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Congress Invents a Cash Prize for Being Investigated, Because Nothing Says Accountability Like Suing the Government for Doing Its Job
There is a special kind of American hypocrisy that blossoms only when senators learn that the law, the boring gray machinery of subpoenas and court orders, might apply to them. It is the kind of hypocrisy that smells like cologne, leather briefcases, and fear. And here we are again, watching lawmakers sprint down the Capitol
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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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THE FORTY DAY SHUTDOWN THAT TAUGHT US NOTHING EXCEPT HOW FAST A SPINE CAN DISSOLVE
There is a particular kind of exhaustion that settles into the bones after a shutdown. Not the temporary kind that passes with a nap and a glass of water. The deeper kind. The kind that feels like a national hangover where the entire country wakes up at once and asks the same question in chorus:
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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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Health Accounts Are Not Health Care, They Are Just Thoughts And Prayers If You Get Sick
When politicians hand you a debit card instead of a health system, and call it innovation There is a special place in the American imagination where problems do not need solutions, they only need branding. Bridges do not need maintenance, they need ribbon cuttings. Schools do not need funding, they need mascots. And health care
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The Optimus Secession: Elon Musk Unveils the Robot That Will Replace Us, Rule Us, and Possibly Charge Us a Subscription Fee
A cyberpunk shareholder rave, a trillion dollar man, and a humanoid life form that will both eliminate poverty and make you its pet There are certain moments in history when you can feel the ground shift beneath your feet. The moon landing. The Berlin Wall. The first time someone uttered the phrase “live, laugh, love”
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The Dick Cheney Legacy: When Power, Privilege and Paradox Collide
At 84, Dick Cheney leaves us a blueprint of power run amok, and a side note on gay rights that doesn’t redeem the wreckage. There is a kind of irony that follows the news of Dick Cheney’s death in 2025 like an aftershock: the man who helped expand the presidency’s power, condone torture, harden the
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Jonathan Bailey: The Sexiest Man Alive, His Dog, and the Fine Print of Progress
It is both poetic and suspicious that in 2025, the first openly gay man to be named PEOPLE’s Sexiest Man Alive revealed the honor to his dog before anyone else. Jonathan Bailey, a thirty-seven-year-old actor best known for his corset-inducing turn in Bridgerton, his Emmy-nominated heartbreak in Fellow Travelers, and his upcoming high-flying role in
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Democrats Don’t Need Better Candidates They Need To Give Them The Mic And Get Out Of The Way
There is a certain kind of strategy meeting that feels like a hostage situation with snacks. A windowless conference room, a lonely fern, a PowerPoint with too many gradient arrows, and ten people who confuse caution with wisdom. Someone says the word “authentic” while polishing a sentence that has never met a human mouth. Someone
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Kash Patel’s $60 Million Date Night. Wait, Someone Would Date Kash Patel?
Every great American scandal begins the same way: with a man insisting it’s not a scandal. FBI Director Kash Patel, the latest maestro of taxpayer-funded romance, would like you to know that when he took a $60 million federal jet for a “date night,” it wasn’t corruption. It was patriotism. Because his girlfriend, a self-proclaimed