Politics & Current Events

What Those Words Really Mean When I hear a president or political leader say that losing the midterms could effectively mean the end of a presidency, I pay attention to what is actually being said. Losing control of the House would not literally remove a president from office. A president would remain president unless he

The Question Needs a Different Beginning When I hear somebody ask why white people and East Asians fundamentally dislike Black people, the first thing I have to challenge is the word fundamentally. No race of people is naturally programmed to dislike another race. White people are not born disliking Black people, East Asian people are

Looking Beyond the Photograph When I first heard about President Donald Trump’s trip to Beijing, what caught my attention was not simply that an American president was meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping. Trump traveled to Beijing in May 2026 with an unusually powerful group of American business leaders, including Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Jensen Huang,

Before Politics, There Was the USFL Long before Donald Trump became president, he was already showing the public a style that would later become familiar on a much larger stage. In the early 1980s, that stage was professional football. Trump owned the New Jersey Generals of the United States Football League, better known as the

The Question That Would Not Leave Me Alone I keep coming back to this question because something about it will not leave me alone. When I think about the 1970s and 1980s, America seemed obsessed with serial killers. Names like Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and others became part of the national imagination.

Remember When Streaming Was Supposed to Save Us Money I remember when streaming was supposed to be the answer to expensive cable. The pitch sounded simple because you could cut the cord, keep your internet, and pay only for the entertainment you actually wanted. At first, that felt like freedom. You did not need a

The Lesson Behind Elite Teams I have always been interested in what separates a high-performing team from a truly elite one. At first glance, the answer seems obvious because we assume the best team is made up of the most talented individuals. That sounds logical, but experience has taught me that talent alone can become

Why Two Parties Feel So Permanent The American political system can make Democrats and Republicans feel as permanent as the Constitution itself. They are not. The Constitution does not require the country to operate with only two major political parties. In fact, the founders themselves disagreed sharply about political factions and did not design a

A Midterm Election With More Than Congress at Stake The 2026 midterms are becoming about more than which political party controls Congress. They are also revealing an argument inside the Republican Party about what being a Republican now requires. In several major primaries, experienced Republican incumbents found themselves fighting opponents supported by President Donald Trump.