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  • Watergate’s Dismal Sequel: Indicting Comey in Broad Daylight

    Watergate’s Dismal Sequel: Indicting Comey in Broad Daylight

    There was a time when “indicting a former FBI Director” would have been the kind of storyline you read in paperback thrillers at the airport newsstand, usually involving shadowy double agents, a safe house in Prague, and a protagonist who knows too much. Now it’s just Thursday in Alexandria, Virginia. A federal grand jury has…

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  • The PlayStation Sideshow: Hardware Hype and Software Smoke

    The PlayStation Sideshow: Hardware Hype and Software Smoke

    When a major company stages a 35-minute showcase, it isn’t just announcing products — it is tracing its roadmap, planting flags, and testing the air for life—or at least relevance. Sony’s recent State of Play did exactly that: a carefully spaced mixture of first- and third-party reveals, hardware garnish, and accessory bets. Beneath the glitz…

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  • The New Perjury Standard: A Partisan Scalpel For Comey

    The New Perjury Standard: A Partisan Scalpel For Comey

    Somewhere between the solemnity of congressional hearings and the cheap thrill of cable news lies a phrase so heavy it used to rattle marble columns: lying to Congress. It once suggested disgrace, a scarlet letter on a public servant’s record. Now it is being hauled out as a courtroom cudgel, with prosecutors preparing to indict…

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  • Trump Cancels Talks, Shutdown Clock Ticks Louder

    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

    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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  • Review of 107 Days by Kamala Harris

    Review of 107 Days by Kamala Harris

    I listened to Kamala Harris’s new memoir 107 Days on audiobook today, and I can say without hesitation: I loved it. I’ve been a Kamala Harris fan since her days as District Attorney in San Francisco, when her mix of sharp legal instincts and political fearlessness made her one of the most interesting figures in…

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  • When Separation of Powers Becomes Separation Anxiety

    When Separation of Powers Becomes Separation Anxiety

    The Supreme Court has once again reminded us that the Constitution is less a sacred text and more a choose-your-own-adventure paperback where one ending includes civil liberties and the other ends with Donald Trump auditioning for The Apprentice: Federal Agencies Edition. On September 22, 2025, the Court—in a tidy little 6–3 order—handed President Trump what…

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  • From Fever Dreams to Folate: Trump’s Autism Science Fair at the White House

    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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  • When AI Doesn’t Care If You Have a Degree: The Entry-Level White-Collar Bloodbath

    When AI Doesn’t Care If You Have a Degree: The Entry-Level White-Collar Bloodbath

    AI isn’t coming for the CEOs or the hedge-fund moguls. It isn’t storming into your surgeon’s operating room or your plumber’s crawlspace. It’s coming for the kid in the cubicle whose first job is answering customer chats with fake sincerity, filing someone else’s receipts, or fixing the typo in slide 34 of a PowerPoint. In…

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  • The President as Prosecutor-in-Chief: A Republic If You Can Keep It

    The President as Prosecutor-in-Chief: A Republic If You Can Keep It

    If you thought American democracy was fragile before, buckle up. On September 20, 2025, President Donald Trump took to his beloved sandbox, Truth Social, and delivered what can only be described as a digital tantrum dressed up as a presidential directive. “JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!” he thundered, typing like a Red Bull–fueled intern at…

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