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More than four decades after its resurrection in the Reagan era, trickle-down economics continues to terrorize Western economic policy like Jason Voorhees stalking the shores of Crystal Lake. Despite substantial evidence questioning its effectiveness and coinciding with periods of economic carnage, this slasher ideology keeps coming back, seemingly indestructible and

The debate started over flags at protests—whether waving the Stars and Stripes at anti-Trump demonstrations was tactically sound or morally bankrupt. But that exchange, like most political arguments these days, quickly spiraled into bigger questions about purity versus pragmatism, and why one side seems to keep winning while the

The Critic, the Ideological Range Life, and How We Got There A Finnish Bluesky user recently posted about how reading Hitler's Mein Kampf hadn't turned him into a Nazi, questioning the whole "monkey see, monkey do" anxiety that drives so much contemporary cultural criticism.

In Portland, a man leaves the central library on a Tuesday evening, sees a disturbance, intervenes, and gets stabbed by teenagers with skateboards. In Memphis, violent crime drops 16% year-over-year, but residents still wake in cold sweats about grocery store closures. In Gateway, twenty-five years and $88 million in urban

How The Observer's Cover Reveals the Unequal Exchange Rate of Bodies An analysis of political body monetization in contemporary media Introduction: The Perfect Transaction The August 17, 2025 cover of The Observer presents what appears to be sympathetic journalism: a soft-lit portrait of Zoe Rogers, the 21-year-old autistic

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How Modern Politics is Evolving Beyond Traditional Frameworks A refreshingly optimistic take on contemporary political transformation Introduction: The Age of Political Innovation What we're witnessing today isn't the decline of democracy—it's its evolution! The traditional models of political engagement developed in the 18th

From the Strategic Deterrence Quarterly Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen Reviewed by Dr. Patricia Kellerman, Senior Fellow, Institute for Strategic Studies Annie Jacobsen's Nuclear War: A Scenario offers a viscerally compelling but strategically flawed meditation on nuclear escalation that ultimately undermines the very deterrence frameworks it

On Nuclear Anxiety as Performance 1. The Stage Annie Jacobsen's Nuclear War: A Scenario reads like a Lars von Trier film — expertly crafted inevitability that carries you along in its shockwave while you simultaneously recognize the manipulation. Thirty minutes from first warning to civilizational rubble, told in real-time