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Trump and Putin’s The Art of the Steal: How a Condo Developer and a Kremlin Banker Just “Solved” Ukraine
The modern history of diplomacy is usually written in treaties, summits, and carefully worded communiqués. But the history of the Trump administration is written in term sheets. On November 19, 2025, the world learned exactly what happens when you outsource geopolitics to a real estate developer and a sovereign wealth fund manager. The Guardian revealed
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Stop Calling It “The Economy”: It’s Just a Mood Ring for Billionaires
We need to retire the word “economy.” We need to take it out back, behind the woodshed of political discourse, and bury it next to “trickle-down” and “compassionate conservatism.” It has become a linguistic shield, a hollow propaganda term used by CNBC anchors and politicians to gaslight you into believing that your inability to buy
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The Map Is Not a Bloodsport, But They Brought a Chainsaw Anyway: A Texas Takedown
The quiet, un-televised cruelty of American political mechanics often hides in plain sight, tucked away in the arcana of cartography and statute. It is, perhaps, fitting that the quietest, most surgical rebuke to Texas Republican political dominance did not come from a grand moral proclamation or a sweeping popular wave. It came instead from a
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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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Larry Summers, Epstein’s Budget Therapist, and the Elite Rot That Everyone Pretended Didn’t Smell
When the Democratic establishment’s favorite oracle turns out to be workshopping his love life with Jeffrey Epstein, maybe the problem isn’t “optics” but the ecosystem that thought this was normal. Every so often, a cache of documents drops that does not merely indict individuals but reveals the entire architecture of American elite culture as a
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The Trump Justice Department That Forgot What Justice Means
When a federal judge starts using phrases like “disturbing pattern” and “extraordinary remedy,” you know the plot has wandered into banana republic territory with better-funded lawyers. There are weeks in American political life when the news arrives in polite increments, like a series of thoughtfully placed postcards. And then there are the weeks when the
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When MAGA Meets Mellow: The Day the GOP Declared War on Weed and Lost a Turning Point Influencer to the Void
Nothing says ideological clarity like Mitch McConnell banning hemp while a Turning Point USA ambassador swears off voting because Dad’s gummies are now contraband. Political eras usually end with a whimper. Occasionally they end with a thunderclap. And every now and then, they collapse in on themselves like a dying star made of irony, grievance,
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America’s New Hunger Games Begins, and the Prize Is Permission To Eat
Trump calls it “One Big Beautiful Bill,” but the only thing getting beautified is the balance sheet Congress cares about more than hungry families. The thing about austerity is that it never arrives dressed as cruelty. It shows up in a blazer, smiles politely, talks about discipline, and promises to fix the books. It nods
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When Border Patrol Starts Haunting Charlotte Church Lawns, You Know the Empire Is Fucked
Interior enforcement turns Charlotte into a stage set for federal theater, complete with smashed windows, masked agents, and a government insisting the chaos is for your own good. Charlotte is not a border town. Charlotte is not even near a border town. Charlotte is the sort of place where church volunteers trim hedges in the
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Everything Since 2016 Was A Dream: The Writers’ Room Has Lost Control of the Plot
If the last decade were a TV series, even the interns would be begging the showrunners for a hard reboot before cancellation. There comes a time in every long running series when the writers lose all sense of proportion. When the storylines pile up like abandoned shopping carts, when characters behave like they have been