Doxing, swatting, bogus FBI calls, stalkers live-streaming outside their homes — it used to be marginal maniacs who saw journalists as targets to be neutralized. Now it’s the President. A government ...

We all know the story. Someone gets furious at the behavior of a health insurance company. Perhaps they are exceptionally ...

In one of his many cutting observations about the fallibility of politicians, H. L. Mencken had this to say about the ...

The first U.S. missiles that struck the boats in the Caribbean in early September 2025 were described by Washington as a “counter-narcotics operation,” a sterile phrase meant to dull the violence of ...

Picture this: You’re looking to buy a place to live, and you have two options. Option A is a beautiful home in California near good schools and job opportunities. But it goes for nearly a million ...

There’s a moment in Season 1 of Landman that crystallizes everything. The oil company’s shareholders gather in their boardroom, high above the West Texas dust and blood. Someone mentions the ...

As scribes over here in the UK suddenly ask if the right-wing populist Reform party has peaked, I realise I know almost nothing about politics. Even more so after studying Your Party—the grassroots ...

The National Security Strategy (NSS) is a document setting U.S. foreign policy goals that the Executive Branch periodically sends to Congress. Commenting on the NSS released on December 5, Rebecca ...

What self-destructive creatures we turn out to be! Can you even believe it? Only recently, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP30, met in Brazil for two weeks. While 194 countries were ...

Kippenstein’s recent discussions of Att. Gen. Pam Bondi’s Memo “Ending Political Violence Against ICE” and Pres. Donald Trump’s National Security Presidential Memo/NSPM-7, “Countering Domestic ...

By mid-2025, the United States once again finds itself confronting a political paradox. President Donald Trump—once the ...

In U.S. political talk, Iraq is often treated as a “finished chapter.” The invasion is history, the occupation is history, and even the war against ISIS ...