Cliff Ahead: Working Americans Brace for Health-Insurance Premium Shakeup as Subsidy Talks Stall Out here on the road, you learn to read the signs before the storm hits. And right now the signs in health care are screaming a warning...
Quick take Fox News host Jesse Watters interviewed a masked figure described as an “Antifa whistleblower.” Observers soon noted a striking facial resemblance to a guest from 2023, Ramon “Mundo” Mendoza, who Watters said was a former Mexican Mafia member....
Greene defection highlights health care cracks in GOP shutdown unity A political fault line surfaces as Congress fights over extending enhanced ObamaCare subsidies amid a funding deadline. Executive snapshot: what’s at stake The fight over the enhanced ObamaCare subsidies—those COVID-era...
Reframing the Crime Debate: A Toolkit for Democrats Trying to Protect the Middle Class If you’ve spent any time in a neighborhood where a grocery store closes early because the block doesn’t feel safe, you know crime isn’t just a...
Shutdown Stakes: Pragmatism in a Time of Partisan Brinkmanship A data-driven, policy-first look at the ongoing government shutdown, the leverage politics behind it, and the path toward credible, bipartisan solutions that protect essential services while respecting constitutional processes. Context: What’s...
Tariffs, Inflation, and the Stagflation Watch: A Data-Driven Reading of Goolsbee's Warnings On Tuesday, Austan Goolsbee, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, warned that tariff-driven price hikes may not be a one-off. The core concern: if inflation proves...
Guardrails, Purges, and the Long Shadow of Watergate: A Historian’s Skeptical Tour of FBI Independence Three converging shocks in the 1970s—Watergate, the collapse of the Vietnam withdrawal’s credibility, and the Empire of Hoover’s abuses—eroded the public’s near-automatic trust in the...
Principles, Polls, and the Price of Gridlock: Why the Shutdown Debate Hits the Middle Class When we talk about governing, the conversation often turns to words like “principle,” “compromise,” and “fiscal responsibility.” But behind those buzzwords are real families who...
Unmasking the Silence: Mass Shootings, Media Spin, and the Weaponization of Hate Another week, another shooting, another set of families torn apart. Two incidents, two different faith communities, and two grieving futures. But the throughline is unmissable: MAGA-fueled rage, anti-LGBTQ+...
Rift in the Movement: Erika Kirk, TPM, and the Morality Test In the thick of our culture wars, how we honor the fallen and how we lead our movements matter more than the latest viral moment. The clash between Nick...
Taiwan-US Chip Talks: Why a 50-50 Split Won’t Happen—and What That Means for Global Tech The drumbeat around a proposed U.S.–Taiwan 50-50 split of semiconductor production collides with a reality: Taiwan has signaled that such an arrangement wasn’t discussed, and...
When Politics Encroaches on the Gavel: Reclaiming Prosecutorial Independence in a Fractured Era A thorough, unapologetic look at how prosecutorial power should flow from the facts and the law—and how politics can corrode the very core of justice. “The prosecutor’s...
When a Blueprint Becomes a Weapon: Why Project 2025 and the Shutdown Are Not Just Policy Debates If you’ve ever stood in a crowded room with a borrowed megaphone, you know what it feels like to hear a precise, strategic...
Shutdown Showdown: The Real Costs Behind Washington's Posturing When the government lapses into a funding gap, the headlines can read like a political sport. But for the folks on the road, in small towns, and at the checkout lines, this...
Deadline, Delusion, and the Gaza Gambit: A Historian’s Take on Trump’s 20-Point Peace Plan In the theater of geopolitics, deadlines are currency and rhetoric is a weapon. When the actor is a former president wielding a 20-point plan like a...