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What If Jesus Voted? Immigration, Healthcare, and Feeding the Hungry Would Win
He said welcome the stranger, heal the sick, and give to the poor, which sounds a lot like policy priorities and not a Sunday slogan. I did not grow up with a theology degree. I grew up with casseroles at funerals, a choir that sang off key with conviction, and a rotating cast of adults
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Sudden Silence From Hunter Biden Outrage: How the Trumps Turned Public Office into Private Equity
America loves a good family business story—until it involves the government, a few billion in Gulf money, and a golf tournament sponsored by a monarchy. For years, the public has been treated to breathless coverage of Hunter Biden’s laptop, that Rosetta Stone of speculation and projection. But while every congressional hearing and cable chyron has
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The Forest Hills Compact: How the Left Finally Learned to Fill a Stadium Thanks To Mamdani, Bernie Sanders, and AOC
It takes a certain kind of political gravity to fill Forest Hills Stadium with hope. Not the campaign-slogan kind, but the kind that hums under the skin, the kind that makes people believe power might still be something they can touch. On a humid New York afternoon, tens of thousands showed up for Zohran Mamdani’s
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Freedom, Firewalls, and Freefall: How Trump’s Week in Power Looked Like a Season Finale Written by Kafka
There are weeks in American politics that feel like historical footnotes, and there are weeks that feel like the Constitution was left in a microwave. This one was the latter. By midweek, the Trump administration managed to detain a journalist, nationalize TikTok through a handshake with Xi, pay the military during a government shutdown, and
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The Basket Was Too Small: America’s Deplorable MAGA Problem Is a Feature, Not a Bug
There was a time when Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” remark was treated as a political scandal, a supposed gaffe that confirmed her elitism. The pundits clutched pearls, the right performed outrage, and the press dissected it like a frog in biology class. But looking back, she wasn’t wrong; she was being polite. If anything,
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Zohran Mamdani: Building Bridges While The Ignorant Builds Walls
If you walked into Astoria today and asked what it looks like when a politician actually organizes for the people—not the patrons, not the press hits, but the ten-ants—they’d mention one name more than any other: Zohran Mamdani. Born in Queens, raised between Kampala and Doha, organizer-turned–New York State Assembly member, now casting a wide
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Divide, Distract, Deregulate, Disappear: Your Anger Was Focus-Grouped
Culture-war noise keeps you busy while antitrust is gutted, noncompetes spread, and public money builds luxury towers. The Hand in Your Pocket Is Wearing a Cufflink The oldest magic trick in politics begins with a sigh and ends with your wallet. The sigh is theatrical, “What is happening to our great nation?”, and the wallet
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Genuflecting Giants: How the Right, the Media & Big Tech Bungled Their Own Catechism to Worship Trump’s Tiny Orbs
There’s a peculiar, humiliating ritual underway in Washington—and it’s not about crowns or scepters so much as knee-bends. The entire ecosystem of Republicans, big media empires, and corporations is tilting toward Donald Trump with a devotion that erases the very principles they once claimed as foundational. They weren’t just political allies—they were self-proclaimed guardians of
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Trump’s The Apprentice: Kremlin Edition
It took three years, two wars, and one canceled summit for America’s Strongman-in-Chief to finally pretend to stand up to his idol—and even now, it looks more like performance art than policy. The White House has slapped sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil, Russia’s two biggest oil arteries and the bankroll of Vladimir Putin’s imperial cosplay.
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Theocracy Is So 1095 AD: Why I Defend Your Right to Pray So I’m Free Not To
An atheist’s field guide to keeping the pulpit off the payroll and the state out of your soul I’m an atheist. Not the hat-throwing, slogan-on-a-bumper kind—more the “coffee, quiet, and a stubborn allergy to being preached at by anyone with a lanyard” variety. I have no congregation, no creed, and no appetite for a government-approved