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  • Citizenship: Now Just Another Executive Order

    Citizenship: Now Just Another Executive Order

    Imagine a world where being born on U.S. soil no longer guarantees U.S. citizenship. That world is now on the table, offered in polite legal briefs and grant requests to the Supreme Court. The Trump administration, having signed an executive order restricting birthright citizenship, is now imploring the highest court to rescue it, after lower

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  • The Iowa Superintendent and the Deportation Squad

    The Iowa Superintendent and the Deportation Squad

    There’s a certain theater to American immigration enforcement. You can promise the nation you’ll go after gangs, cartels, hardened criminals, people who smuggle fentanyl by the ton. And then, one ordinary morning, you stage your victory lap by cuffing a school superintendent in Des Moines. Yes, a man who manages budgets, buses, and bell schedules

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  • DOJ vs. Soros: The Loyalty Test Disguised as Law

    DOJ vs. Soros: The Loyalty Test Disguised as Law

    It begins, as these things always do, with a memo. Not a law passed by Congress, not a court case argued in daylight, but a crisp, bureaucratic directive—parchment as performance art. On September 25, 2025, a senior official in Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s office, Aakash Singh, quietly sent word to at least seven U.S.

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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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  • Civility, Insults, and Content Wars: When the Vice President Flips the Script

    Civility, Insults, and Content Wars: When the Vice President Flips the Script

    It has become a perverse form of theater: a live criminal investigation, narrated in real time not by detectives but by hyperpartisan officials competing for the opening line of the news cycle. The vice president demands “civility”—then unleashes profanity. The White House leaps to blame before forensics dust a print. A former Obama speechwriter counters

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  • The Sniper, the Spin, and the Smell Test in Dallas

    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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  • Our Eleven Months of Forever

    Our Eleven Months of Forever

    Eleven months isn’t supposed to be a constellation anyone notices. It’s the small notch between neat numbers, the almost-anniversary. But month eleven is where my sky learned a new center. Before you, my days rose and set on whatever I could will into motion—travel, work, friendship, survival—like a planet faking its own sunrise with a

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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

    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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