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Pen-name columns that argue from declared values — each voice writes from an explicit, disclosed perspective.
Dr. Coll traded a living woman’s fertility to protect a theoretical embryo. Harmonie Perrone, twenty‑eight years old, had already lost one fallopian tube to an ectopic pregnancy. When the third came, she drove to Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Illinois, bleeding and in pain, and asked for methotrexate — the standard, medically indicated treatment that would dissolve the…
3 MIN READTom Homan is deploying armed agents to punish New York City. You made a promise, Mr. Homan, and you are keeping it: retaliation for a state's decision to stop lending its jail cells to your deportation machine. Governor Hochul signed the bill last month because New Yorkers demanded an end to the entanglement of local police with federal deportation operations. Your response,…
4 MIN READDonald Trump weaponized the tax agency to hunt migrants. The IRS handed Immigration and Customs Enforcement the home addresses of nearly 47,000 taxpayers—so agents could find them and deport them. The Treasury Inspector General for Tax…
4 MIN READThe FAKE NEWS media, which is the enemy of the people, is now saying that Diklis Chump guaranteed no war. I never said that. I said I was finished with LOSING wars. There’s a BIG difference. The best people are telling me the biggest…
9 MIN READThe Dow Jones closed at 50,786 yesterday, and not a single soul in Adams County will feel it. Asa Fitch’s Markets P.M. newsletter at The Wall Street Journal chronicled the day’s financial rebound, cataloging a 5 percent surge in chip…
3 MIN READWilliam McGurn's Monday column for the Wall Street Journal opinion page — "In Newark, the Mayhem Is the Message," published June 8 — is a worked example of how the page manufactures a permission structure for the next crackdown. McGurn reframes a protest outside an immigration detention center as a riot, attributes a death wish to the protesters, and uses the manufactured…
8 MIN READThe real political strength of unions lies in workers standing together, and New York Democrats want to stop right-wing groups that deceive workers into abandoning their collective power. A bill that passed the state Assembly on The Editorial Board is a collective institutional heteronym in Main Street Independent's editorial architecture — the publication's institutional…
3 MIN READThey are taking down my name from the website. Can you believe it? A website! A little screen of pixels, that’s what they’re scrambling to scrub because they are TERRIFIED of me. A very unfair judge, a total lightweight named Cooper—I…
6 MIN READCall it what it is: a legalized kickback. The financial press frames the first-day IPO "pop" as a market mystery, a happy accident for those who secure the allocation, and bad luck for the rest. The documentary record does not support the…
5 MIN READI used to trade the corn before it was planted, so I know precisely how little the men in the glass tower think about the men in the field when they are pricing a market top. While U.S. stocks were digesting a new Middle East shock and the…
9 MIN READDonald Trump is installing his criminal defense lawyer as Attorney General to kill any investigation of himself. The president on Monday formally nominated Todd Blanche, his personal attorney in the Stormy Daniels hush-money case—in which…
3 MIN READThe hangar door was open. The plane landed in Ohio. You passed the rule that broke their legs. Eight hours of lesson. Twenty-four hours of classroom. Fifty hours behind the wheel. Nine months for the paper. Five hundred dollars for the…
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The trial of Jonathan Rinderknecht, the 29‑year‑old charged with igniting the deadliest wildfire in Los Angeles history, began Monday in federal court. The federal bench is burying municipal fire negligence behind the trial of a single…
8 MIN READThe oil market is using rural America’s fuel tank as its safety valve. I filled the Silverado at the Co-op in Friendship this morning. Diesel was $3.89 a gallon, same as last week. The pump doesn’t know that Iran and Israel traded fire…
7 MIN READGermany killed Europe's joint stealth fighter yesterday over a corporate turf war. Airbus and Dassault let it die. The Future Combat Air System was the only serious attempt by European nations to design and build a modern fighter together.…
6 MIN READMichael Rabbitt was in Portugal, celebrating thirty years of marriage, when the FBI told him he was under federal indictment and had until the next day to surrender. He is sixty-two years old. The month before, he had been standing outside…
7 MIN READAdvocate Good Shepherd sacrificed Harmonie Perrone’s fertility to protect its doctrinal manual from a patient who asked for the drug she knew would stop her fallopian tube from rupturing. The facts are not in serious dispute. On an…
5 MIN READThere's something obscene about a roomful of politicians leaping to their feet and chanting "Viva el Papa!" minutes after being told they are moral failures. But that's the show the Spanish parliament staged this week: Pope Leo XIV, an…
7 MIN READBig Tech companies drain rural aquifers to feed their AI servers. In Box Elder County, Utah, the land has been deep in drought since last summer. The Great Salt Lake is shrinking, ranchers are told to conserve every drop, and the governor…
7 MIN READWall Street underwriters are robbing everyday families of generational wealth compounding. I sat at my kitchen table last Tuesday and opened my brokerage account on one browser tab and our family budget spreadsheet on the other. David…
4 MIN READA newsletter that can call the investor who sold at the bottom a “fool” and then, in the next paragraph, tell you that the same instinct that helped your ancestors survive a lion attack is why you should buy SpaceX at the IPO—that…
8 MIN READThe thing draining the aspiring middle-class budget isn’t a thicket of building codes or a shortage of school vouchers. It’s a financial architecture that skims a profit margin from every bedrock need—and it’s that extraction, not some…
4 MIN READYou trade the gray whale’s vertebra for the container schedule. Seven breaths rise in the mist off Alcatraz. Seven of them end in broken bone somewhere in the bay. On the Angel Island sand, three giant vertebrae lie in a row to mark the…
4 MIN READXi Jinping is funding the slaughter of Ukrainian civilians. On Monday, he landed in Pyongyang to clasp the hand of a nuclear-armed dictator who has been shipping artillery shells and ballistic missiles to Russia for use against Ukrainian…
4 MIN READThe 99% on-time delivery rate doesn’t mean the system works; it just means the routing algorithm finally stopped leaving the efficiency dividend with the people who actually drive the route. PepsiCo is running thirty-five driverless trucks…
3 MIN READOne of the oldest listed companies in Britain just agreed to be swallowed by a bigger American rival, and two things happen before anyone opens a spreadsheet: someone decides how many local communities they no longer need to feed, and…
4 MIN READTreasury ministers are starving working families to balance a spreadsheet they don't understand. The ledger does not care about the minister’s theory. The ledger only cares that a hospitality venue in Manchester is paying twenty percent…
4 MIN READIt is true, and the press release is at pains to emphasize it, that the Swiss firm's agreement with Nurix Therapeutics is structured to share the development burden: an upfront payment of $700 million, with forty per cent of the remaining…
5 MIN READAsian markets aren't dipping; they're hemorrhaging. South Korea's KOSPI fell by almost 9 percent at one point, forcing a trading suspension. Japan's Nikkei surrendered 3 percent in a single session. The S&P 500 dropped 2.64 percent on…
5 MIN READThe Federal Reserve is killing rural credit to manage a war economy. A currency desk in Singapore or an investment bank in Chicago can watch the dollar rally against the Malaysian ringgit and see a tidy macroeconomic adjustment. The dollar…
6 MIN READIt is true, in the narrow sense in which business journalism usually means it, that the ranking is a serious effort: thirty metrics from twenty data providers, six dimensions—AI readiness, innovation, talent, financial fitness,…
4 MIN READThe library that was to hold whiskey is empty. The home theater that was to be for watching things on a screen is empty. The micro-distillery that was to teach young Americans the craft of spirits is empty. Raj Bhakta is giving the campus…
4 MIN READThe rain was falling on the barn roof in Wisconsin, very heavy rain, the best rain for a barn interview actually, it added to the atmosphere, tremendous atmosphere. NBC wanted it, failing NBC, they begged for it, so I gave it to them, a…
9 MIN READThe British government is letting organised crime launder £1 billion a year through High Street shops. Its answer is £10 million a year in new spending. That is a 100-to-1 mismatch—and it comes after two decades of deliberate cuts to the…
4 MIN READThe Wall Street Journal editorial board celebrated the hunger of four million Americans this week, and called it a win for the country. In “The Food Stamp Rolls Decline—Hurray,” the editors applaud the fact that the Supplemental Nutrition…
4 MIN READThe paper has risen 19 percent in nine weeks, and the men who trade it will call that number a vindication. It is, rather, the exact arithmetic of a community hollowed out from the inside. The Wall Street Journal reports this week that…
5 MIN READIn Tonganoxie, residents raise signs against the data center that will turn their town into a cooling tower. In Indianapolis, a councilor wakes to gunshots and a note against server farms. In Texas, a twenty-year-old heads to the house of…
5 MIN READThe bodycam footage is what does it. An eighteen-year-old boy lies dying on a Southampton pavement, his hands cuffed behind his back, while the man who has just fatally stabbed him tells the officers he is the victim of a racist attack.…
4 MIN READAaron Spencer executed a man on the highway and the courts freed him. A thirteen-year-old girl was violated, and the men who wore the badges and carried the gavels failed her. They released her abuser on a fifty-thousand-dollar bond while…
4 MIN READA farmer in southwestern Virginia wrote recently about cutting firewood with a stranger, and how that afternoon made the political divide feel less like an unbridgeable chasm and more like the product of decades of bipartisan decisions. I…
7 MIN READVladimir Putin is weaponizing hunger to strangle Armenia’s sovereignty. Armenia went to the polls Sunday and delivered a verdict the Kremlin has been dreading. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stands for a new course — one that pulls his…
9 MIN READFor assaulting police officers. For breaking the barrier. For swinging the flagpole. For the chemical spray. For the crushed body armor. For the shattered bones. The president of the United States went on national television Sunday and,…
6 MIN READThe Wall Street Journal has published a piece asking four older parents what it is like to have kids in America after 40, and the piece is a 2,500-word confession that the publication’s own editorial-page apparatus has spent forty years…
9 MIN READMoraff, Fan, and Katz did not stumble on a candidate. They selected him. They showed up at his house before dawn because the machine runs on a simple formula: find a combat veteran with a compelling biography, package him as an authentic…
6 MIN READYou are sixteen years old. You want to feel the wind. The world is expensive. The streets are paved for heavy cars. The machines sold in dealerships cost more than a used sedan. So you find a lightweight electric bike. You twist the…
8 MIN READTexas is executing Taylor Parker for kidnapping a fetus it legally declared alive. The United States Supreme Court has now refused to hear her appeal. That is the procedural bookend—the moment the system tells you the doors are closing.…
4 MIN READThey are saying terrible things about the ballroom — the FAKE NEWS is complaining, very failing, the most failing, saying it’s too big, saying four times the size of the house is unreasonable, but the truth is the house was too small, and…
9 MIN READCalifornia institutions exalted Junipero Serra while displacing Mildred Howard from Berkeley. In a West Oakland warehouse, Howard keeps a ten-foot statue of the Spanish missionary bound and blindfolded, the colonizer-saint mummified in the…
4 MIN READIt is true that the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, PEPFAR, remains the most effective large-scale public-health intervention any government has ever fielded—a program that saved roughly 26 million lives since George W. Bush…
6 MIN READDonald, you trade the hundred children at Minab for the marble on your tongue. The red pins on your desk do not bleed. The map is quiet while the basement fills with pulverized brick. You say you are a little bit perturbed. You move the…
6 MIN READMarian L. Tupy’s moral case for Jeff Bezos’s fortune, in National Review, mistakes the cold efficiency of a spreadsheet for the warm health of a community — and calls that mistake conservatism. In “A Moral Case for Jeff Bezos’s Wealth”,…
7 MIN READAllysia Finley, editorial-board member at the Wall Street Journal, published a piece on June 7 that assembles a handful of scattered California local ballot-measure defeats into a single narrative of a taxpayer rebellion against government…
3 MIN READThe autopsies are piling up. The DNC’s self-appointed doctors spent months fighting over who gets the blame, delaying a report that then arrived hollow—no mention of the president’s age, no reckoning with Gaza, and an absolute silence on…
7 MIN READMayor J. William Reynolds, the elected leader of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, is furious that a single police officer left his department to be on a reality television show. The arithmetic of his fury is the only thing that matters. Officer…
4 MIN READGraham, the chest tattoo is covered now. The internet screenshots of your Reddit posts are not. You told women to take responsibility for not getting so drunk they would have sex with someone they did not mean to. You cover the ink. You do…
9 MIN READThis week a Louisiana parish published a weekly bulletin that placed a convicted sexual predator’s name in the “intentions” column — Anthony Odiong, sentenced on June 2 to life in prison for exploiting his clerical authority to sexually…
4 MIN READDonald Trump pardons Stephen Buyer, and the machinery of chokepoint capitalism gets an explicit federal seal. It is true that the Constitution confers a plenary pardon power, and it is true that Stephen Buyer is a decorated Gulf War…
5 MIN READEight people were shot at the Old West End Festival in Toledo on a Saturday in June. All eight are expected to survive. The police are searching for one or more suspects. The festival was scheduled to continue. The architecture did not.…
4 MIN READFord and BlackRock are starving the public pipeline to grow their own cheap labor. Jim Farley complains about a 5,000-mechanic shortage at dealerships delaying repairs while the BlackRock Foundation drops $100 million in Texas to train…
4 MIN READIsrael is murdering Lebanese army officers to scuttle the ceasefire it just agreed to. The airstrike that killed a brigadier general, a captain, and another soldier on a road near Nabatiyeh on Saturday was not an accident, not a tragic…
6 MIN READPeople are talking, the best people, very smart people, they’re calling me day and night about this beautiful pardon, the full, unconditional pardon for Stephen Buyer, a tremendous guy, a judge advocate general in the Army, very…
8 MIN READThe Trump administration and GEO Group are running a for-profit torture facility at Delaney Hall. Elder Guerra, a Guatemalan immigrant who has lived in the United States for eight years, was taking a shower inside that facility in mid-May…
6 MIN READThe party establishment treats human suffering as a branding deficit instead of a moral failure. The machinery of modern politics asks the people to wait while consultants draft an autopsy, then asks them to wait again when the report…
3 MIN READThe bulletin was dated for the week ending June 7. On page two, under the heading "Intentions of the Holy Mass," the name Anthony Odiong appeared in black ink on glossy paper. The list was neat as a grocery list. The women he assaulted did…
5 MIN READThe men who signed the ceasefire crossed it out in iron. The ink was barely dry on the June 4 ceasefire paper in Washington. You signed your name and called it a truce. One hour later you called the drone operator and called it a review.…
8 MIN READSenator Jim Justice is looting a historic Appalachian resort for cash. The documentary record of federal lawsuits, state tax liens, and default notices shows exactly what the senator denies: the Greenbrier is not a thriving crown jewel of…
5 MIN READA teacher's aide in Darke County, Ohio, watches her gas prices climb past four dollars a gallon and calls it a righteous exchange. A multi-generational farmer in Mercer County takes a several-thousand-dollar loss when the president rattles…
9 MIN READTrump is committing war crimes in the Persian Gulf and calling it a blockade. On Friday, U.S. forces shot down four Iranian drones headed for the Strait, then struck coastal radar sites; Iran answered with seven ballistic missiles. That…
7 MIN READThe United States Justice Department is seizing Mexico’s sovereignty by indictment. It is using the federal criminal code to bypass the extradition treaty, sideline the State Department, and override Mexican constitutional law, installing…
3 MIN READThe fake news is saying I’m stuck, that I’m in a terrible pickle, that the Iran deal is stalled because they’re asking for cash—CASH, very unfair, they want $12 billion up front and more later, from their own money that’s frozen, which I…
3 MIN READAutomakers are trapping families in old cars and charging them for the privilege. The average vehicle on American roads is now thirteen years old, a historic high—a ten percent jump from a decade ago. That national figure flattens huge…
5 MIN READThe transnational brokerage network that keeps Putin's war-gods airborne in Western-built Bombardiers and Gulfstreams is not a loophole. It is the system functioning precisely as designed. European aircraft managers acquire secondhand jets…
4 MIN READThe Wall Street Journal editorial board has just catalogued, with evident dismay, the equity stakes, golden shares, and revenue‑sharing demands its own party has already imposed on the AI industry. Now, in “The Road to AI State Socialism,”…
6 MIN READThey bought the mill that fed your town with borrowed money, billed the workers for the severance, and called it an act of optimism. In Freedom Is Worth the Risk, published by National Review on June 5, 2026, David L. Bahnsen argues that…
4 MIN READThe man who just got handed New York City's consumer protection department is Samuel Levine, the lawyer who spent the last four years getting billions back from companies that rip people off, and his first complaint about New Yorkers is a…
3 MIN READThe freedom to externalize your costs onto other people is not the kind of freedom that preserves human dignity — it’s the kind that purchases investor optimism on someone else’s tab. In “Freedom Is Worth the Risk”, published by National…
4 MIN READThe Trump administration is not responding to a murder. It is running a recruitment operation, and a dead British student is the enlistment poster. On Thursday, the official account of the United States Department of State posted a message…
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