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2025 Forecast: Reality Approaches

Journalism's Era of Moral Unmooring

We Know We're Sick / We Don't Know Why

And Now a Word from House Minority Leader Maxwell Smart

The Peasants Are Revolting

Success Is a Major Failure

The Never-Trump Moral Choice and the Trajectory of Bulwark Conservatism

Pediatric Castration, the Practical Core of America's Military Power

Krugman's Ball Deflates

Layered Prisons: Dr. Eithan Haim and the Many Costs of Professional Dissent

Societal Deadweight: What the Prosecution of a Small-Town Texas Surgeon Tells Us About the High Costs of Woke Kulturkampf

You're Very Weird

BREAKING NEWS: Infantryman Drank Beer

Admiral Bartleby Would Prefer Not To (Updated)

Chess With a Pigeon

Don't Bother

Endless Lazy Manipulation: Jay Bhattacharya vs. the "Mainstream"

About the Supposedly Devastating Impact of that Supposed Transgender Ban in the American Military

Faking Normal

Only One Tool

The Military Politics of New Presidents

Trump's Deepest Gift to the Republic

The Dismal Priests of a Dying Church

I Pronounce the New Yorker Dead

The Counterattack Isn't Coming

The Cathy Newman Election

Brief Comedy Note

Day One Task: Depoliticizing the Federal Science Agencies

Trump Derangement is the Stupidest Political Phenomenon of My Lifetime, and Its Idiot Propagators Need to be Shoved Into a Forgotten Corner of the Culture Forever

Election Day Open Thread

The Enervation Election

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Election Update: Same Answer

The Pandemic-Era State of Fear Problem, Updated

After Brezhnev

The Cowboy and the Commissars

Let's Not

I'm Hiding in the Bushes Outside Your Bedroom Because You're Just Obviously So Crazy and the Problem is You

"Martha, Do You Hear Yourself?

I Eat Carburetors for Breakfast

FEMA and the Cultural Illnesses of the Age

Stupidification: The Atlantic Effect

Anne Applebaum is a Terminal Illness

Yesssssssssssssssssss

The Thing That Didn't Happen

More Expensive, So Smaller

Distributed Rescue

Squinting Down at America

Doug Emhoff, Manly Man's Man

As Difficult As It May Be to Believe This, John Kerry Keeps Getting Dumber and Slower and More Pathetic and Horrible

A Potemkin Culture of Word-Shaped Noises

Listen to Norm Eisen, America

Now Witness the Firepower of this Fully Armed and Operational Battle Station

A Firmly Worded Directive on the Importance of Democracy, Addressed to All Citizens from the People's Central Committee on State Security

Don't Make Me Clear This Room

Welcome to the Occupation

Minitrue Rectifies Cat Meat Narrative

The Bubble That Pops the Bubble

Antichrist Defeated by Side-Eye

America Has Rolled By Like an Army of Steamrollers

All Voices Cry Out With Joy as Cabbage Production Soars to 29% of Quota in Glorious Victory for Five-Year Plan

Flicking Off the Asch

The Discourse of Social Collapse and the Growing Impossibility of Basic Discussion

Jackbooted Paste Eaters

But Trump

Debunking Misinformation

Balkanization: A Recipe

When You Only Have One Broken Drum, You're Going to Play...the Drum, Ignoring the Fact That It's Broken

The Hooded One

Centrifuge

Why I am suspending my campaign for President

See It and Hear It Yourself

Gendered Parties, Gendered Conventions, Gendered Performance, Gendered Trajectories

How Does It Feel to Know That All the Other Girls Are Prettier and Skinnier Than You

A Very Loud Carcass

oh no

Andy Kaufman in a Wrestling Match

The UAW Distraction Operation Was Real

The UAW "Charges" Story Gets Weirder [UPDATED, WITH COMPLAINTS]

College Encampment Update: Judge Issues Preliminary Injunction Against UCLA

Trump and Musk Hit With CHARGES [UPDATED]

Timmy Is My Daddy and He Wuvs Me

Got Him

About That HUGE Shift in California

Thumbsuckers Driving Clown Cars

Tim Walz Isn't Being "Swiftboated"

Don Rickles In Aspic for the AWFL Feast

No Thanks

Arizona: The Ghost of Christmas Future

Nazi Ear: Caught!

Writing With His Eyes Closed

Nut Brittle

Still Fighting: A Discussion With California Assemblyman Bill Essayli

This Is Not a Pipe

YAS GIRLBOSS SLAY

Nothing Is True, Everything Is Permitted

I Am Outraged By [have editor fill in blank]

Wilderness as a Reminder

The Danger of Irrational Neighbors

If We Banish This Sacrificial Goat, Our Crops Will Thrive Again

Theory vs. The Thing Itself

Peg Round, Hole Square: Perfect Fit! [UPDATED]

The Trajectory of the Blue Model

Too Obvious

The Dilemma in One Question

The Dolt in the Arena

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean."

Bifurcated

I Briefly Turned My Back on the World

Protecting Democracy by Ending It

They Hate Us For Our Progress

Them's Organic Quinoas, Mister

Blue Highways Natalism

Brave New Frontiers in Willful Ignorance

The Trans-Brandeis Brief

So I Went to America

The 9th Circuit Defends Medical Freedom

Groundhog Day

SHHHHHH! DON'T TELL THE PARENTS

He's a Sackler

Trump Catches FIRE

To Rule Over the Ashes

Lawfare Also Works the Other Way

Never Get High On Your Own Supply

A Variety of Exciting Updates

I Think We Found That Broken Switch

As God Is My Witness, I Thought Turkeys Could Fly

The Purpose of Mainstream Political Journalism is Emotional Manipulation and the Prevention of Understanding

The Horror of Living in Fascist Texas

Mark Pomerantz Told Us This Week Was Coming

Marked to Market

Fenced Minds

Bohica, TCNs

It's "Camping Near a River"

Mark Pomerantz Revealed the Madness of the Trump Cases, While Trying to Do the Opposite

Institutions Going Fully Blind

Unclear on the Concept [UPDATED]

The Propaganda Department Needs Better Internal Logic [UPDATED]

The Relentless Degradation of the Information Environment Advances on Schedule

You Can't Hate These People Enough

"The Attackers Hurled a Firecracker"

Whiskey and Fire

Unprincipled, but Literally

Adulthood is Learned

About That Hypocrisy Charge....

Caged Heat

We Need to Solve This Problem

The Four Problems in American Politics

[Probably Hamas] Shoots at [TBD]

Comfort and Leisure Make You Very Wise

The Increasingly Brave and Powerful Toddler-American Movement

He Eats the Souls of Human Babies

WE'RE ABOUT TO KICK SOME A– wait, hold on a second

Inversion Blender Stuck on Highest Setting [Updated]

Queen of Dulls

California's Child Trafficking Bill Sort of Advances, But.... [UPDATED BELOW]

What Passes for a Controversial Measure

A Brief and Highly Aspirational To-Do List

I'd Wreck That

Mean Extremists Refuse Cup of Poison

The Culture of Manufactured Unity

Junta Demands an Apolitical Military

Orange Math Bad

The Corpse You Can't Stop Dancing With

Mouth Slop

Back Very Soon

The Culture War is 90% Chaff and Decoys

Looking Under the Hood: What Is Community Choice Aggregation Meant to Do?

California Democrats are Building a Giant Political Slush Fund

Escape Velocity

Policy by Stained Glass Window

Vapid and Ghoulish Moral Monsters

Fifty Shades of Orange

The Professions are Becoming Party-Aligned Guilds

The Political Class Is An Industry

Keep An Eye On This Military Development

Politics: The Low Art of Repulsive Noise

Look for the People Who Are Helping

The Free World is Developing Eastern Bloc Political Culture

The Republican Party Doesn't Exist

Corrosion Eventually Becomes Irreversible

Dog Barks at Car

Political Conflict in the Age of Psychic Warfare

Massive Sewage Pipeline: Grand Opening

Earth to Canada

Arizona Legalizes Murder!

FARA is a Farce, and Ukraine Proves It

Emergency Brake

The Authoritarian Threat is Here

The Tragedy of Empty Credentials, Cont.

Against Credentialism

A Quick Note on Some Sanity-Inducing Behavior

The Economist: Written by Cloistered Hostages?

It's Class Warfare All the Way Down

Overpraise is Always a Tell

Apocalypse Now

Far Out to Sea: Dark Lessons of a Trump Trial

Lawfare Accelerates

Hollow

The Way Adults Sound in Peanuts Movies

Three Recent Interviews

How We Talk Now

The Fringe Mainstream

Bold Soviet PBS Documentary Documents Right-Deviationist Counterrevolutionary Crimes by Orange Devil Monster!

Bottom Line Up Front

Before Artlessness

Blue is Red, and Red is Very Bad

Disagreementsurrection!

sHoTs fIReD!!!!

It's Opposite Day

Beat Down (Updated)

Ve Vill Ask Ze Qvestions!

California Parents Are Fighting Back

Vaccines Provide Complete Immunity

Flailing, Emptied Bodies in a Culture of Isolation

Let's Break Some Silos

Arguendo

Eyes and Ears

Looking Behind the Curtain

A Brief Message of Hope

Ground and Pound

No Penetration

Dimwitted Pantshitter Babbles About Hitler

Quaker Guns