A 24-Year-Old Bought a Condo and Told Us Exactly Who He Is. We Weren't Listening.
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
The party establishment could not stomach Francesca Hong's grassroots movement, so they recruited a dropout, deployed a governor's endorsement, and manufactured an electability argument to steal the nomination by a…
Mars Vega-Kaplan
The president of the United States crawled into a catering truck. That is not a metaphor. On July 8, Donald Trump boarded the legacy Air Force One in Turkey, then…
Mars Vega-Kaplan
Tony Evers sat next to David Crowley on television this weekend and said, with the calm certainty of a man who has never been right about anything important, 'She's a…
Mars Vega-Kaplan
The discovery is the story. Everything else is implementation.
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
A Damascus courtroom has delivered a verdict that would have been unthinkable two years ago: Bashar al-Assad, now in Moscow, has been sentenced to death for war crimes and crimes…
Mars Vega-Kaplan
The president's new Iran strategy, as reported in The Atlantic, is to do nothing and see if that works. This is not my characterization. It is the characterization of his…
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
A sitting president personalized a military conflict, framed state violence as personal retribution, and then had to be smuggled out of a NATO summit in a food truck because the…
Mars Vega-Kaplan
When a diplomat starts calling the threatened annexation of your country a 'term of endearment,' you are not hosting an ambassador. You are hosting a problem.
Mars Vega-Kaplan
The Los Angeles Times opinion page, in a piece defending Musk's trillionaire status, calls concerns about inequality 'an aesthetic complaint masquerading as a policy position.' A 'vibes argument.' The author…
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
