My wife sometimes asks me with genuine curiosity; why the male fascination for violence & war? I have to yield to Robert Fagles for an explanation I deeply felt, but could never put in to words as elegantly. If you share this sentiment, remember, there is nothing wrong with it.

Imagine being a scientist investigating vaccines in the U.S. After years of research and millions spent, your study is blocked from publication because your data doesn't support RFK's and the FDA's battle against vaccines. This is why people like me were forced to leave.

Every free speech activist needs to drop everything else and focus on this administration. They've made the "which side is worse?" question so easy to answer.

Perfect example is this guy. "There's likely to be a deluge of reporting and books coming." Just never happened. And when you bring that up, all they can do is scream "PARTISAN. BIDEN DEAD-ENDER. OPEN YOUR EYES!" And when you ask what bombshells the Original Sin book had, you

Some years ago the discourse was that free trade would eventually make China more like the West The opposite happened, the West has become more like China The ultimate irony is that Beijing hates it

The Iron Law of US/Israeli Foreign Policy is that the Iranian government is at all times a) not going to survive the year and b) 16 seconds away from being a nuclear power.

If you believe that Donald Trump is not making a killing on this, I have a ballroom to sell you.

Japan may already be entering a quiet version of a reverse Plaza Accord. Markets still treat yen weakness as temporary, but the broader policy direction suggests something deeper may be happening. A weaker yen boosts manufacturing competitiveness, supports domestic investment,

Thomas Massie reveals that the White House took Lauren Boebert to the White House Situation Room, a room used for major crises, and demanded that she remove her name from the Epstein discharge petition. "The president vetoed a bill that would've brought water to a large portion

Brutal but true

Zelensky actually maneuvered Putin brilliantly here--and now there will be no ceasefire over the May Day Parade.

When the illusion finally cracks, you’re left staring at the reality you tried to ignore: the man you trusted wasn’t a savior, just a hollow performance propped up by bluster and ego. The confidence, the promises, the swagger,it all collapses into something far less impressive.

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a country lose soft power at the pace the US currently is. They’ve pissed off every single ally.

The past several weeks of warnings from Russia's largest bank heads now becoming reality as Russians are draining their bank accounts.

i hadn't before thought of Citizens United as a major enabler of populism, but intuitively this makes great sense.

Something to consider as Republican states look to redraw their maps following Callais: unlike in TX or NC or FL, where there will still be Dems in the delegation or statewide, these states are considering getting rid of all of their Dem voices. That could give some pause…

"From pardons to prediction markets, the transactional nature of the Trump administration is perhaps its most obvious characteristic. And transactional people often soothe their own consciences with the belief that everyone else is ultimately transactional as well — the only

"I'm all for a big tent except for Ezra Klein and everyone to the right of him" is actually pretty consistent with "I'm all for building housing except for the housing that isn't subject to 20 years of community input."

Wow. Chaos on the Tennessee House floor. Tennesseans yelling in the gallery and Democrats locking arms in one final stand, as Republicans vote to advance new congressional maps that will carve up the state’s only majority-Black congressional district.

A few recent changes I've noticed to Trump's narratives: They're more fantastical. He fixates over his own cognition. His falsehoods are more diametrically untrue. His break from reality is widening. He more rarely speaks informationally at all. Wee-hour panic-posting has