I work for the military in a small building in the middle of nowhere with roughly eight other guys for 12 hours a day. The building I work in allows no outside electronics inside. There are no phones, no Spotify, no doomscrolling. All we have to pass the time between work is to play cards […]
“At last,” Socrates asks in Plato’s Republic, “the tyrannical man is left for us to consider, his change from the democratic man, his character after the change is accomplished, and his mode of life, whether miserable or blessed?” At last, yes. The midterm election results for the historical pattern, the routine flipping of popular opinion […]
I’m interested in understanding compulsory military service, an experience so very different from my own, so I recently spoke with former Army Sgt. Cliff Cahoon, who was drafted during the Vietnam War. The conversation has given me much to contemplate. Cliff graduated from Ingraham High School in Seattle in 1967. The Vietnam War was raging […]
A historic election week is ending, but the debate about the future of the Republican Party is just beginning. On one side are those who see the midterms as a wholesale repudiation of President Trump — or at least a startling reminder that neither he nor his party is immune to the laws of political...
Schools are scrambling after Google said Tuesday that education leaders need to either accept some AI in classrooms or lose access to its search engine. School officials trying to push back on an encroaching AI are in a bind. The tech giant dominates search online, and it didn't give much time for districts to...
President Trump sent a blunt message to the incoming Democratic majority on Capitol Hill by tapping Stephen Miller to be his new chief of staff, setting up what is likely to be a contentious two years between both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. Miller is loathed by most Democrats, many of whom view him as xenophobic...
With the midterm elections in the rearview mirror, the Senate is barreling ahead with major energy and infrastructure legislation in the lame-duck session. The bill, which seeks to make it easier to build energy and other infrastructure projects more quickly, is slated for a procedural vote in the Senate on Monday, a key test of...
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) blasted President Trump’s Friday decision to replace outgoing White House chief of staff Susie Wiles with top adviser Stephen Miller, saying the president “needs to rethink” his decision. “I've criticized a lot of the president's advisors for bad advice that I think … created some of the environment on Tuesday, but...
Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson (R) declared the Badger State blue in a post-election interview Wednesday, pointing to recent statewide defeats for the GOP — including in its gubernatorial race. “Wisconsin is no longer a purple state,” Thompson told Wisconsin Public Radio. “We haven’t won a statewide race for a long time. Wisconsin is a...
The Justice Department (DOJ) requested Friday to dismiss its lawsuit against California, which sought to make the state's election officials set aside roughly 20,000 ballots for voters the federal government alleged were not U.S. citizens. The Supreme Court already ruled against the Trump administration in an emergency order ahead of Election Day, preventing them from...
California voters are rejecting a proposal to impose a wealth tax on billionaire residents, marking a major win for tech and business executives, who spent hundreds of millions against the measure, according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ). According to DDHQ's analysis, 54 percent voted against the measure, while 46 percent voted for...
Rep. Aisha Wahab (D-Calif.) is projected to win a full term representing California's 14th District after Tuesday's rematch against fellow Democratic candidate Melissa Hernandez, according to Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ). Wahab's victory comes just months after she beat Hernandez in August in a special election to fill the seat vacated by former Rep. Eric Swalwell...
Calley Means, a former top adviser to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., ripped outgoing White House chief of staff Susie Wiles over her tenure, arguing in a Friday interview she led the Trump administration to consistently bow to corporate interests when it came to health policy. During a two-hour long Friday episode of “The...
