What is happening right now, connected to the documented record that explains why. The patterns do not change. The names do.
Editorial note: Unlike investigations, current events posts include the author's analysis and perspective. Opinion is clearly labeled where it appears. The documented record always informs the view, but the view is present.
What We Already Agree On
We already agree that we're tired of wars nobody voted for, that foreign-interest PAC money shouldn't run our elections, and that a full-time job should be enough to build a life. The war powers votes, the money behind them, what happened to Thomas Massie, and the plan for primarying warhawks out of both parties after November.
Current Events + OpinionThe Reasons the Party Won't Admit
The party's loudest voices are blaming Muslims and antisemitism for what is coming in November. The real reasons are a war they promised not to start, billions flowing to the president's family, Epstein files they swore to release, prices that keep climbing, and a coalition they threw away.
Current Events + OpinionIsrael, Turkey, and the NATO Question
A NATO member's president called Netanyahu the Hitler of our time. Netanyahu called Erdogan a Kurdish killer sheltering Iran's proxies. A former US counterterrorism chief says the real reason Washington might leave NATO is to clear the way to back Israel against Turkey, not to save money.
Current Events + OpinionOur loudest voices don't make one. They just name call.
Communist. Marxist. Jihadist. The labels get louder every year and the arguments behind them get thinner. Precise definitions, the historical pattern behind every regime that ever tried it, DSA's own 2026 platform in its own words, and an honest accounting of where the right's own arguments fall apart too.
Current Events + OpinionFive centuries of contested sovereignty, a chokepoint on the Strait of Gibraltar, and a migration crisis that arrived two weeks after a House vote almost nobody was watching
A full history of Ceuta and Melilla, the current migration crisis, Thomas Massie's claim about H.R. 8595, Yair Netanyahu's 2019 post, Pedro Sanchez's break with Israel over Gaza, and what it would mean for NATO if the United States looked the other way.
Current Events + OpinionA 30 day map of every active conflict on earth, and where America actually stands in each one
Eight active conflicts running at the same time: Iran, Ukraine, the Caspian Sea, China and India, the South China Sea, Israel and Lebanon, Sudan, and Myanmar, sourced and dated theater by theater, followed by the case for why America is more entangled in all of it than most people realize.
Current Events + OpinionWhat Flock Safety cameras are, who can access what they record, who profits from them, and why no resident was ever given a direct vote
Over 100,000 cameras across 5,000 communities, funded by public budgets under officials of both parties, with a federal access record that spans two administrations. A private company worth up to 8.4 billion dollars, DeFlock's fight to map every camera, and the surveillance state nobody actually voted for.
Current Events + OpinionBoycotting Anyone Else Will Not
Thirty-seven states now bar contractors from boycotting one specific foreign government. No state restricts boycotting Russia, China, or Myanmar. What the laws actually do, the Abbott vs. San Marcos fight, the bipartisan vote record, and how the international comparison to Israel's own law, France, and the UK actually holds up.
Current Events + OpinionHow Both Parties Learned to Love Price Controls
Democratic leadership is implementing rent control against a near-uniform economic consensus. A growing share of Republican voters wants the same policy their own party's leadership has spent decades rejecting. Neither side comes out of this looking like it believes what it says about government power.
Current Events + OpinionBoth parties have turned the people's house into a prop. The only thing that changes is which side is holding the camera.
In 2023 and 2024, Republicans said the Biden administration had desecrated the people's house. In 2026, Democrats said the same thing about Trump's UFC event. The statements are nearly word for word. The script does not change. Only the team holding it does.
Current Events + OpinionWhat Marco Rubio Said About Cuba, What the Record Shows, and Why the Sourcing Matters
The Secretary of State called Cuba the world capital of radical left-wing terrorism. The drone story came from one anonymous official who admitted it could be a pretext. The terrorism designation has been on and off along partisan lines since 1982. The record is examined here.
Current Events + OpinionHow Two Generations of Policy Left Millennials and Gen Z Holding the Bill
Nominal wages rose 88 percent over twenty years. Real wages rose 12 percent. Housing costs, student debt, and the collapse of the employer-sponsored retirement system did the rest. Neither party built the wall that would have stopped it, because neither party had a financial incentive to do so.
Current Events + OpinionWhat America Is Not Being Told About the AI Data Center Boom
Big Tech committed $725 billion in data center spending for 2026. The people whose electric bills, water supplies, and tax bases will absorb the cost were not in the room when that decision was made. The public health costs, tax subsidies, and wealth transfer hidden behind the AI buildout are examined here.
Current Events + OpinionWhat is coming for Cuba, the Caribbean, and the rest of the Western Hemisphere
While all eyes are on Iran, the Trump administration published a document on whitehouse.gov that almost nobody read. It named their hemispheric strategy outright. Cuba is not the story. The story is what comes after. And it has already started.
Current Events + OpinionThe DOJ dropped federal charges against Ori Solomon with no explanation. It was not the first time an Israeli national walked away from American justice. It will not be the last.
A biolab in a Las Vegas garage. Six illegal firearms. A co-conspirator convicted on twelve federal counts. And a one-sentence motion that made it all go away. The documented record of what happened, and what it means.
Current Events + OpinionHow two powerful coalitions spent more money than any House primary in American history to remove a seven-term Republican who voted with his party nine times out of ten.
On May 20, 2026, Thomas Massie lost his seat after fourteen years in Congress. The race drew more outside money than any House primary in U.S. history. Eighty-five percent of his challenger's maximum donors had previously given to Democrats. The people of Kentucky's 4th District were, in the most literal financial sense, a secondary consideration.
Current Events + OpinionHow America's Young Are Flocking to an Ideology Their Grandparents Buried
Paul Harvey saw it coming in 1965. A 2025 Cato/YouGov survey found that 34 percent of Americans aged 18 to 29 hold a favorable view of communism itself. The polling data, the historical death toll, the bipartisan policy failures driving it, and what neither party has been willing to do about any of it.