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
Support my Writing with a Tip We have this structured and almost procedural cycle of protest violence in the United States a lot. It goes like this: 1. Grievances bubble up en masse, and people then organize en masse as per their constitutional right. 2. Pundits, academics and journalists fixate
Like my Writing? Support the Newsletter with a Donation or Tip We've heard the term "security theater" thrown around here and there. Mostly, it refers to the body scanners at the airport and check-in process that makes people take their shoes off unless they shell
Like what I do? Support me with a Tip here Whenever I watch movies over my streaming app that is riddled with video ads every forty minutes, I take note of the adjustments made to images and copywriting. Car manufacturers ranging from domestic automakers like Jeep and Hyundai either emphasize
Back in the days of 2024 when Donald Trump was running for office and Elon was running Twitter into the ground, the question of Elon's interests in China came up as a potential conflict of interest and security issue among Democratic China hawks. Elon's Tesla factories
Like my Writing and Analysis? Support the Newsletter here The Taiwanese town of Jiufen, a hot-spring resort situated on what once was a mining village. In busy tourist seasons, people most often go to take photos, purchase snacks and relive scenes that resemble Studio Ghibli's Spirited Away.
People love a good protest story, and they love to feel good about protestors visibly showing courage against injustice, repression and authoritarianism. I do too. But there is a line between encouraging others to stand up and mythmaking about the actions of standing up. One is survival, and the other