Updates, letters, and notes from the movement.
Everybody keeps asking me the same question: What happens after Trump? And I think that’s the wrong question. Because eventually, one way or another, every presidency ends. Maybe Trump serves every last minute of his term. Maybe something unexpected happens before then. I don’t know. Nobody knows. But someday Donald Trump will no longer be […]
I was watching Fox News today, and a commercial came on. At first, I thought it was a Trump campaign commercial. Donald Trump. Images of Donald Trump. His accomplishments. His message. “America will never be a communist country.” Tax cuts. Manufacturing. Law and order. And at the end, Dana White praising Trump as this incredibly […]
When I look back over my life, I realize I’ve spent a lot of it watching ordinary people do extraordinary things. When I was a little boy growing up in Connecticut in the 1960s, I went with my friends to Vietnam War moratoriums. I was ten years old. I didn’t understand geopolitics. I didn’t understand […]
I read this fascinating profile this morning about Mary Peltola, the Democrat running for the United States Senate in Alaska. And what struck me wasn’t whether I agreed with her. It was how difficult she was to describe. She’s a Democrat. She’s pro-gun. She’s pro-oil. She’s pro-gas. She’s also pro-environment. And she’s really, really pro-fish. […]
We are heading toward another election, and I keep coming back to one very simple question: Why, in 2026, is voting still so damn hard? We can move money around the world from our phones. We can buy a house online. We can deposit a check by taking a picture of it. We can unlock […]
Something significant is happening with immigration enforcement in America, and one of the most remarkable things about it is how quietly it’s happening. Think about these numbers. According to this reporting, ICE arrested about 43,000 people in June. More than 49,000 in July. Nearly 51,000 in August. That’s roughly 143,000 people in three months. But […]