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USAID’s “oversight reform” turned into an accountability shell game. Billions in Ukraine aid now flow through a system so streamlined even auditors can’t keep up — proof that in Washington, reform usually means relocation.
How Moving Parts Around Ukraine Shrunk the Watchdog Read More »
Bush handed Obama the smoothest transition in modern history. Obama then rebuilt government itself. What began as gratitude became grievance, and from grievance he coded a bureaucracy that no election could unplug.
The Technocratic Blueprint Read More »
How a permanent coordination hub turns hundreds of groups into one well-tuned field operation.
America Votes, Inc. Read More »
Influencer politics is the ad disclosure fight nobody saw coming. We break down how nonprofit-backed creator programs turn campaigns into “native morality plays” without telling viewers they’re sponsored. Sunlight fixes it: if it’s paid political persuasion, label it.
Under-the-Radar Ads Read More »
New York just elected a guy who thinks budgets are optional and slogans are currency. Mamdani’s campaign promises make Bernie look like Milton Friedman—rent freezes, free buses, $30 wages, all on borrowed air. The piece calls it what it is: political taqiyya—lying beautifully for power.
Mamdani’s Political Taqiyya Read More »
When USAID quietly axed more than 100 contracts with its favorite mega-contractor, Chemonics International. Behind the bureaucratic jargon of “realignment” lies a revolving-door aid empire that keeps “collapsing”…
The Chemonics Conundrum Read More »
Alvin Toffler saw it coming—a moral-political merger of crusades that would make democracy flinch. Three decades later the Radical Left and the Crescent crowd are sharing slogans and strategy decks inside the same coalition. When futurists talk about convergence, this is what they mean: theology with a turnout operation.
A leaked “demands list” from NYC’s socialist base surfaced, vanished, and left a crater where City Hall’s honeymoon should be. Turns out the revolution keeps better notes than the transition team. When you win with zealots, even deleted files have version history.
The List That Vanished Read More »
Elbridge Colby is what happens when a policy theorist gets the launch codes. The Pentagon’s new realism guru just told Congress, allies, and the bureaucracy to pick fewer fights and fight them better. Predictably, everyone’s offended—proof the doctrine’s working.
The Colby Doctrine: Pentagon Policy in a Post-Consensus World Read More »
The “multipolar world order” crowd calls it balance; the rest of us call it open-source chaos. Venezuela has turned itself into a shared Airbnb for China, Russia, and Iran—minus the cleaning fee. Confronting Caracas isn’t warmongering; it’s pest control with better lighting.
Confront Caracas to Collapse the Axis Read More »
