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The Widow and the Wife: Erika Kirk, Usha Vance, and the JD Vance’s Dance of Complicity
It takes a special kind of choreography to turn grief into a political audition, and an even rarer kind of grace to turn moral silence into career insulation. The American right has produced both this year. On one hand, you have Erika Kirk, the freshly widowed tradwife turned opportunist stage darling, and on the other,
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60 Minutes of Trump Lies: The Interview, the Merger, and the Silence That Follows
A president in a gilded ballroom sells tariffs as salvation and testing as deterrence, a network in a deal cycle sells the interview as a moon landing, and somewhere between the wand and the wine glass the public is asked to accept the headline as the truth, not the truth as the headline. It begins
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Hillary and Kamala Told You: A Double Ledger of Warnings They Laughed At and We Now Live In
History keeps receipts. Sometimes they’re in the form of subpoenas. Sometimes they’re in the form of women who told you exactly what would happen, then watched you pick the showman over the steward. This is that ledger. The one we were warned about. Twice. Once by Hillary Rodham Clinton, the woman mocked for sounding too
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Trump Broke America in 2015 and She Never Healed: Your Decade in One Grim Timeline.
Grief and fury arrived together, like relatives who cannot stand each other but share a last name. One sits with a box of tissues and tells you to breathe. The other opens a window and says jump or move. I remember the moment the country broke, not as metaphor but as sound, a brittle snap
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The Spreadsheet Is a Crime Scene: JPMorgan, Epstein, and the Fine Art of Looking Away
The modern banking system has a curious definition of morality. If you or I move a suspicious thousand dollars, the government freezes our account, our credit dies, and an algorithm red-flags us into financial purgatory. But if you’re Jeffrey Epstein, you can move a billion dollars through the world’s largest bank for sixteen years and
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The Golden Throne of Mar-a-Lincoln: When Optics Replace Government
It is a curious image of the modern presidency: the country in a government shutdown, the courts ordering the Department of Agriculture to raid emergency funds to keep SNAP afloat, and the Commander-in-Chief posting 24 glossy photos of his newly renovated Lincoln Bathroom, complete with black and white statuary marble, gold handles on the tub,
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Break the Glass, Save the House: A Field Manual for Democrats Who Are Tired of Being the Only Adults in a Burning Room
There is a moment in every family crisis when the responsible sibling realizes that being responsible is not the same thing as being effective. You can tidy while the kitchen burns. You can organize receipts while the roof caves in. You can stand there with your binder of excellent plans and watch a cousin rewire
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Andrew is Now Prince of Nothing: How the Crown Did What Congress Won’t
Somewhere in the foggy precincts of Britain’s class system, King Charles III just did something extraordinary: he looked his brother in the face, stared into the abyss of Jeffrey Epstein’s fallout, and said, “Not in my house.” And then, with the unhurried precision of a man pruning a diseased branch, he cut. Prince Andrew, Duke
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Trump White House Halloween You Can’t Unsee: Voldemort, Maleficent, and the Budget Ring of Power
Under the glitter and smoke, the costumes translate into deregulation, propaganda, and cuts that land on real people. There are holidays that ask for reverence, others that ask for ritual. Halloween asks for honesty. Put the thing you want on your face and watch the room tell you who you are. At the White House,
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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