When a Cornered President Floats Emergency Powers Over Elections, Preparedness Is Not Paranoia
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has made at least two trips to Capitol Hill to pitch the Trump administration's record $1.5 trillion defense budget, a figure representing a 40% increase over…
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
The University of Washington has produced a masterwork of the form: an administrative statement that says nothing while implying everything. Four months after the university was placed under investigation by…
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
President Trump's executive order to break the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine into three separate injections is a textbook case of policy failure, simultaneously a public health catastrophe and a logistical impossibility.
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
The fortress confesses what these men will not say out loud. They have already lost the only stronghold that ever held, which is the goodwill of the people on the…
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
Michigan's Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed has challenged his Republican opponent, former Rep. Mike Rogers, to a game of tackle football in lieu of five debates, a move that treats…
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
Tyler Robinson's defense team is arguing he should not face the death penalty because the bullet that killed Charlie Kirk 'traveled above, not through, the crowd' of several thousand people,…
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
When career prosecutors refuse to sign off on a politically motivated dismissal, they are not merely resigning; they are triggering the institutional immune system. But when political appointees occupy every…
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
The deportation of military family members is not a scandal in the journalistic sense, a discrete event with a smoking gun and a culpable official. It is something more durable:…
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
Ten House members felled in their own primaries this cycle, seven Democrats and three Republicans, plus two Republican senators for good measure, and the preferred adjective is 'unusually high.' It…
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
