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
Xavier Becerra holds a commanding 55% to 37% lead over Steve Hilton in a new Berkeley IGS/Los Angeles Times poll, but the real story is that voters are choosing a…
Mars Vega-Kaplan
Lilly Wachowski, the visionary behind The Matrix, has a finished script for a $10 million thriller, yet no studio will greenlight it. The reason isn't the budget or the story,…
Mars Vega-Kaplan
The first order instructs federal agencies to withhold citizenship documents from 'certain categories of children' born on U.S. soil to noncitizen parents. The categories include babies with at least one…
Mars Vega-Kaplan
The federal government just spent $5.1 million covering four bronze statues near the Lincoln Memorial in 23.75-karat gold leaf. Nearly twenty-four karat. I looked it up. That's the stuff they…
Tammy-Jo Pritchett
Strip away the pageantry and here is what your government decided matters this summer: 23.75-karat gold leaf on four bronze horses, and soldiers on city streets through 2029.
Mars Vega-Kaplan
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
