Friday News Roundup

February 28, 2025

Foreign Policy Watch Donald Trump extorted a minerals deal out of Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy in exchange for not abandoning Ukraine to the...

Friday News Roundup

February 21, 2025

Foreign Policy Watch European leaders will gather for an emergency summit on Ukraine, but the more recent catalyst for calling the summit was J.D. Vance’s...

Friday News Roundup

February 14, 2025

Middle East Watch Egypt announced an emergency Arab summit in response to Donald Trump’s proposal to begin the mass forced removal of Palestinians from Gaza....

Friday News Roundup

February 7, 2025

I am currently working on a writing project that has reduced some of my output on this newsletter, but for the duration, I will keep sending you a news...

Friday News Roundup

January 31, 2025

On Sunday, South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol was formally indicted on insurrection charges for declaring martial law this past December. Former U.S....

Friday News Roundup

January 24, 2025

It has finally arrived. It is the first Friday News Roundup after the inauguration of Trump 2.0. I am now realizing that this process may be just as much as...

Friday News Roundup

January 17, 2025

Trump Nomination Watch There are many takeaways from Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing for Secretary of Defense. The hearing included discussion of a 2017...

4 Things You May Not Know About Trump's January 6th Coup

January 16, 2025

In honor of the release of Jack Smith’s report on the January 6th insurrection, I’m going to synthesize some materials from that report as well as the...

Friday News Roundup

January 10, 2025

World News As of last Saturday, a force of 150 Guatemalan troops and a few military advisors from El Salvador arrived in Haiti to combat armed gangs who have...

A Tale of Two Manifestos: Normalizing the Cybertruck Bomber

January 7, 2025

On New Year’s Day in 2025, a Cybertruck exploded in front of a Donald Trump hotel with the driver, Matthew Livelsberger, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot...

A Tale of Two Manifestoes: Normalizing the Cybertruck Bomber

January 7, 2025

On New Year’s Day in 2025, a Cybertruck exploded in front of a Donald Trump hotel with the driver, Matthew Livelsberger, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot...

Friday News Roundup

January 3, 2025

Sadly, the biggest news of the week is the fatal vehicle attack that killed 15 people celebrating New Year’s Day and the Sugar Bowl in the French Quarter of...

The Fest in Budapest: How Conservative Conferences in Hungary Have Created An Authoritarian American-European Alliance

January 2, 2025

If you want to trace how the conservative movement and the Republican Party have evolved over time, one of the best places to look is the annual conferences...

The Counter-Jihad That Created Donald Trump

December 29, 2024

Ever since Donald Trump got elected president in 2016, there has been a long-running debate among leftists, liberals, and centrists about whether Donald...

Friday News Roundup

December 27, 2024

Mass Deportation Watch A MAGA civil war has erupted over Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s support of importing foreign tech workers for Silicon Valley via the...

Friday News Roundup

December 20, 2024

Shutdown Watch The U.S. government faces the possibility of a shutdown effective tomorrow December 21. In addition to federal workers being furloughed,...

Friday News Roundup

December 13, 2024

Nomination Watch After looking like the Trump Administration would fail to get Pete Hegseth confirmed as Secretary of Defense, the Trump team is now...

The Attack on the 14th Amendment

December 9, 2024

Section 1 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution clearly states, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction...

Friday News Roundup

December 6, 2024

Mass Deportation Watch The Biden Administration expanded the use of AI in immigration enforcement, but despite the efforts of Biden's Secretary of Homeland...

Simple Criticism Is Insufficient: Why Democrats Must Obstruct Mass Deportation

December 2, 2024

According to polling by Blueprint 2024 done after the November presidential election, voters think the top two priorities for the Democrats going forward...

Friday News Roundup

November 29, 2024

Pandemic Watch The California Department of Public Health has recently detected H5N1 bird flu virus in California grocery stores after testing a batch of raw...

Our Pro-Immigration Founding Fathers

November 25, 2024

We have lost our way. In despair, I look at a new CBS poll that says 57% of the American public favor starting a program to deport all immigrants in the U.S....

Friday News Roundup

November 22, 2024

Matt Gaetz withdrew as Trump's pick for Attorney General after documents leaked linking Gaetz to paying off teenage girls who participated in sex parties...

How the GOP Mainstreamed Mass Deportation

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The Influence of Immigration on the 2024 Election

How Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Could Expose to the Next Bird Flu Pandemic

November 21, 2024

Donald Trump once called RFK Jr. the “dumbest member” of the Kennedy dynasty, but that didn't stop Trump from nominating him as head of the Department of...

How Democrats Can Fight Back Against Mass Deportation

November 20, 2024

In mid-June of 2024, Newsweek published the article Majority of Hispanics Now Favor Mass Deportation, based on a CBS/YouGov poll of American voters. The...

Friday News Roundup

November 15, 2024

Trump selected Matt Gaetz as his pick for attorney general, at the same time that House Ethics Committee testimony is emerging that Gaetz had sex with a...

Why Did Inflation Topple the Democrats? Part II

November 15, 2024

Exit polls from the 2024 election appear to back up my theory that an increase in the percentage of economically insecure, lower-income voters in the...

Cabinet of Horribles: Trump's National Security Picks

November 14, 2024

Department of State: Trump has named U.S. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida as his choice to head the State Department. In 2013, Marco Rubio had previously...

Why Did Inflation Topple the Democrats?

November 12, 2024

Financial Times columnist John-Burn Murdoch has called the year 2024 a "graveyard of incumbents" due to all the incumbent politicians losing their battles...

Sanity Check Newsletter

November 11, 2024

Hello Readers, This is the announcement of a new newsletter of current events and analysis called Sanity Check. I’ve been inspired to create this newsletter...