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Current-Events
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The Country That Was an Argument
Two hundred and fifty years ago a handful of men grounded a country not in a king or a bloodline but in an idea about the individual: that you own yourself, that your rights come before any government, and that a government is legitimate …
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The Court Sided With the Soil
The Supreme Court just held that a child born to a tourist here for the weekend is an American at birth. To get there the majority revived a feudal rule that a free people threw off in 1776: that the ground you are born on owns you. Thomas …
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An Open Letter to Dario Amodei
You told Congress that open models are too dangerous to be free. It is the same thing the priesthood said about scripture and the state said about encryption, and it has always meant one thing. Keep the power. Call it protection.
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Flock Is the Most Un-American Company in America
A private company has quietly built a national surveillance grid that records where every car in America goes and rents it to any police force that will pay. It is the general warrant the country was founded to destroy, sold as a monthly …
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The Transatlantic Divorce
The Long Crisis, Part 3. The Western alliance didn’t die in the war with Iran. It died years ago, and the war was simply the moment everyone had to stop pretending otherwise. What replaces it is two Western blocs that no longer trust …
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Reading the Climax
The Long Crisis, Part 2. The war with Iran feels like the decisive moment. That instinct is what the theory warns against, and what Iran actually did was not break the old order but X-ray how much of it was already gone.
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Where We Are in the Cycle
The Long Crisis, Part 1. We’re somewhere inside a Crisis era, and the question that matters isn’t whether America stays powerful. It’s whether that power ends up resting on earned legitimacy or another hollow Gilded Age.
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The Booth Was the Point
I went easy on mail voting last time. The deeper problem is not the slow count. It is that mailing everyone a ballot quietly repeals the secret ballot, and the secret ballot was the whole defense against buying and coercing votes.
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DOGE Should Have Been Permanent
DOGE had the right mission, and for once someone with power actually went looking for the waste. The mistake was leaving it a temporary executive project instead of doing the obvious thing and making it a permanent institution by act of …
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Pay First, Verify Never
The slow election count, the leaking benefit programs, and the unreadable road signs are the same story: a managerial state that optimizes for throughput and lets integrity rot.
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Clean Rolls Are Not a Conspiracy
Noncitizen voting is rare and not swinging national elections. Clean, verifiable voter rolls are also basic administrative hygiene. Both are true, and the fight in Washington pretends only one can be.
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You Have to Read the Signs
A commercial license is permission to pilot eighty thousand pounds past your family at highway speed. Requiring the driver to read the road signs is not nativism. It is the floor.
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The Two Hundred Billion Dollar Leak
The government’s own books show well over a hundred and fifty billion dollars a year paid out in error. If you actually believe in a safety net, that should enrage you more than anyone.
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Election Night Is Dead
We used to know who won by midnight. Now we wait days for a result half the country will not believe. The slow count is not a fraud claim. It is a legitimacy problem, and it is mostly self-inflicted.