Paradise, Paved

Sorry I'm late. Yesterday was Key West. If you've never done the drive down the Keys, it starts to feel like the ocean is closing in around you, which it is. Strip of road, water on both sides, and eventually the end of the country. We&

Not Yet Enough to Matter

How Jeffrey Epstein Survived Decades of Institutional Failure The press writes Jeffrey Epstein as a dark magician who appeared from nowhere, bought half the ruling class, and carried his secrets to the grave. That version is dramatic. It is also too easy. It lets institutions off the hook. The real

Putin's War, Trump's Bombs

The war started on a Saturday morning, the way the worst ones usually do. Trump announced it on Truth Social — a platform he owns a controlling stake in, worth about $1.2 billion — not in a televised address to the nation, not before Congress, but as a digital dispatch on

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Hillary Clinton’s Opening Statement: What She Said Hillary Clinton said congressional investigations are too often “partisan political theater.” “The Committee justified its subpoena to me based on its assumption that I have information regarding the investigations into the criminal activities of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Let me be

The Playbook

Two leaders. Two invasions. One playbook. On February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin sent Russian armor across the Ukrainian border without a declaration of war, without UN authorization, without a shred of legal cover that wasn't invented that morning in Moscow. He called it a "special military operation.

Ignorance

Trump is destroying our access to information. Not by accident. Not as a side effect. As policy. He is gutting the media—watch the Washington Post if you need a case study—and corroding the shared body of facts that once held this country together. He doesn’t just like

Who Shall We Kill Today

War used to move at the speed of people. Analysts stared at photographs. Intelligence officers argued over reports. Lawyers reviewed targets. Commanders debated what might happen if the bomb hit the wrong building. Days passed. Sometimes weeks. War was slow because humans were slow. That era is ending. This week

The One-Man War Machine

Efficiency used to mean something else. Factories. Supply chains. Cutting waste, not corners. Doing more with less without breaking the system that made it possible. Now it means something simpler. One man decides, and things explode. No committee, no delay, no vote that matters. Congress still exists, technically—like an

This is Not True

FICTION On January 25, 2025, Xi Jinping purged General Zhang Youxia—his most trusted military deputy, a childhood family friend, a man kept past retirement out of loyalty. The charges: corruption, disloyalty, possibly leaking nuclear secrets. The message: no one is safe. What follows is that story, adapted. The names

Nothing but Lies

I Went to Bed February 27, 2026 I went to sleep early Tuesday night and spent the hours between midnight and four in the kind of dreams that don’t let go—Lanying shaking me awake twice, Cat pressed against my chest like she knew. I’d never imagined we

Arsonist

Summary: The Doomsday Clock sits at 85 seconds to midnight, driven by what scientists call a “failure of leadership.” The pattern is blunt: Trump’s decisions repeatedly benefit Russia while weakening alliances, arms control, Ukraine, and global stability. Three explanations converge—ideological admiration for autocracy, financial entanglements, and possible kompromat

The Hat

Summary: There is a kind of man you meet more often as you get older. He served briefly — six months, a year — and couldn’t wait for it to end. Now it’s the most important thing in his life. The career is gone. The titles expired. But “veteran” never