Trucking is where the economy becomes physical, and right now it’s under audit. A prolonged freight downturn has collided with federal enforcement on labor, licensing, and training, squeezing an already brittle industry from every direction.
The Trucking Crackdown Read More »
The Iranian hostage crisis is often remembered as a diplomatic failure. This piece examines it as something more consequential: the moment hostage-taking became a durable instrument of revolutionary power. It explains how time itself was converted into leverage—and why that lesson never went away.
The Day the Clock Stopped Read More »
Foreign influence doesn’t need to win arguments to win power. It just needs to fund institutions long enough for their assumptions to become invisible.
How Foreign Money Became Educational Infrastructure Read More »
The Biden presidency felt unusually quiet long before the debate stage made the reason why obvious. This piece explores why governance continued smoothly despite limited visibility and what that reveals about how power actually functions in modern America. It’s less about who sat in the Oval Office than about the system that ran comfortably without friction.
Auto-Pilot: The Proxy Presidency (2021–2024) Read More »
Cracker Barrel didn’t stumble into trouble—it was marched there by a rebrand that solved nothing. Since October, weak earnings, traffic erosion, and shifting excuses have made the damage impossible to ignore. The story isn’t about modernization; it’s about what happens when management forgets who the customer actually is.
Taco Julie’s Extended Collapse Read More »
Foreign influence doesn’t need slogans or spies when it can shape what counts as “serious knowledge.” From K-12 classrooms to endowed university chairs, curriculum has quietly become infrastructure—routing beliefs before power is ever reached. This piece traces how education stopped being domestic policy and became a foreign policy platform hiding in plain sight.
Curriculum as a Foreign Policy Platform Read More »
Peru’s jumbo squid fishery once sustained thousands of coastal workers and anchored entire towns. Satellite data and investigative reporting now show how industrial fleets followed the migrating squid until the stock collapsed offshore.
How China’s Squid Fleet Broke Peru’s Pota Economy Read More »
The 1976 Entebbe raid is usually remembered as a daring rescue. This piece treats it as something more disruptive: a moment when the emerging script of modern terrorism was broken rather than accommodated. It shows that the method was never inevitable—and that choices mattered.
The Hostages Who Vanished Read More »
Migration doesn’t begin with movement—it begins when media signals that movement will be rewarded. From Cold War information operations to the southern border surge and Europe’s open-door crisis, journalism has quietly evolved from observer to infrastructure. Once narratives scale, outcomes follow, whether governments intend them or not.
The Migration of Narratives Read More »
Elections feel decisive, but the moment after the votes are counted tells a quieter story. Presidents inherit legitimacy, not control, and quickly discover a system designed to wait them out rather than obey them. If modern government feels frozen no matter who wins, there’s a reason—and it isn’t voter apathy.
Winning the Election Isn’t Winning Power Read More »
