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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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Trump Says “Everything Is Fine” As The Cost Of Living Sky Rockets And Jobs Disappear
When reality raises the bill, you can gaslight the country or govern for it. Doing both is not a plan. The country knows the difference between a sales pitch and a receipt. We have been stuck in the pitch again, the kind where a leader tries to hypnotize prices into behaving by announcing that they
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Trump’s Newest Budget Airline: Governance by Hostage Situation
When starving people didn’t work, Republicans threatened to ground the planes, cancel the flights, and blame the weather Let us begin with the great civic mystery of our era. Why does this government, allegedly created to protect life, liberty, and a functioning transportation system, keep behaving like a discount airline CEO who learned management from
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Trump The Commander in Chaos: How One Man With Thirty Four Felonies Is Selling Nigeria as His New Christian Reality Show
When a complex security crisis becomes a stage prop for a felon who cannot legally hold a handgun, but gets to command the largest military on Earth Let us begin this meditation in the American contradiction that keeps giving: a man with thirty four felony convictions cannot own a firearm, cannot pass a background check,
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The Trillion Dollar Man: Elon Musk and the Daily Allowance That Could Buy Civilization
Wealth inequality, vibes-based governance, and the shareholders who just voted themselves into a philosophy seminar I want you to picture something very simple. Something wholesome. Something that warms the heart. Imagine a grown man waking up every morning and receiving roughly two hundred seventy four million dollars as a daily allowance. Not annual. Not quarterly.
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The Parliamentarian of My Heart: Crying at the AIDS Memorial While Nancy Pelosi Retires from Saving the Republic
A farewell love letter to the woman who governed like a mother of five who never had time for your nonsense I start this story the way all sensible political elegies should start: on my knees at the National AIDS Memorial Grove in San Francisco, crying hard enough that a tourist couple asked whether I
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November 7th: This Day In Herstory, This Decade in Fury
There is a habit in American storytelling that treats progress like a moving walkway in an airport. Step on, move forward, arrive at the gate of equality with time for a coffee. The trouble is that our walkway is seasonal. It runs when people push the button and it stalls when cowards pull the plug.
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The Prosecutor Who Wasn’t There: Trump’s DOJ, James Comey, and the Case of the Missing Lawful Appointment
At some point, the Department of Justice stopped pretending to be about justice and started acting like a casting call for vengeance. This week, a federal judge finally noticed. In the Trump Justice Department’s long-running revenge play against former FBI Director James Comey, the court pressed pause—not on the facts, not on the charges, but
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The Morning After the Wave: Trump’s Truth Social Tantrum and the Art of Governing by Gripe
There is a sound that follows defeat, and it is not silence. It is the clattering of a smartphone in the small hours, the electronic cough of a man refreshing his own reflection. The morning after Democrats’ big wins, while New York was still sweeping up confetti and poll workers were still drinking reheated coffee,
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Democrats Tuesday Night Lesson: The Cure For Whisper Politics
If Democrats want to govern, they have to stop apologizing for oxygen, pick fights they can win in public, scrap the procedural choke points on purpose, and brag until the story sticks. There is a certain sound to a party that does not trust itself. It is crisp, consultative, and terrified of verbs. You can