As Donald Trump threatens to hit Chicago with the imperial boomerang, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson fights back with an executive order that contrasts sharply with the actions taken by Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser.
Read more...Donald Trump’s family and key cabinet members are grifting it up and battling one another for power as stresses on the administration build.
Read more...The powerful software tools developed by Palantir are sold to defense and intelligence agencies to protect against exteranl threats, but they also have the destructive potential of enabling domestic political repression.
Read more...California Governor Gavin Newsom is using a cringe-worthy “dark woke” approach to counter President Trump on social media that is getting positive poll results.
Read more...Part the First and Only on this Friday Afternoon: One More Revolution of the Accelerating Doom Loop of Science. The following is an update to our previous discussion earlier this week. As everyone should know by now, the Secretary of Health and Human Services has fired the Director of the Centers for Disease Control, Dr. […]
Read more...Haiti’s “manufactured chaos” is the result of foreign intervention in connivance with the country’s oligarchic elites. Erik Prince’s mercenaries will not fix it; they will only make it worse.
Read more...In 2025 we are witnessing a political blender: the collapse of old political alliances and the emergence of new coalitions.
Read more...The Marine Corps’ new Pacific island strategy, articulated in its Force Design 2030 planning documents, envisions small units deployed across the Pacific island chain, armed with missiles and sensors to strike Chinese shipping and contest maritime access. Branded as Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO), the concept seeks to adapt the Corps to great-power competition by […]
Read more...The AI bubble has gotten so big that even the Abundance Bros are noticing, but maybe conventional analysis is missing something really big.
Read more...Part the First: Beware Scientific Jargon. But everyone here already knows that. Nevertheless, this is a perpetual challenge for every scientist and other scholar who wants to be understood by our fellow citizens without “dumbing it down.” Scientific jargon can be ‘satisfying’ — but misleading. Jargon works especially well for those of my tribe who […]
Read more...At the meeting between Putin and Trump, the question of whether a leader is a product of history or its maker reveals much about them, and us.
Read more...Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is counting on support from President Donald Trump in the New York mayoral election.
Read more...Armored knights vanished when gunpowder weapons made them ineffective, and cavalry vanished when motorized transport and tanks arrived on the battlefield. I believe infantry will likely be the next category of warriors to disappear. History shows that survival, cost-effectiveness, and competitive advantage dictate military force composition—not tradition. The lessons are clear: when a combat role […]
Read more...The New Jersey and Virginia 2025 gubernatorial elections provide a preview of the 2026 midterm elections occurring in the shadow of Trump.
Read more...The rules-based order is giving way to one of ‘sphere of influence,’ and in Latin America the U.S. is showing what could look like one
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