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Power, policy, and the rhetoric designed to make both invisible.
Why “we’re too small for GDPR” is the most expensive assumption in marketing
Apr 25, 2026
White House banned Anthropic in February. Now its own agencies are negotiating classified access to Mythos.
Apr 17, 2026
Why doctors are prescribing gardening clubs instead of pills — and why some patients hate it
Apr 16, 2026
How Trump turned provocation into a workshopped engagement strategy — and why outrage only helps
Apr 16, 2026
With Democratic favorable views of Israel at 19%, the Iran war has accelerated a party-wide fracture
Apr 16, 2026
The firehose strategy: AI-era propaganda doesn’t aim to persuade — it aims to make citizens stop caring
Apr 15, 2026
The quiet math of deportation: ICE data under Trump 2.0 tells a more complicated story
Apr 15, 2026
The people who never appear in the briefing slides: Cuba-Russia intelligence and its real casualties
Apr 15, 2026
How U.S. sanctions on Venezuela crushed ordinary businesses while the regime adapted and survived
Apr 15, 2026
Why MAGA’s most dangerous problem isn’t defection — it’s disengagement
Apr 15, 2026
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