When Ancient Egypt Becomes Subversive A book about the digestive system got pulled off a school library shelf this past year. So did one on ancient Egypt. Somewhere in America, a parent or a politician decided that the inner…
When Only 28 Percent of Us Support a Bill, Why Is It Still Moving? Washington has talked itself into believing that the SAVE America Act is the most urgent fight in the country. Voters, it turns out, are barely…
Fewer Swastikas, More Funerals: The 2025 Antisemitism Report We Should Actually Read The Anti-Defamation League says antisemitic incidents in 2025 fell by a third compared with 2024, dropping from 9,354 down to 6,274. Take a breath. Now read the…
The “Elephant in the Room” Just Hit 59 Percent The polite phase is over. Almost six in ten of us now say the president doesn’t have the mental sharpness to do his job. Read that again. We are not…
The Race Nobody Watches Could Decide the One Everybody Does Pop quiz. Who certifies your state’s election results? If you blanked, you’re not alone. Most of us couldn’t name our secretary of state or our state attorney general on…
Selling the Oval Office One Cologne Bottle at a Time Picture two scenes from this week. In one, a sitting president promotes a $249 bottle of cologne called Victory 45 47 to millions of followers on a social media…
The Court Just Handed Politicians a New Tool to Pick Their Own Voters The fastest way to win an election isn’t to convince more people. It’s to choose which people get to count. And on Wednesday, six justices on…
We Started a War in February. The Bill Arrived in April. Pull up to a gas station this week and the math stops making sense. Four dollars and eighteen cents per gallon, the highest pump price in four years,…
Worse Than 2008, Worse Than COVID, and We’re the Ones Holding the Bill A quarter century covers a lot of ground. Two recessions. A pandemic that snapped supply chains in half. A financial crisis that gutted retirement accounts and…
The 48 Votes Standing Between Us and a Different Kind of Presidency Pennsylvania matters. Michigan matters. Wisconsin matters. If you live anywhere else, your presidential vote is mostly decoration. That sounds harsh until you look at the numbers. In…
Half Our Missiles Are Gone. The Bill Is Just Starting. $1.9 billion in cruise missiles launched in just sixteen days. That’s what we spent firing 535 Tomahawks into Iran during the opening weeks of Operation Epic Fury. And that…
One in Five Trump Voters Wants Him Gone. That’s Not a Blip. Something shifted this month, and you can see it in the polling, the pundits, and the portfolios. A new Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll released this week shows…
When the Revolving Door Only Spins One Way Count the empty chairs in Trump’s Cabinet this week. There are three now, and if you line up the nameplates, a curious pattern emerges. Kristi Noem out in March. Pam Bondi…
Red tulips on a marble floor. That is what it took to stop traffic in the halls of Congress yesterday. Sixty two veterans and military families walked into the Cannon House Office Building rotunda, stood in a quiet circle,…
They Worked Around the President. We Should Be Worried Imagine this. The president of the United States, the man who holds the nuclear codes, is pacing the West Wing screaming at his staff for hours on end. Two of…
Inflation Wasn’t Defeated. It Was Reloading. Back in January, standing before global leaders at Davos, Trump declared victory. Inflation, he said, was finished. Grocery prices, gas, mortgages, rent, car payments, all of it supposedly tumbling fast. Three months later,…
New Poll Reveals Key Voting Bloc Digging Trump’s Midterm Grave If you want to understand where the 2026 midterms are heading, stop watching cable news for a minute and pay attention to Latino voters. A sweeping new poll from…
The Generation That’s About to Change Everything Here is a number worth thinking about: 72 percent. That is how many voters aged 23 to 29 disapprove of Donald Trump’s job performance, according to the new Spring 2026 Yale Youth…
We Feel Bad About the Economy. That’s the Problem. The numbers say one thing. We feel something entirely different. And right now, that gap matters more than almost any economic statistic you could cite. Consumer sentiment in April collapsed…
A Blockade, a Nuclear Standoff, and Your Gas Tank So here we are. The peace talks failed. And now we’re blockading the Strait of Hormuz. After 21 hours of face to face negotiations in Islamabad that Vice President Vance…
When the World Stops Trusting Us This week, as U.S. and Iranian officials sit down in Islamabad for talks to figure out what comes next after 40 days of war, a new round of polling dropped that tells a…
You’re Already Registered. You Just Don’t Know It Yet. Something slipped under the radar this week while everyone was watching oil prices and ceasefire negotiations. Quietly, without much fanfare, the government moved forward on a policy that every parent,…
We Were 90 Minutes From World War. Let’s be honest with each other about what just happened. At around 6:30 Tuesday evening, less than two hours before a presidential deadline that threatened to level Iranian civilian infrastructure, we stepped…
We spend a lot of time debating how we look to each other here at home. Red versus blue, left versus right, who is winning the argument of the day, even who looks the best in designer duds. But…
It is getting harder to tell where the line is anymore. What started as a military operation now sounds like something else entirely, and the tone alone tells you this is moving in a direction that should make all…
