Pete Hegseth is trading Army competence for ideological loyalty
I’ve spent my life watching people in power treat human beings like line items on a ledger.
By Alma Cordero ·
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Sony and Microsoft took the cash while gamers paid the tariff
There is a particular brand of corporate cynicism that emerges when a company discovers it can charge the customer for a crisis and then pocket the government’s apology for that same crisis.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
Harry Handler survived 2 World Trade Center, but the state failed
The most terrifying phrase in the English language is not a scream, but a corporate directive.
By Elena Rossi ·
Trump turns the USPS into a political weapon to kill the vote
There is a particular kind of cruelty in the way power treats the machinery of democracy: it doesn’t always smash the machine; sometimes, it just gums up the gears until the clock runs out.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
Trump's real estate deal for Ukraine is a countdown to catastrophe
The diplomatic theater currently unfolding between Moscow and Kyiv is not a peace process; it is a transaction.
By Klaus Berger ·
The FBI's hunt for Manjit Singh Bedi is a trophy hunt
When you’ve spent a decade in an ER, you learn that the people who suffer the most are the ones the system treats as invisible.
By Josie Calloway ·
The Trump administration slanders science, and the AMA fights back
In my father’s printing shop in Bologna, we understood that a page is only as reliable as the press that produces it. If the machine is misaligned, the truth becomes a smudge.
By Elena Rossi ·
Pete Hegseth is right to purge the Joint Staff traitors
When you’re on the flight line, you don’t want the enemy knowing your fuel state, your payload, or where your blind spots are.
By Grant Colby ·
The United States chose to defend a distorted map and lost
In the diplomatic world, there is a particular kind of loneliness reserved for the state that votes "no" when 164 others vote "yes." It is the loneliness of the outlier, the state…
By Tom Beckwith ·
Tim Andrews and Massachusetts General Hospital bought a risky bridge
There is a stark arithmetic to human failure that no amount of rhetoric can obscure.
By Klaus Berger ·
Elon Musk is treating the 2026 midterms as a corporate acquisition
There is a particular kind of vertigo that comes from watching a man who once led the Department of Government Efficiency decide that the most "efficient" way to govern is to simply buy the governors.
By Elena Rossi ·
ICE officer Christian Castro lied, and the state protected him
The most dangerous thing in a democracy is a man with a badge and a script.
By Emilio Quesada ·
Christopher Waller's gamble is a tax on the poor
When the price of a gallon of milk or a bag of flour jumps in the Segundo Barrio, it isn’t a "data point" for the people living there.
By Alma Cordero ·
Trump sabotaged FEMA, and now he is merely recovering
By Tom Beckwith ·
Trump is trading global stability for the ego of a hard hit
Coming from the Atlantic edge of Ireland, I have spent my career watching how the big capitals treat the small, sovereign players on the periphery.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
Quiz: What other historical figures have appeared on US currency?
The U.S. Mint loves a good press release.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·