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The Doha Detour: How Trump’s Foreign Policy Became a Jet Lagged Choose-Your-Own-Adventure
By now, America’s allies have learned to read the signs. The tweet that drops at 3 a.m. Doha time. The “unscheduled meeting” that doubles as a refueling stop. The grinning photo op that becomes a tariff threat before the plane lands. Donald Trump’s second-term foreign policy isn’t so much a doctrine as a recurring flight
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The Forest Hills Compact: How the Left Finally Learned to Fill a Stadium Thanks To Mamdani, Bernie Sanders, and AOC
It takes a certain kind of political gravity to fill Forest Hills Stadium with hope. Not the campaign-slogan kind, but the kind that hums under the skin, the kind that makes people believe power might still be something they can touch. On a humid New York afternoon, tens of thousands showed up for Zohran Mamdani’s
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Trump’s Biggest Win Isn’t in Court It’s in the Newsroom
As billionaire owners consolidate outlets and executives sand down the truth, America’s press swaps watchdog bite for brand-safe whispers while power tightens the faucet on facts. I keep a short list of American rituals that used to mean something: the Fourth of July, jury duty, and a headline that calls a thing what it is.
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Eat the Rich, Not the Ramen: America’s Favorite Pastime of Blaming Hungry People on SNAP for Being Poor
America has a long, proud tradition of punching down. We could have been the country that invented bullet trains or universal childcare, but instead we perfected the art of yelling “Get a job!” at someone carrying a bag of store-brand cereal and a SNAP card. Forty-two million people are on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,
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The Great Denaturalization Reboot: When Patriotism Became a Costume Party For MAGA
It’s happening again. The right has discovered a thrilling new hobby: pretending the Fourteenth Amendment is optional. Apparently, “We the People” now comes with a disclaimer—“unless you’re Muslim, queer, left of Ronald Reagan, or pronounce your name with too many vowels.” Across talk radio, committee hearings, and influencer podcasts with the production value of a
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Arctic Frostbite: How Trump’s DOJ Turned Revenge Into a Branch of Government
Some scandals melt under scrutiny. Others freeze time itself—like Operation Arctic Frost, the FBI’s now-infamous 2022 election-interference investigation that asked a few telecom companies for call logs and somehow got rebranded as the new Watergate. The facts were simple enough: the Bureau, approved at senior levels by Merrick Garland, Christopher Wray, and Lisa Monaco, used
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Zohran Mamdani: Building Bridges While The Ignorant Builds Walls
If you walked into Astoria today and asked what it looks like when a politician actually organizes for the people—not the patrons, not the press hits, but the ten-ants—they’d mention one name more than any other: Zohran Mamdani. Born in Queens, raised between Kampala and Doha, organizer-turned–New York State Assembly member, now casting a wide
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Divide, Distract, Deregulate, Disappear: Your Anger Was Focus-Grouped
Culture-war noise keeps you busy while antitrust is gutted, noncompetes spread, and public money builds luxury towers. The Hand in Your Pocket Is Wearing a Cufflink The oldest magic trick in politics begins with a sigh and ends with your wallet. The sigh is theatrical, “What is happening to our great nation?”, and the wallet
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America’s New Marching Orders: How to Turn the National Guard Into a Campaign Prop (and Still Call It “Public Safety”)
There’s a special kind of genius in bureaucratic evil—the kind that hides a revolution inside a memo. The latest leak out of the Pentagon reads less like a defense directive and more like a stage direction for an authoritarian dress rehearsal: by April 1, 2026, every state’s National Guard must have a rapid “Response Force”
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How to Rig an Election While Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud
It’s 2025, which means we’re back in the part of the American cycle where politicians stop pretending to govern and start designing the next democracy-themed escape room. The new blueprint—marketed, ironically, as Never Again 2020—isn’t a conspiracy theory or a master plan. It’s a step-by-step guide written in bureaucratic beige and marketed as “election integrity.”