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The Billionaire Philanthropist Who Never Worked in Intelligence Now Runs U.S. Intelligence
The Trump administration's appointment of Bill Pulte as Director of National Intelligence represents either a bold experiment in disruptive leadership or a dangerous gamble with America's most sensitive secrets. Given Pulte's complete…
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America Was Always Great — But We Keep Forgetting What That Means
America was always great — but have we forgotten what made it so? There’s a phrase that’s been rattling around our politics for nearly a decade now, and it rests on a…
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Ukraine War Briefing: $3.8 Billion Still Frozen as Kyiv Holds Eastern Lines
The war in Ukraine enters a grim calculus as winter 2025 approaches: American military aid sits unused while Ukrainian forces face renewed Russian pressure along a 600-mile front. Nearly $3.8 billion in…
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The Lamp We Must Each Become
The mornings in the Andys Mountains arrive slowly. Darkness does not flee at the first hint of dawn—it lingers, testing the resolve of the light. I have learned to sit in that…
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The Avalanche Didn’t Just Lose — They Folded Like a Cheap Tent in a Blizzard
Listen up, hockey fans — and especially you, Jim, because I KNOW you're reading this with your smug little "I told you so" face — the Colorado Avalanche didn't just exit the…
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Harry’s Right About the Avs — And That Makes Me FURIOUS
Listen, I hate agreeing with my brother more than I hate losing money on sports bets, and brother, I REALLY hate losing money on sports bets. But Harry's post-mortem on the Avalanche…
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Blue Origin’s New Glenn Stumbles Out of the Gate While Musk’s Starship Keeps Exploding Forward
The Blue Origin New Glenn rocket has given the space race a new spectacle, and it's not the one Jeff Bezos wanted. Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket successfully reached orbit on its…
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The Fun Side of the Island Is Waiting for Us
Here's what I know to be true: We're tired. Bone-tired of the anger. Exhausted from the constant churn of outrage, the daily feed of cruelty, the way hate has become the loudest…
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The Man With the Golden Grift: Trump’s Gilded Obsession and the Villains Who Came Before
There's something about gold that makes certain men lose their minds. Not the quiet appreciation of a wedding band or the historical weight of Fort Knox. I'm talking about the gaudy, ostentatious,…
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We Were Never Perfect — But We’ve Been Better Than This
I've been hearing a lot of people say "Make America Great Again" — as if we need to reach backward through time to find our best selves. And I've been hearing just…



