Death by Ballot Prop: How California Outsourced Legislation to the MobJan 29
a brief history of organized shoplifting rings, housing deadlocks, and other fun consequences of the state's 'direct democracy' experiment
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Tenderloin on the Potomac
in 2023, washington dc saw its deadliest year in over two decades — is it time for the federal government to “take over” the district? a primer on dc home rule
Riley Nork
May 30, 2025
Just a few weeks into his second term, President Trump was speaking to reporters on board Air Force One when he offered a proposal that, on its face, might send your average MSNBC viewer into catatonic shock:
“I think we should take over Washington, D.C.”
Allow me to reassure any readers with ‘In This House We Believe’ signs in their yards — the President wasn’t referring to some kind of January 6th Part 2: Electric Boogaloo situation here. There was no call-to-arms for a viking-helmeted militia, no push for breaching the Capitol Rotunda, no appointment of Big Balls as ringleader of this hostile takeover (you can relax, Scott Galloway).
Death by Ballot Prop: How California Outsourced Legislation to the Mob
The Secret NIMBY Millionaire Behind California's Asset SeizureJan 27
robert reich, 4'11" champion of california's 'wealth tax,' has built a lucrative career collecting taxpayer dollars to peddle anticapitalist rhetoric (he's also secretly a nimby)
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Dispatch from Davos: The SXSW for GlobalismJan 26
a recap of this year’s annual gathering of the world economic forum: highlights, trump v. the bugmen, and is ‘sparkle beach ken’ the best political insult of all time?
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