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Trump’s Epstein Problem: The Dog That Finally Barked at 218 Signatures
Congress rarely moves with speed unless it is the speed of decay. But once in a generation, the planets align, a freshman gets sworn in on a Friday night, and the House of Representatives actually does something explosive by accident. This week, that accident arrived in the form of newly sworn in Representative Adelita Grijalva,
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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
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From Aloy to All-In: When Horizon Goes MMO and Mobile—and the Monsters Charge
I have a confession to make: I love MMOs. Give me the dark parking lot of EverQuest, the regimented raiding towers of World of Warcraft, the sprawling social village of Final Fantasy XIV—I’ve sat through login queues, ignored dinner invites, and hasta-la-vida’d sleep for one last respawn. So when Sony Interactive Entertainment and NCSOFT revealed
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Epstein: Trump Has His Own Email Problem and I Think I Hear Hillary Laughing
THE CORPSE WHO CALLED THE PRESIDENT A DOG There is something exquisitely American about needing twenty thousand emails from a dead pedophile to state the obvious, which is that Donald Trump, self appointed innocence mascot of the MAGA Republic, has never once in his life been anywhere near a situation without lying about it. And
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The Algorithmic Conveyor Belt: How Rage Turns Policy Debate into an Antisemitic Pipeline
There is a truth so obvious that it remains invisible only because we are all scrolling. The American right has not simply flirted with anti-Jewish rhetoric; some of its most influential factions have fallen straight into it. But this descent is not spontaneous. It is mechanical, economic, engineered. It is what happens when an algorithm
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Trump Tries To Probe More People Without Consent In Florida
There is a certain kind of breaking news alert that feels less like journalism and more like a smoke alarm that only goes off after the house is already engulfed. The latest comes from the Southern District of Florida, the federal jurisdiction that has spent the past decade juggling everything from Mar a Lago search
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Pardonpalooza: Trump’s Get Out of Jail Free Card For Those Who Helped Him Try To Steal the 2020 Election
There comes a moment in every political season when you realize the country is not being governed so much as improv’d, and the cast has decided to try audience participation. The latest spectacle arrived with a flourish of parchment and a press release drafted in what appears to be the disappointed sigh of the rule
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Democratic Socialism Is Already in Your Pantry, Your Paycheck, and Your Potholes: A World Tour for Americans Who Still Think Norway Is a Marvel Villain
There is a particular genre of American political conversation that resurfaces every election cycle, usually somewhere between the moment a Democrat mentions healthcare and the moment a Republican begins sweating like someone asked him to define “GDP.” The conversation goes like this. One person suggests the United States might benefit from policies similar to those
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BBC Without a Head: A Public Broadcaster Tries to Walk a Tightrope While the Rope Is on Fire
There is a particular sound the British establishment makes when something goes wrong. It is not a gasp, or a groan, or even the gentle clatter of a teacup as it trembles in the saucer of constitutional decorum. It is the muffled thud of two top executives leaping overboard at the same time, followed by