Indigenous Peoples Day isn't really about renaming a Monday in October. It's about whether we're willing to look at what the old name asked us not to see.
Every U.S. Senate race on the 2026 ballot — candidates, current ratings, and projections, from the handful of toss-ups that will decide the majority to the safest seats in the country.
Honor isn't conferred by office or title. It's a practical discipline: consistency, respect, courage, responsibility, and the country is watching, in real time, what erodes when leaders abandon it.
A Stoic, an atheist, and a progressive make the case, directly, that the prosperity gospel and Christian nationalism betray the faith they claim to defend.
A federal judge told the President he could use the White House but not own it. This week the case reaches the Supreme Court, and the taxpayer bill for the private gift has quietly grown to $900 million.
Scott Bessent doubled the Treasury's debt buyback program to steady the bond market. The math says it's too small to matter, raises the government's long-term interest burden, and tells Congress deficits don't matter.
A companion to Treasury Buybacks: A Colossal Failure in the Making. Switzerland's constitutional debt brake, and the dormant U.S. bill modeled on it, are a real fix, one that needs to start before the CBO's own no-crisis baseline breaks the debt-to-GDP record around 2030.
A formal assessment of America's macroeconomic trajectory and geopolitical standing in mid-2026: slowing growth, a mounting fiscal load, and a narrowing margin of advantage against rival powers.
Both chambers of Congress are in play on November 3. A look at the Senate toss-ups, the House math, the economy as the deciding issue, and what the final nine weeks will actually decide.
A 50 percent tariff on Canadian goods, a collapsed trade deal, and a week of floods, layoffs, and court rulings. The dichotomy of control is not an abstraction; it is the only sane way to read the news.
MacKenzie Scott helped build Amazon, then gave away $26 billion. Her philosophy of giving it away is the Stoic dichotomy of control, enacted at a scale the ancients could not have imagined.
A scholarly synthesis of the wargame literature and force-posture data: how a U.S.-China war in 2030 would begin, what the first weeks would cost, where it would break, and why every major study concludes neither side could win it in any useful sense.
Ninety days from today is December 2. If the Iran war grinds on without improvement, here is what the yield curve, the Federal Reserve, and your mortgage are likely to do between now and then.
Ninety days from today is December 2. If the Iran war grinds on without improvement, here is what the world's most-watched index, a Fed that may hike twice, and a consumer already feeling the strain are likely to do between now and then.
Corruption is conventionally treated as a moral failure. It is also an economic one, and the price is measurable: in distorted investment, higher yields, lost tax revenue, and the quiet premium paid for a government that can no longer be trusted to enforce its own rules.
Sixty-one days before the midterms, a plain-language tour of what the constitutional text actually assigns: who sets the rules, who counts the votes, and why the right to vote appears nowhere in the original document.
A documented accounting of the criminal convictions, criminal charges, and civil judgments against the forty-seventh president, and of what the legal system did and did not resolve.
The second Trump administration is both dangerous and useless, and the two are the same fact: power without competence does not cancel out, it compounds. The war, the economy, the record of failure, and the verdict of the polls.
A confession, a diagnosis, and a defense: what it actually means to be accused of Trump Derangement Syndrome, and why the accusation has become the most reliable compliment in American politics.
A sober look at the year 2075, forty-nine years out. The demographics, the climate, and the politics are already in motion. The question is which of two paths the world takes, and the answer is being written now.
Carl Sagan died in 1996, before the smartphone, before social media, before artificial intelligence, before the first year above 1.5 degrees. But he saw all of it coming. This is what the evidence demands of us, in his voice.
The United Nations says the world will overshoot 1.5 degrees. A glacier collapsed in Nepal and killed 1,280 people. A supersized El Niño is coming. And the vice president says it isn't a war. Marcus Aurelius has something to say about all of it.
A researched analysis of the 2026 Treasury selloff: a $2.1 trillion deficit, a Fed holding rates with inflation still above target, an administration demanding cuts it has not earned, and the plain assignment of blame.
A researched essay on how the Supreme Court lost the public's trust: record-low approval, an ethics code with no enforcement, a confirmation process reduced to raw power, and the structural reforms that could restore it.
The Founders built a government that could survive knaves. They did not build one that could survive a leader whose strategy is to make the difference between truth and falsehood undiscoverable. Honesty is not a moral preference; it is the republic's cheapest infrastructure.
After three of the largest single-day demonstrations in American history, the No Kings movement is turning from the streets to the ballot box. On Saturday, October 17, the fourth chapter of a 250-year argument begins.
The United States is waging a trade war against its second-largest trading partner, its largest energy supplier, and its closest ally, over a border that produces 0.2 percent of the fentanyl and a deficit that disappears when you exclude oil. The costs are real, the pretexts are false, and the only question left is what we are trying to break.
The people who build AI are now the people most afraid of it. The surveys say the median expert puts the chance of catastrophe at 5 to 20 percent, the range runs from zero to 99, and the forecasters who are actually calibrated say 2. The evidence is early and ugly, and the takeover that matters most is not the one in the headlines. The probability is not a number to be discovered. It is a decision to be made.
The 9/11 Commission called the attacks 'a shock, but they should not have come as a surprise.' Twenty-five years later, with an entire generation grown up with no living memory of the day, this essay walks the road to September 11, 2001, the failures that let the plot through, the price that was paid, and the light that came through the fracture.
