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Proof presaged today’s major breaking news: that draconian federal regulations regarding NARA and vice presidents all but ensure outgoing vice…

Jan 24

If you work on controversial topics, you draw attention from polarizing people. But my debunking of a major #TwitterFiles meme led to odder interactions…

Jan 24

U.S. media seems loath to report on how the National Archives deals differently with presidents and vice presidents—though in this distinction lies the…

Jan 22

December 2022

Whatever the big announcement is, America can be certain it will bode ill for our democracy. It could also range from a “nothingburger” to an event that…

Dec 14, 2022

November 2022

Major media has almost universally declared Donald Trump’s political career dead in the wake of the 2022 midterm elections. But the most recent polling…

Nov 15, 2022

If you haven’t heard of the Patriot Party, you need to read this report. This hard-right fringe group could well change the landscape of U.S. domestic…

Nov 14, 2022

With control of the U.S. House and Senate still up in the air, the question of whether Republicans will seek to impeach President Joe Biden is at once…

Nov 11, 2022

Incredibly, after the videotaped incident, which saw Bolduc both assaulting a man and then instantly lying about it to police—a second state crime—the…

Nov 3, 2022

October 2022

More than any U.S. election since 1860, the November 8th election is one in which public perception matters. As public perception is tied to mass media…

Oct 31, 2022

It doesn’t matter if you can conceive of a world in which Marjorie Taylor Greene is president—let alone whether you’d vote for her. The drive to install…

Oct 28, 2022

If you thought New Jersey’s Mehmet Oz—now running for Senate in Pennsylvania, for some reason—was a shameless carpetbagger, wait until you read this…

Oct 27, 2022

Media is trying to shame Hobbs—allegedly on the grounds of principle—into doing what corporate journalism increasingly does, and nakedly, for a profit…

Oct 16, 2022

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