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The Sniper, the Spin, and the Smell Test in Dallas
The truth is that political violence is always a tragedy. That should not need disclaiming, but in our era of algorithmic outrage, you practically have to lead with a notarized certificate of sincerity before you dare analyze an event. So let’s start there: what happened at the Dallas ICE field office was horrific. One detainee
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United We Scroll: 100 Things We All Secretly Agree On That Democrats Actually Campaign On While Republicans Pretend Don’t Exist
Every morning, cable news assures us that America is a house divided, a republic hanging by a thread, two tribes locked in a forever war where a neighbor’s yard sign is the moral equivalent of Pearl Harbor. Turn on Fox News and you’ll learn Democrats are Satan’s personal interns. Flip over to MSNBC and Republicans
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Epstein and Trump: Best Friends Forever on the Mall
If Washington, D.C. is America’s front lawn, then the National Mall is the part where we put out our most awkward lawn ornaments. Statues to presidents, monuments to wars, the occasional scaffolding around the Capitol—these are the ornaments meant to convey gravitas. So when a 12-foot bronze-finished sculpture depicting Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein holding
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Trump Cancels Talks, Shutdown Clock Ticks Louder
There are rituals in Washington that feel less like governance and more like reruns of a bad reality show. One of the longest-running is the shutdown dance: leaders promise to meet, promise to negotiate, promise to avert disaster—and then someone flips the table, storms out, and insists the other side ruined dinner. This week, the
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Trump at the U.N.: When the General Assembly Became a General Farce
There are speeches you remember because they alter the course of history. There are speeches you remember because they contained a moral appeal so clear that even enemies nodded. And then there are speeches you remember because the escalator broke, the teleprompter glitched, and the President of the United States called climate change “the greatest
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Democracy with a Matchbook: How America Learned to Love Political Violence, Tribalism, and Excel Spreadsheets
Pod Save America did what it does best: deliver the bad news with a podcast ad break for magnesium powder and underwear that “feels like on-body AC.” The guest of honor was Dr. Liliana Mason, Johns Hopkins political scientist and unwilling Cassandra of our collapsing republic. Her subject? The roots of political violence in America
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From Fever Dreams to Folate: Trump’s Autism Science Fair at the White House
If you thought public health messaging couldn’t get stranger than a president telling people to inject bleach, buckle up. On September 22, 2025, President Donald J. Trump stood at a White House autism event, beaming like a game show host unveiling a mystery prize, with none other than Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at
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Everyone Knows Trump Administration Are Crooks. Trump Just Posted Watergate Online—Then Deleted It
Donald Trump has always been good at one thing: saying the quiet part out loud. In another era, a president who leaned on his attorney general to prosecute political enemies would’ve done it in smoke-filled rooms, tucked between Nixonian “deep six the tapes” orders and plausible deniability. But Trump, bless his broken filter, skipped the
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When Politicians Pretend They’re Revolutionaries: The Palestine Recognition Spectacle
They said “symbolic.” They said “diplomatic.” They said “a step toward peace.” But when the Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia stood up in unison and said, “Yes, Palestine is a state,” it looked less like diplomacy and more like a performance. One of those moral theater pieces meant to reassure the
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The Stadium as Cathedral: Charlie Kirk’s Resurrection Tour
America has never been subtle about grief. We brand it, stream it, and sell t-shirts out of the trunk. But even for a country that once turned the O.J. trial into a daytime soap, what happened inside State Farm Stadium in Glendale was… operatic. Or maybe that’s too generous—let’s call it what it was: a