Something About This Does Not Sit Right With Me I will never completely understand how a company can announce record profits and almost in the same breath tell thousands of employees they have to go. Maybe I understand the business explanation, but understanding the mathematics does not mean I have to like the human consequences.
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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
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A Powerful Argument, but the Facts Matter When I first heard the argument about the government’s proposed Anti-Weaponization Fund, I understood immediately why somebody would connect it to the larger conversation about reparations. In May 2026, the Justice Department announced a proposed $1.776 billion fund as part of the settlement of President Donald Trump’s lawsuit
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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
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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,
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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