, love”
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Trump’s Hunger Games Presidency Hits the Supreme Court
When the most powerful man in the world fights for the right to starve his own people There are many ways a civilization can measure its decline. Breadlines. Infrastructure decay. Reality-TV personalities winning office. But there is something uniquely cursed about a United States president who refuses to pay out SNAP benefits during a shutdown,
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The Tariff King Goes to Court: When One Man’s ‘National Security’ Is Everyone Else’s Grocery Bill
The Supreme Court spent the morning doing something rare in the modern republic: pretending to remember that Congress exists. In a hearing that felt equal parts economics seminar and constitutional therapy session, the justices took up the question no one in Washington has wanted to answer for six years—can a president tax Americans by calling
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Clean Toilets, Dirty Secrets: ICE Finally Gets a Court-Ordered Makeover in Broadview
Somewhere between bureaucracy and mildew, the Constitution just won a small victory. This week, a federal judge in Chicago decided that the Bill of Rights applies even when the floors are wet. U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman issued a temporary restraining order forcing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to clean up the Broadview detention facility
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The Upscale Collapse of All’s Fair: How Star Power, Platform Reach and a Holiday Drop Couldn’t Save Ryan Murphy’s Legal Drama
A glossy woman-led firm, cameo A-listers everywhere, and a 0 % critical shockwave—this is the story of spectacle without substance Here is the paradox of 2025 streaming culture: You bring together a high-budget woman-led legal drama, you drop it on a major platform, you tune every camera for maximum gloss and you still end up