Might be the thing that gets me to come back to the US.

This week's Drifter: "Dude, we just got locked in here." drifter.beehiiv.com/p/rails-drifte…

Turkmenistan's pavilion at the Osaka Expo is one of the most surreal things I've seen. The narration over the video in the main room starts: "Whose land is steadfast? Whose people are blessed? Whose glory fills the world? It is independent and permanently neutral Turkmenistan."

The 4th of July seemed like a good day to visit Hiroshima.

This week's Drifter: "I catch an edge, eat shit, face forward, double eject out of my skis." drifter.beehiiv.com/p/altitude-dri…

Crazy journalism movie, never seen another like it: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slap_the_…

Oh. He was the nicest, most patient guy. nytimes.com/2025/07/12/art…

For Mother Jones, wrote about Shawn Ryan, the rightwing Navy SEAL podcaster who has other SEALs saying, "I cannot believe that fucking idiot is a shot caller now." motherjones.com/politics/2025/…

In our most recent issue, Andrew Fedorov with a feature on Shawn Ryan—a former Blackwater employee, current famous podcaster, and a man perfectly suited to our slightly paranoid times As one former Seal told us: “I cannot believe that fucking idiot is a shot caller now.”

After years of building a base with the right, Ryan is going mainstream. He sat down with Gov. Newsom last week (getting a nice review from Pod Save America.) But, those liberals might be surprised by his full history

In their eagerness to praise Shawn Ryan, Democrats like Gavin Newsom and the Pod Save America hosts seem to have missed that he believes their party wants "to put fucking pedophiles on the map and make it okay to molest my fucking kids." A primer on who he really is:

This week's Drifter: "I made my way to Dabob Bay, where I spent a week feeding on fresh oysters and wild blackberries." drifter.beehiiv.com/p/open-road-dr…

This week's Drifter: "There was a question as to the cohesion of the Iraqi security forces at the moment. These guys could have been rogue. They could have been one faction or another. But it was a ride, so we got in the car." drifter.beehiiv.com/p/open-road-dr…

I wrote an essay for The Ideas Letter about the Russian intelligentsia escaping from Russia and from itself. A teaser: “I personally tend to see it as a hereditary caste which perpetually fluctuates between self-sacrificial messianism coupled with inherent subversiveness and—at

There once was a gameskeeper from Texas Whose game was to play young and restless, But the birds couldn't cope When he filled them with soap, So the gameskeeper went out with asbestos.

This week's Drifter: "We stayed in a monastery with a priest early on and he put us in touch with other people, including a hermit who lived on the edge of a mountain. She picked us up from the path and drove like an absolute nutter to her hermitage." drifter.beehiiv.com/p/open-road-dr…

Don't know how many people appreciate the Harvey (1950) themed pub in Saratoga, but I do...

An editorial plan based around "childlike excitement," eh?

This week's Drifter: "Didn’t really sleep much, but that’s cool. Skated all the way to Arizona" drifter.beehiiv.com/p/rails-drifte…

Beautiful doc archive.org/details/n-is-a…