Commentary

  •   The seizure of a foreign leader and plans for external governance violate core principles of international law and expose how quickly power can be substituted for process. There Is No Legal Basis for America’s Seizure of Venezuela Strip away the moral language and the Trump administration’s action in Venezuela collapses into something far simpler…

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  • There is a reason this image makes people recoil. It is not because it is rude, or partisan, or unfair. It is because it collapses decades of denial into a single, unavoidable truth, much of the world’s current instability can be traced back to leaders who have stayed far too long, learned nothing new, and…

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  •   Let’s dispense with the cowardly qualifiers. Not that I blame him, I actually stand up for JD Vance who told a white Christian nationalist who insulted JD’s wife to “Eat Shit.” I don’t dislike that statement at all. But then again I stand for all women and…any man that defends them. Then again this…

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  • The documentary Breakdown (1975) is not nostalgic comfort viewing. It is a rebuke. The documentary captures a period when political anger did not end with expression but moved, slowly and relentlessly, toward consequence. Organizing was physical. Pressure was sustained. People showed up repeatedly, often anonymously, and often at personal cost. There were no metrics to…

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  • Colorado does not have a money problem. It has an accountability allergy. Time for a break from the Epstein files for something closer to home. If I’m two cents short on a tax payment, the federal government knows instantly. Not eventually. Not after an audit. Instantly. Letters appear. Deadlines harden. Interest accumulates. The system is…

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  • When the Cameras Turned Off, So Did They MTG and Lauren Boebert’s Epstein silence is the loudest sound in Washington. They were never subtle about it. For days, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert wrapped themselves in the language of “transparency,” pounding podiums and timelines with righteous fury. Release the Epstein files, they demanded. Expose…

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  • Tyranny by Proxy

    Venezuela is not the enemy. It is the collateral. For years, U.S. leadership has treated Venezuela less as a nation of human beings and more as a stage prop for domestic political performance. Sanctions, threats, and militarized rhetoric are deployed not to protect lives, but to project strength. The result is predictable. Civilians suffer.Power consolidates.…

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  • They Were Meant to End the Conversation What was billed as a release of the Epstein files was not a reckoning. It was a controlled exposure. A demonstration of how power survives scandal not by denial, but by dilution. The public was given photographs without context, fragments without substance, and insinuations carefully stripped of consequence.…

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  •   When Donald Trump announces that he will address the nation, it is no longer a signal of leadership. It is a warning flare. These appearances arrive not when clarity is needed, but when scrutiny becomes unavoidable. Right now, scrutiny is everywhere. While Americans face stubborn inflation, unaffordable housing, and eroding financial security, Trump’s White…

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