You know the old Republican trope: “They get paid to protest.” I’ve always rolled my eyes at that — because I’ve never been paid to stand up for what I believe in, march in the cold, post uncomfortable truths at 7 a.m., or argue with strangers online until
There are days when I wake up absolutely certain of my purpose. And then there are days when I stand in the kitchen holding a cup of coffee, staring into the middle distance, thinking, Surely this is not the full arc of my heroic journey. If you’ve ever had
There comes a point in life when you realize you are not, in fact, a person — you are a collection of emotional carry-on luggage. Some of it is vintage. Some of it is monogrammed. Some of it is clearly broken but you keep hauling it anyway because, at some point
Dear Greenland, Hello. It’s me. America. Or at least the part of America that still feels a deep and abiding need to apologize for that one relative who keeps showing up to weddings drunk, knocking over the cake, and trying to buy the venue. You may remember him. The
We have been sold a very American lie: “If you are not changing the entire world, you are failing.” This is the same culture that thinks: * Hustle is a personality * Burnout is a badge of honor * And rest is something you earn after capitalism is finished with you Let me
If you’re tired, distracted, slightly feral, and occasionally tempted to move into a yurt with no Wi-Fi and one extremely judgmental cat — congratulations. You are having a completely normal response to living in the United States in 2026. If you wake up, check the news, and immediately feel like
Google Willow: The secrets of the world’s most powerful quantum computerFaisal Islam gets rare access to Willow - Google’s quantum computer.BBC News On the tech front, I said this to my college students years ago: whoever wins the quantum computing race will effectively run the world. And
Exhausted, But Still Here Some days it feels like the news is not information anymore. It’s weather. A constant, grinding storm system that never moves on, only intensifies. I open my phone the way you open the door in a hurricane—already braced for what’s going to hit
(or: A Love Letter to Culinary Class Wars) I have a confession that will surprise absolutely no one who knows me: I am currently obsessed with a cooking competition show. Not just any cooking competition show. I am deep into Culinary Class Wars on Netflix, and I am not even
“The Day Democracy Was Attacked — and Still No Accountability”** Friends, Today we mark the fifth anniversary of January 6, 2021 — a day when a mob, fueled by lies and conspiracy, stormed the United States Capitol in an attempt to overturn a free and fair election. A day when the rule
1. Let’s begin with the thing apparently no one in power remembers: if a criminal flees your country, the grown-up, law-abiding response is extradition. Paperwork. Courts. Treaties. Not a smash-and-grab foreign policy. 2. “Narco-terrorism” is a nonsense phrase invented to scare voters and justify bad behavior. Drugs don’t
The thing about Venezuela is that we need to see the Epstein Files. Julie Bolejack, MBA