Foreign governments don’t need to buy U.S. politicians to shape outcomes — they just need to fund education early enough. Section 117 already shows where the money goes: chairs, curricula, language programs, and training pipelines that quietly shape who becomes “authoritative.” This isn’t espionage — it’s strategic patience, and America is the only country pretending not to see it.
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Universities don’t notice they’ve been captured because nothing feels like interference.
Foreign money doesn’t buy conclusions — it buys permanence, shaping what survives and what quietly disappears.
This is how influence becomes invisible, normalized, and untouchable.
Why Universities Don’t Even Notice They’ve Been Captured Read More »
California’s latest audit didn’t uncover a bombshell — it documented a condition. When error becomes normal and oversight becomes procedural, “high risk” stops meaning danger and starts meaning business as usual.
California’s High-Risk State Read More »
The Affordable Care Act is usually judged by what it failed to deliver. A better way to understand it is by asking why it endured anyway. Once a system reaches enough scale, failure can become the safest condition available.
Failure Is the Feature Read More »
Foreign money doesn’t buy opinions anymore—it buys permanence.
Endowed chairs and academic infrastructure quietly shape what counts as “expertise” long after donors disappear.
Section 117 doesn’t reveal corruption—it reveals the blueprint.
The Permanence Machine Read More »
Most people still think journalism begins in the newsroom. It usually doesn’t anymore. This walks through the pipeline that shapes what gets reported long before the first draft is written.
The Journalism Pipeline Nobody Sees Read More »
Minnesota’s ICE backlash and Medicaid fraud crisis aren’t separate scandals—they’re symptoms of the same governing failure. When enforcement is treated as destabilizing and oversight as optional, disorder becomes policy by default. This piece examines how narrative management replaced control—and why the bill always arrives eventually.
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New presidents don’t walk into an empty office—they walk into a system that already knows how things are done. Institutional memory and process quietly shape what’s possible long before voters notice anything is wrong. If every administration feels temporary, it’s because the system was built to be permanent.
Why Every New President Governs Like a Temp Read More »
Foreign influence in American education isn’t secret — it’s federally disclosed and quietly ignored.
Section 117 reveals a system designed to acknowledge risk without ever forcing accountability.
The Ledger They Hope You Never Read Read More »
Merrick Garland’s career makes far more sense when read straight through instead of argued about in pieces. From the D.C. Circuit to a blocked Supreme Court nomination to the Justice Department’s most politically charged moment in decades, his defining trait has been restraint.
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