Artists (painters, playwrights, film and TV show creators and directors, etc.) quietly synthesize important social, technological and political trends before they become obvious to the general public.
Paying attention to artists and their work provides an important foundation for understanding today’s world through a unique lens
Given the vast resources involved in conjunction with the possibility that many jobs get eliminated in its wake; America is heavily invested in artificial intelligence (AI) and a tech led future. But while optimism abounds as to what new heights…
SCOTUS’s Trump v. United States ruling handed Trump a “get out of jail free card” and Lord Acton’s warning that absolute power corrupts absolutely now reads like a diagnosis. Dillon traces the Progressive Era’s reverse via Project 25 and DOGE, then ties unchecked power to an illegal Iran war and bond-market stress past Bessent’s red line.
The Greatest Generation defeated fascism, yet today’s rhetoric would brand those same patriots Antifa terrorists and “socialists.” Through his father’s WWII service and lifetime feeding hungry schoolchildren, Dillon shows how political labels dehumanize while ICE and a lost Iran war redefine what America stands for.
Unelected for life, lightly supervised on ethics, and central to midterms and presidential immunity: the Court is shaping how American democracy works, or fails, more than most voters realize.
As “communist” becomes the go-to insult for political opponents, the tactic looks less like debate and more like a Roy Cohn playbook: define the enemy, repeat the label, and make complexity disappear.
When Gemini dismissed questions about concentrated media ownership as an “antisemitic trope,” the exchange exposed how AI can defend preferred narratives instead of testing facts, and why independent democratic education still matters.
Considered as a classic of 20th-century literature, Joseph Heller’s 1961 novel Catch-22 comedically told the story of a WWII bombardier named Yossarian who desperately wanted to be declared insane so he could stop flying increasingly suicidal missions. The problem was “Catch-22.”
America is so deeply politically divided at its 250th birthday that it needs two separate and distinct celebrations on its opposite coasts on July 4th to celebrate this seminal holiday. But political schism does not disqualify what remains as a noteworthy achievement in longevity for this still young political experiment.
In 1831, a twenty-five year old French magistrate named Alexis de Tocqueville boarded a ship bound for America. He went, officially, to study the American prison system. But what he was really looking for was something far more personal and far more urgent as he was seeking answers and hope.
As America turns 250, patriotism has been diluted into loyalty tests and lawn-chair symbolism. Two and a half centuries ago it meant risking everything, for self-government, not for a slogan.