America Is Broke.
Tuesday the number crossed $40 trillion for the first time in history.
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Every week, I connect today's headlines to the history they never taught us. For the people doing the work of staying informed.
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Democrats Are Still Answering 2026 With 2016
The Democratic Party establishment would rather control a losing party than lose control of a winning one
Why Are American Sailors Jumping Off an Aircraft Carrier?
Every week, I connect today's headlines to the history they never taught us. For the people doing the work of staying informed.
Living and Noticing
One night I went looking for a passage about the laws that once made it a crime to teach a person to read.
The Ghost Recession (Part 2)
You tweaked the résumé.
These History Books Will Make Your Kids Impossible to Lie To
How power actually works, who got erased, and where we go next. Mainstream history can be rewritten. The books on your kids shelf in your house cannot.
Nobody Repealed Voting Rights. They Just Stopped Enforcing It.
Sixty-one years ago today, Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act with fifty pens.
Any One of These Would Have Ended a Presidency
Days ago, Capital One told a federal court in Miami why it closed more than three hundred accounts tied to Trump, his family, and his businesses in March 2021.
James Baldwin: The Colonizing Mind
There is a reason, after all, that some people wish to colonize the moon, and others dance before it as before an ancient friend.
They Undressed the Girls and Called It Free Speech
This week, Elon Musk’s AI company sued the state of Minnesota over a first-in-the-nation law banning nudification technology.
They Told Us All to Become a Personal Brand and We Did
Turn yourself into a personal brand.