A Rare Look at Actual Diplomacy—And a Glaring Truth About U.S. Foreign Policy
Over the weekend, President Trump sat down with Ukrainian President Zelensky and VP Vance for a diplomatic discussion. Although the internet is abuzz with reactions to the fiery exchanges (and I’ll leave you to decide how to feel about it) the thing that really struck me was that it all happened in front of cameras, […]
The Fog Is Lifting
Something important is happening. It’s been happening in small ways for a while now—mainstream news ratings plummeting, people waking up to the manipulations of social media, trust in institutions collapsing—but now, it feels bigger. A real, tangible shift. Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post, just announced that his paper’s opinion […]
A Pardon Czar? Start with Snowden.
So, Trump has appointed a pardon czar—someone whose job will be to review cases and recommend pardons. If that’s happening, I’ve got the perfect name to put at the top of the list: Edward Snowden. To hear the media report on Snowden over the years, you’d think he was some kind of traitor. Of course […]
Why New Information Makes People So Angry
On Presidents’ Day, we posted our list of the best and worst U.S. presidents. Most people were happy to debate our rankings and offer suggestions of their own best and worst, but there were some who really didn’t like that we included Abraham Lincoln on our “worst” list. The responses we got weren’t really surprising—a […]
Presidents Aren’t Sports Teams—We Shouldn’t Treat Them Like It
Okay, so be honest—when you hear Presidents’ Day, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? A day off work? A sale on mattresses or appliances? That awkward week in school where you had to memorize all the presidents in order (but now you can only remember Washington, Lincoln, and the one on your least […]
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Why “Leave us alone” isn’t enough
There’s a common theme in history: the people who passively ask to be left alone are the ones who eventually find themselves either conquered, or forced to fight the hardest. Think of the American colonists—ordinary men and women who simply wanted to live their lives, trade freely, worship as they pleased, and build something for […]
Valentine’s Day Activity Workbook
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It’s Time to Admit It—Taxation Is Theft
A lot of people think that calling taxation “theft” is a little too extreme. But what else do you call it when the government forcibly takes your money under threat of imprisonment and then squanders it in ways you can’t control, often in ways that don’t help you—or worse, actually harm you? For years, we’ve […]
The media isn’t independent. It never was.
Consider this: If the government could control what people believe, would that be more powerful than controlling what they do? In other words, could they make people believe they were free and informed—and therefore make them comfortable and complacent—if they could simply control the way people viewed the world and their place in it? The […]