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Trump’s ICE Body Bag: Where the Amenities Are Tylenol and a Body Bag
The wind in the high desert of Victorville, California, blows with a specific, sand-blasting indifference. It strips the paint off cars and the hope off human beings with equal efficiency. In this desolate landscape sits the Adelanto ICE Processing Center, a facility that sounds like a place where one might go to renew a driver’s
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The Greatest Scam Ever Sold: How They Convinced You the Guy Next to You Stole Your Wallet
The central crisis of American life is not that we are spending too much money on avocado toast. It is not that the government is printing too much cash to fund “woke” library books. It is not even the terrifying prospect that a drag queen might read a story to a child in a public
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The Ring Is in the Dishwasher, but the Marriage Is in the Sewer: Why Usha Vance Might Finally Be Tired of the MAGA Casting Call
There is a specific genre of political theater that plays out in the unspoken spaces of a marriage, a silent drama usually reserved for the frantic final act of a melodramatic screenplay. But recently, that drama has spilled out onto the campaign trail and into the glossy pages of People magazine, centering on the ring
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No Good Deed and the Critics: Why ‘Wicked’ Is the Tragedy We Deserve
The lights went down in the theater, and for a brief moment, the collective anxiety of the world—the elections, the economy, the general sense that we are living in the final season of a poorly written reality show—suspended itself in the dark. I sat there with Matthew, my fiance and designated emotional anchor, and our
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The Broken Clock Finally Strikes Twelve: A Eulogy for the Marjorie Taylor Greene Era
It is a rare and disorienting experience to watch a arsonist suddenly grab a fire hose, but here we are. On November 21, 2025, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene—the woman who turned performative cruelty into a legislative brand strategy—announced her resignation from Congress. In a four-page statement and video that will likely be studied by future
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The Bone Saw and the Trump Red Carpet: How to Wash an Autocrat in Public
The spectacle of a state visit, under ordinary circumstances, is meant to signal diplomatic strength and mutual respect. Under Donald Trump, however, it becomes a transactional performance, a public washing machine designed to scrub away the stains of documented atrocities. The recent arrival of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, or MBS, for his first
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Prestige TV, Claire Danes, and One Very Suspicious Neighbor Who Definitely Knows How to Wield a Metaphor
Netflix’s The Beast in Me proves that nothing says date night like grief, queer family trauma, a maybe murderer next door, and Claire Danes pacing her kitchen like she is waiting for ghosts to RSVP. There is a particular joy in prestige television that manages to be both a warm blanket and a sharpened blade.
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America Says It Wants A Woman President, Michelle Obama Says: Stop Lying
When the country insists it is ready for female leadership but recoils every time an actual woman steps up, someone eventually has to say the quiet part out loud. Michelle Obama walked onto the stage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, sat down with Tracee Ellis Ross, and proceeded to set the national fantasy of
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CATHOLIC GUILT FOR TRUMP: THE HOLY WATER JUST BOILED OVER
The bishops finally found their voices again. Not the soft indoor-voice homilies that float above parish pews like incense, but something closer to a raised eyebrow from God. America’s Catholic hierarchy, after years of sounding like they were trapped between a Fox News chyron and a Vatican footnote, just dropped a “Special Message” on immigration
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Democrats End a 43-Day Shutdown by Arguing Over the Debris
There are many ways to end a government shutdown. You can compromise. You can capitulate. Or, if you are the Democratic Party, you can split into factions and hold a family intervention in the middle of a burning building. The forty-three-day shutdown ended the way every American civics textbook secretly dreams: not with a unifying