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The United States of Paranoia: When the National Security Strategy Reads Like a Reddit Thread
The new official policy of the United States is apparently that France is too dark, Russia is just misunderstood, and the Western Hemisphere is a gated community that needs a higher fence. There is a specific kind of document that usually emerges from the White House every few years called the National Security Strategy. Historically,
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The Supreme Court Is About to Decide if the Constitution Has a “No Vacancy” Sign
The Fourteenth Amendment is clear, unless you are a lawyer paid to pretend that “born in the United States” is a metaphor for “born in a country club with the right membership dues.” We have reached the point in the American experiment where the user agreement is being rewritten in real time, and the terms
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The People v. The Vengeance Machine: A Comedy of Errors with a Body Count
When a grand jury decides to go off-script, the director throws a chair. The most dangerous sound in a democracy isn’t a gunshot or a siren. It’s the polite cough of a grand jury in Norfolk, Virginia, looking at a prosecutor and effectively saying, “Yeah, we’re not gonna do that.” This week, something almost folkloric
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The Cartography of Coercion: How the Supreme Court Just Turned Texas into a Republican Fortress
Democracy isn’t dying in darkness; it’s being rezoned in broad daylight with a high-resolution plotter. Somewhere in a windowless room in Austin, under the hum of fluorescent lights and the whir of cooling fans, a team of political cartographers is high-fiving. They have just pulled off the heist of the century, and they didn’t even
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The United States of Amnesia: Importing the European Nursing Home Model to Save the Snowflakes
When the goal is to turn a dynamic superpower into a gated community for the frightened, you end up importing the stagnation along with the prejudice. There is a specific kind of architectural madness currently gripping the West Wing, a design flaw in the blueprint of the new American century that would be laughable if
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Why the Ukraine “Peace Plan” Looks Like a Distressed Asset Sale
The latest diplomatic envoy to Moscow didn’t bring a treaty. He brought a term sheet. Last Tuesday, a U.S. delegation led by Steve Witkoff—a New York real estate developer whose diplomatic credentials consist largely of owning buildings that don’t fall down—landed in Moscow for a high-stakes sit-down with Vladimir Putin. He was joined by Jared
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The United States of Racketeering: Governing by the Code of the Hitman
When the Situation Room becomes a mob social club, the only difference between a war crime and a pardon is who you know. The water in the Caribbean is warm, blue, and apparently lawless. If you look closely enough at the recent reports coming out of the Pentagon, you can see the stain spreading. It
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The Great American Tariff Refund: A farce in Three Acts (And Counting)
When the “patriotic squeeze” becomes a bureaucratic stranglehold, and the only thing getting squeezed is the American wallet. The latest episode of the great tariff soap opera has arrived, and it is a masterpiece of economic slapstick. It features a plot twist so absurd that if you put it in a screenplay, a studio executive
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The Red Fortress Leak: Why a Tennessee “Squeaker” Is the GOP’s Worst Nightmare
When a twenty-point lead evaporates into the margin of error, it is no longer an election but a structural stress test for a party running on fumes. In the sanitized, color-coded maps of American political strategy, certain districts are not supposed to be battlegrounds. They are supposed to be fiefdoms. They are the deep-red bastions
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The Closet Has a New Landlord: Why the Trump White House Deleted World AIDS Day
They didn’t just forget. They are actively engaged in the architectural restoration of the closet, one deleted calendar entry at a time. The silence was the first thing I noticed back in 2006. It wasn’t a lack of noise; emergency rooms and clinics are never quiet. It was a lack of acknowledgment. When I was