President Trump has announced the construction of a 'Golden Fleet' headlined by the Trump-class USS Defiant, a battleship he claims will be '100 times more powerful than any battleship ever…
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
The president of the United States walked up to the press pool holding a print-out of a Washington Post headline, waved it like a man displaying a trout he had…
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
A president who treats engineering preferences as loyalty tests, who elevates anecdote over analysis, and who cannot distinguish between the things he does not know and the things he has…
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
The Republican Party, with the reflexive predictability of a Pavlovian dog hearing its dinner bell, proposes cutting taxes on the rich. We are watching it again.
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
Joe Rogan, a man who endorsed Donald Trump in 2024, has finally named the thing we have known for decades: that the Trump family's $1.4 billion crypto haul is not…
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
Trump has signed a national security memorandum directing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao to replace the electromagnetic aircraft launch system and advanced weapons elevators on…
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
In Tennessee, sleeping in your vehicle on public property is a Class E felony carrying up to six years in prison. Domestic assault, by contrast, is a Class A misdemeanor…
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
The latest Economist/YouGov survey places Democrats eight points ahead on the generic House ballot and President Trump's approval rating at 33 percent. This structural arithmetic suggests a tectonic event, as…
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
What happened to Nolan Wells on Horn Island is a tragedy. What has happened since is a structural inevitability, and pretending otherwise is how we keep having this conversation.
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
Austan Goolsbee patiently explained the Federal Reserve to an audience that had already decided it was a shadowy cabal, turning a media appearance into a structural artifact of remedial education.
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
