US Politics
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America’s semi-quincentennial was supposed to belong to all Americas. Instead, masked white nationalists marched on the Capitol, a president warned of a ‘communist menace’ from ‘newcomers,’ and a cabinet secretary was handed chance after chance to condemn the men in the masks and passed. The 250th anniversary of American independence was meant to be a…
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The dramatic version of democratic decline looks like January 6. The durable version looks like paperwork – and it’s already moving through the courts, the Postal Service, and the offices that run our elections.
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The 2026 U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy redefines who counts as a terrorist. The implications should unsettle every American. On May 2026, the White House released its new United States Counterterrorism Strategy. It is sixteen pages long and written in the language of strength and security. Buried inside its rhetoric of protecting Americans is a framework that…
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Why a billionaire who once wrote that ‘freedom and democracy’ are no longer compatible now sits at the center of the federal government’s data infrastructure – and why that matters for the rest of us. In 2009, Peter Thiel published an essay called The Education of a Libertarian. Buried in it was a sentence that…
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On March 25, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14248, ‘Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections.’ It’s eleven sections of dense legalese wrapped in the language of fraud prevention and election security. If you read it quickly, it might even sound reasonable. That’s the point. Because what this order actually constructs is an…
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Pam Bondi didn’t show up to seek justice for Epstein’s survivors today. She showed up to protect the powerful, smear a Holocaust victim’s granddaughter, and play to an audience of one: Donald Trump.
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An ICU nurse, legal gun owner, and peaceful protester, Alex Pretti, did everything this country says it values. The state killed him for it. His execution by federal agents in Minneapolis is not an aberration; it is the logical outcome of an administration that has turned a deportation force into a domestic army and is…