A commission has adopted a technique George Orwell identified in his 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language” — using reassuring words to make policies that might otherwise face resistance seem natural, inevitable, even benevolent. The wall of separation becomes adversarial, divisive, hostile to cooperation. The bridge becomes open, connecting, positive.

In 2025, the FBI reported almost 10,000 incidents of American Indian and Alaska Native people going missing.

We measure for success. If that measure is earnings then we optimize for earnings. Social value measured on an earnings scale doesn’t just get deprioritized, it doesn’t exist.

What legal scholars are seeing behind the smoke screen is far darker. They say the single most radical thing the court did wasn’t confirming birthright citizenship, but instead it was the dismantling of barriers that had long insulated a broad sector of the federal government from raw presidential control.

I was at this local wine-tasting thing in my small community of the Key Peninsula the other day when the subject of politics came...

With President Trump’s bungled war in Iran, bungled renovation of the Reflecting Pool, not to mention bungled tariff war with the whole wide world,...