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Current events 6 min read Jun 30, 2026

America at 250: the founders never meant for any of this to be permanent.

The semiquincentennial is being staged as a celebration of continuity. The men we are being asked to celebrate would have found that idea ridiculous.

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Current events 6 min read Feb 24, 2026

Project 2025 came for the Department of Education. Here's what that means for queer kids.

The administration that spent the campaign insisting Project 2025 was a heritage-foundation thought experiment with no operational future has, in its first sixteen months, implemented roughly eighty percent…

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