Independent politics, power, and the stories we tell. Read in order, or follow the question that brought you here.
2. Polarization: A Mechanical Failure
3. Gun-Toting, Tree-Hugging Real Talk
4. The Two-Party Scam: How Republicans and Democrats Hijacked the Constitution
5. The Founders Never Asked Us to Stop Thinking
6. The 9th Amendment: The One They Don’t Want You to Know About
7. The Bipartisan Circus Part One: Republicans, Democrats, and Other Dangerous Animals
8. The Bipartisan Circus Part Two: America’s Most Ignored Best Seller
9. Red vs. Blue: The World’s Most Pointless Game Show
10. The Media: Gasoline on a Grease Fire
12. "AMNESTY"
14. We've All Been Brainwashed
15. The Machiavellian States of America: Not Sun Tzu. Machiavelli.
16. The Left Cries, The Right Lies, The Rest of Us Work
17. We the People
18. Who the Hell Is Cornhusker Majority?
19. ICE and the Stanford Experiment
20. The Curious Case of Senator Mark Kelly and Whiskey Pete Hegseth
21. The Epstein Files: A Masterclass in “Totally Trustworthy Justice” and Other Fairy Tales
22. Trump, Murdoch, and the Billion-Dollar Boob Drawing
23. The Epstein Files Didn’t Expose a Client List. They Exposed Something Worse.
24. Trump Promised a Revolution. All We Got Was a Rerun of the Same Con.
25. The Big Beautiful Bill: A Bulldozer or a Band-Aid?
26. Tariffs Are Great! (MAGA’s Inability to See Outside of Their Box)
27. The Kennedy Crisis: When Public Health Becomes a Punchline
28. What if the United States is helping commit genocide?
29. What If the US Bombing Iran Was Staged?
30. The Ballrooms That Bind Us: How a $300 Million Dance Floor Will Save America
Murder in the Culture War
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