When it comes to raw betrayal of American values, one may struggle to name a day in history worse than yesterday. There are contenders to be sure, but this day had a lot to offer: bringing in an ally to berate him on the world stage, peppering him with Kremlin talking points, leaving Europe gasping, asking — […]

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The American constitutional order has been broken, and it’s not clear it can be recovered. Many are still in denial about it, and continue to report on political machinations, business as usual. But this is just muscle memory: journalists have beats and write the stories they are expected to write, and the great game of […]

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There is no point in sugarcoating it: the United States has been captured by adversarial interests. Whether we’re talking about Putin’s grip on Trump and Musk or their deference to Xi, or about tech bros and their devotion to neo-reactionary fascism, or about the disastrous string of foreign-aligned cabinet confirmations, America is in deep trouble. We may […]

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In 1971, a lawyer named Dr. Peter Beter claimed that the vaults at Fort Knox had been emptied of their gold. Beter, who had run for governor of his home state of West Virginia in 1968 (and lost) said that he had heard this from two British intelligence officers he had encountered after establishing a […]

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In the first weeks of the second Trump presidency, one thing has become clear to the public: Elon Musk is the power behind this administration and Trump is merely doing his bidding. Musk has illegally commandeered multiple agencies while also capturing their data systems, removing thousands of employees, and imposing a de-facto restructuring of longstanding […]

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