Leadership failures, neglect and what to aim for in 2026 Support my Opinion Writing with a Tip At the beginning of April 2025, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker made a marathon speech on the Washington Senate floor where he characterized the presidency of Donald Trump as a "grave and
Support my Writing with a tip This post is going to contain some strong language and slurs from quoted text messages by bigots J.D. Vance knows what happened to Mike Pence. He knows that Mike Pence was more or less hung out to dry and possibly left for dead
What My Fair Lady's original novel teaches us about AI Support my Writing with a Tip A sculptor, Pygmalion makes a woman, Galatea, out of clay. Because she is made to his exact standards, she is impossibly beautiful and silent. Begging the gods for her to come to
Why Charlie Kirk's legacy matters and how it will keep threatening us Support my Writing with a Tip Charlie Kirk hasn't died. Perhaps he did in body, but not in ideology. This is not a fawning eulogy to him, but a practical assessment of what he
How education is becoming less equal, more censored and sold to tech companies for scraps Support my writing with a Tip Education in the United States has been segregated, unequal and censored long before Donald Trump decided to ever run for office. Any progress to making learning more inclusive, equitable
How Eric Adams' campaign games American racial politics Send me Potato Chip Money here Hongbao. Angpao. Lucky Money. The object goes by many names, but it's synonymous with money in the various cultures that use the thin, fancy envelopes. Occasions we like to use them include but
Support my Writing and Research with a Tip The State Department this week released a curtailed version if its annual human rights report, its first under Secretary Marco Rubio. For those who haven't followed the lore to this point, Rubio essentially built his entire career bona fides in
Support my Writing with a Tip The Trump administration loves censorship. They're constantly belligerent and combative against academic, media and nongovernmental institutions that challenge their power. They constantly twist information when it is not to their liking, and they use whatever means necessary so that the public cannot
Support my Writing with a Tip Stop me if you've heard this story before. Some community member that's been working at a beloved food establishment for decades is taken by ICE in a sweeping raid. People in their community– maybe an American spouse, a neighbor, or
Support my Writing with a Tip Elon Musk is uncool to a lot of nerds, and he's been angry about this fact for a very long time. This hasn't stopped his fascination with trying to be king of the hill in a subculture that he should
Conservatives want to deport Zohran Mamdani. It doesn't really matter that he has no criminal history. It doesn't really matter that he is a naturalized citizen with legal residency in the United States. Both those facts can be altered so that he's no longer
Support my Writing and Research with a Tip Donald Trump decided to launch missiles at Iran at seven o’clock on a late Saturday evening in June. I decided in the aftermath to do a quick scan of how mainstream D.C. policy spaces reacted to the decision. Some shared