Trump Urges National Unity; Vows Revenge on Enemies
The speech contained multitudes. Specifically, two that could not coexist.
Editorial · Featured
The Disclosure Moment
If at this point you don't believe aliens are here and observing us, maybe you're the conspiracy theorist. They're here, they came in a sphere, get used to it.
Bits · Future Headlines
Pieces
Cesar Chavez and the Question Nobody Wants to Answer
The NYT exposé forces the oldest reckoning in public life: what do we do when a hero turns out to have done terrible things?
Pieces
The Save Act Is Theater. Until It Isn't.
Trump's election overhaul bill is probably too extreme to pass — but heads he wins, tails he wins, and if it lands on its rim, he wins that too.
Pieces
Cuba Was Chicago Before Castro Made It a Museum. Now Trump Wants to Buy It.
On the surprisingly long history of everyone misreading Cuba, and what a "friendly takeover" would actually look like in practice.
Pieces
900 Billionaires. $55 Trillion. And Nobody's Having Fun.
The rich got richer at stunning velocity since 2017. Now they need full-time security. Is a trillion dollars worth that kind of paranoia?
New Rules
New Rule: Someone Has to Explain Cows...
Since biologists believe animals developed camouflage to evade predators, someone has to explain cows.
Interview
Sen. Elissa Slotkin: "No One in Government Should Be Placing Bets Based on Insider Information — Especially on Issues of War and Peace"
On her new prediction markets bill and why the people making policy shouldn't also be making money off it.
Bits
2026 Ballot Propositions
Texas passed Prop 22, raising the legal purchasing age for an assault weapon to 4.
Bits · 24 Things: Pete Hegseth
24 Things: Pete Hegseth
I don't know the meaning of "surrender." Or "last call."
Bits · Revisionist History
George Washington: "I can tell a lie — and every future president should be able to as well."
The Trump administration is revising historical information they deem "anti-American."
Monday Pages
Take That, Windmills.
The Interior Dept. gave a French company its $1B back to cancel offshore wind leases. The French will now drill for oil instead. This isn't negligence anymore.
Bits
Signs Your Barbie Doll is on Fentanyl
She looks like a Troll Doll now.