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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
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The Country Wanted a Trump Test of Chaos, So Let Them Have the Full Factory Tour
If the country insists on touching the stovetop again just to “make sure it’s still hot,” who am I to stand between a democracy and its favorite form of self-harm. There are moments in public life when you stop trying to warn people about the cliff and instead hand them binoculars so they can appreciate
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Operation Midway Blitz and the Federal Imagination Problem
When a crackdown starts to look less like law enforcement and more like a government sponsored haunted house Public safety is supposed to be boring. That is the entire point. Well functioning systems do not need dramatic lighting, surprise helicopter entrances, or senior officials narrating their own heroism. Which is why Operation Midway Blitz, a
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The Fifty Year Mortgage, Otherwise Known as “Homeownership, But Make It a Long Term Relationship With Your Bank
When vibes based housing policy meets compound interest and everyone pretends it is fine There comes a moment in every collapsing empire when someone proposes an idea so astonishing, so unintentionally revealing, that it deserves to be preserved in a glass case next to the artifacts of past civilizations that also tried financial innovation instead
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The Lone Star Shake Up: Why Jasmine Crockett Should Make Texas Sweat in 2026
If you listen closely, you can already hear it. That low, metallic clank coming from somewhere beneath the marble floors of Capitol Hill. That is the sound of John Cornyn’s confidence dropping into the storm drain as Texans begin whispering an idea so dangerous, so electrifying, so beautifully unhinged that it deserves its own early
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The Trillion Dollar Man: Elon Musk and the Daily Allowance That Could Buy Civilization
Wealth inequality, vibes-based governance, and the shareholders who just voted themselves into a philosophy seminar I want you to picture something very simple. Something wholesome. Something that warms the heart. Imagine a grown man waking up every morning and receiving roughly two hundred seventy four million dollars as a daily allowance. Not annual. Not quarterly.