It’s extraordinarily pleasing to read field reporting from deeply embedded foreign correspondents, a vocation that is shamefully underfunded today given the myriad of crises engulfing the…

In the past week, we saw something very remarkable. In a matter of hours, Democrats saw their chances of winning the Wisconsin Governor election jump from 40% to 77%. What changed? Did new polling…

The 2G scam, read from the actual documents: what the auditor estimated, what two courts decided, what a tribunal in The Hague added in 2025, and exactly what is still pending as of August 2026.

In the last decade and a half, Engagement feeds have crushed your ability to think. Now AI shows up selling a replacement. Your slop-rage is righteous, but misaimed. One sentence of legislation fixes…

Not all plans include the SSBCI support. You can enroll in a Medicare Advantage plan that has the SSBCI even if you don’t qualify for the extra benefits. You can search on Medicare.gov for plans that…

.     This morning, on August 14, 2026, I attended a special event in the Alford Town Hall: Dr. Douglas Cooper, retired litigation lawyer and long-time Thomas Paine scholar, gave a lecture,…

Late last year, Trump Media and Technology Group announced that it planned to merge with TAE, a 27-year-old fusion energy company. It was a weird idea! A strictly inferior version of the X social…

Plaintiff Reddit sued defendants SerpApi and Perplexity AI over alleged efforts to bypass technological measures restricting automated access to Reddit-related content appearing in Google search…

In case you weren't aware, in addition to the OMB proposed rule changes which just concluded their public comment period, the NSF has put forward proposed changes in their proposal procedures for…

Giving up is unforgivable: a manual for keeping a democracy (2024) by Joyce Vance https://a.co/d/0a4O5Teh MW: Alas, no action list! Parts of the book were re-hashing information I was long aware of…

It's an irony of my life that while I wanted as much or more than anything to belong to some kind of larger institution that shared my values, I have instead become more of an intellectual lone wolf…

I wanted to write a new blog post but I wasn’t sure what to write about. I recently saw one of the many right versus left U.S. political posts online and so I thought I’d attempt to say…

There have been a lot of comparisons on social media with the drought of 1976. And there also seems to be a common topic of people denying that climate change is a factor in the current heatwave, as…

My considered analysis of how and why the genocidal State of Israel must be brought to an end, a conclusion, drawn from analogies with the Nazis, from Israel’s entire 78-year blood-soaked history,…

I used to be scared about climate change; but then I read Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario. Now I think that the world will be lucky to reach four degrees. Annie Jacobsen’s…

the raven on pallas’s bust is but a girl like me i see her in the mirror when i write to half-past three: a woman made of dust and bone with eyes all clouded over who’s wrapped in an abaya as she…

what could be worse than betting on wildfires, and then making sure you win by just setting the trees on fire yourself? how about betting someone else's money on israel and then making sure you win…

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has subpoenaed the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) for a copy of all entries in the CDLIS national database of state-issued…

And no one's excited to buy insurance.

Ambedkar called civil disobedience the Grammar of Anarchy. He also said exactly when that judgement applies, and almost nobody quotes that part.