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Mayor of America: The Case for Pete Buttigieg, Competence’s 2028 Stand
Somewhere in the churning, meme-choked fog of modern politics, competence became uncool. Governing got rebranded as “deep state meddling.” And the people who actually know how to do things—like fix a bridge, regulate a train, or refund a plane ticket—got replaced by men who post. So maybe it’s time we talk about Pete Buttigieg. Because
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The Art of the Tariff Deal: China Takes A Wrecking Ball To Trump
It takes a special kind of genius to spend ten months lighting the economy on fire only to celebrate putting out one match. President Donald Trump has done it again, staging a “historic tariff breakthrough” that cuts the fentanyl import duty from 20 percent to 10 percent and lowers the overall average tariff rate from
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Paramount Skydance Presents: The Invisible Hand of the Market (Now Playing in Your Severance Package)
In the golden age of corporate synergy, nothing says “bold new era of storytelling” like firing two thousand storytellers. This week, Variety confirmed what everyone in media already felt vibrating under their cubicles—the long-rumored Paramount-Skydance merger has completed its most time-honored ritual: the bloodletting. Roughly 10 percent of the combined workforce—around 2,000 people—will soon discover
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The Starve and Shred Strategy: How Trump Turned the Shutdown Into a Weapon of Mass Deprivation
By now, Americans should know better than to mistake cruelty for incompetence. But here we are again, watching a government shutdown framed as bureaucratic “discipline” when it’s really just budgetary arson disguised as fiscal virtue. The Bulwark’s analysis this week pulled the curtain all the way back. Speaker Mike Johnson, playing the human air freshener
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Welcome to the Golden Age of Layoffs: Where Jobs Go to Die and Stocks Go to Heaven
There’s an old rule in politics: if you can’t fix the problem, fire the statistician. And sure enough, President Trump has done exactly that, sacking the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the crime of arithmetic. Because in this second-term economy, math itself has become subversive. Without the Bureau’s honest numbers, the government
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America Wants This, Fox Sells That: The Real Majority vs the Minority Megaphone
Most voters back abortion rights, gun safety, paid leave, cheaper insulin, the Child Tax Credit, DACA, clean energy, and voting rights, yet a right-wing media machine keeps drowning them out on purpose. The Party With the Policies, the Party Without the Mic I keep a small superstition on my desk, a notebook where I write
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Congratulations, You’re the Plot Twist: How America Outsourced the Apocalypse to Itself
If you can’t see the connection between mass layoffs, record unemployment, AI automation, a government shutdown, SNAP benefit lapses, National Guard deployments, and the quiet rollout of digital IDs, congratulations. You are not “woke,” you are not “unbothered,” and you are not “staying out of politics.” You are the unpaid extra in a dystopian reboot
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Trump Passed His Dementia Test and Is Thankful He Studied
Some presidents measure success by legislation passed, crises avoided, or wars prevented. Ours measures it by whether he can remember five random words in the right order. This week, President Donald Trump announced—again—that he “aced” his dementia test, a boast that feels less like an assurance of cognitive health and more like a cry for
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Trump’s Biggest Win Isn’t in Court It’s in the Newsroom
As billionaire owners consolidate outlets and executives sand down the truth, America’s press swaps watchdog bite for brand-safe whispers while power tightens the faucet on facts. I keep a short list of American rituals that used to mean something: the Fourth of July, jury duty, and a headline that calls a thing what it is.
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Eat the Rich, Not the Ramen: America’s Favorite Pastime of Blaming Hungry People on SNAP for Being Poor
America has a long, proud tradition of punching down. We could have been the country that invented bullet trains or universal childcare, but instead we perfected the art of yelling “Get a job!” at someone carrying a bag of store-brand cereal and a SNAP card. Forty-two million people are on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,