Making novelist sense of the child that runs our lives

Is that why the wealthy oppose it?

The answer is yes, and it's nearly undetectable

Embezzler sent back to his Maker, thanks to the State

Hercules contemplates cleaning the Augean Stables By Thomas Neuburger Today is throwback day. On the theme of amending the Constitution without passing amendments, I offer the piece below. I wrote it in 2015, when the world was young and Russians were not irredeemably evil (see Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol  or X Men: First Class ), and Sanders, we thought, might do what Obama wouldn’t. It leans on a Time  magazine  piece by Gary Hart, a Democratic politician to the le

US foreign policy is run to serve its elites. The people are never involved. This was true before Trump.

Fire remade the world in a fundamental way. Part 2 of our look at James Scott's 'Against the Grain'

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In the mind of our Stephen Millers, the time may be now

Digital ID is envisioned as your gateway to everything

Who we are. Why we do what we do.

Shockingly, in sworn Senate testimony, that was her answer. We're going there, folks.

That statement is literally true, thanks to John Roberts and friends

Is something in our nature wrong? Or does 'like create like'?

Part 1 of a series that looks at "Against the Grain" by James C. Scott

When it's an income stream

The light side of the dark side of AI

"We have no rules of the road."

It's been a steroidal summer for the Brownshirt crew. Are the White Hats up to the task?

Why was he working with arms dealers? Was he involved in money laundering? What were his ties, if any, to organized crime?