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• Your Citizens United Meme Needs a Lawyer September 8, 2026
  Author’s Note: This is one of four pieces on how American politics ran representative government through a donor pipeline and decided “independent” means the candidate can headline the fundraiser while somebody else asks for the unlimited check. We’ll cover how we got here, how the machine works, what Washington calls corruption, and what might actually […]
  Tammy Pondsmith
• Illegal Immigration Has an American Enabler September 8, 2026
  A guy came to work on my roof recently. I didn’t ask where he was born, how he came to the United States, or whether he had legal status. I didn’t ask to see immigration papers. Frankly, none of that occurred to me. I needed some work done on my roof, and he was there […]
  Dave Chamberlin
• The Navigator and the Aviator September 8, 2026
  My friend lent me a book to read. It’s called The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World, by Wade Davis (House of Anansi Press). Davis is an anthropologist who has been around the world. The book describes various isolated Indigenous cultures and what happens to many of them once they encounter Western […]
  Frank Pauc
• The Omnipotence Paradox: When the Wrong Question Has No Right Answer September 7, 2026
  Every generation inherits a handful of philosophical puzzles that refuse to die. They survive not because no one has answered them, but because they expose something fundamental about the way we think. The Ship of Theseus asks whether an object remains the same after every part has been replaced. Zeno’s paradoxes challenge our intuitions about […]
  Charles Faint
• The Measure of a Man: Ramadi, Iraq September 7, 2026
  By a Combat Veteran Ramadi, Iraq, 2011  Just relieved from shift rotation, I was finally able to lay down and get back to my daily routine of binge-watching old episodes of the Fresh Prince of Bel Air. The firebase we built was managed by a 16-man team. The closest FOB was roughly a 20-minute drive […]
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