The USS George Washington is being dispatched to relieve the USS Abraham Lincoln, a move that comes after months of documented crew suffering and a pattern of institutional denial that…
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
A federal judge dismissed the Trump administration's lawsuit against Harvard, ruling that the Department of Justice's claim of ongoing Title VI violations was 'devoid of any factual allegations' and misused…
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
The Kennedy Center board held a vote Thursday that it did not announce, on an agenda it did not distribute, over a Zoom call it did not make public. The…
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
The Pentagon is sending the USS George Washington to the Middle East, and if you read the official framing, this is a routine rotation, a scheduled relief, a perfectly ordinary…
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
Rep. Max Miller's decision to publish a Dropbox folder full of personal documents to defend himself against his ex-wife's domestic abuse allegations is not, in the technical sense, surprising. It…
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
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
