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Whither Space Force?

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On January 23, 2026
My latest column is a distillation of a conference paper that I recently gave at the Southern Political Science Association conference in New Orleans... The first and most significant question is whether the US Space Force is actually an independent military service (as we use the term to describe...
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President TACO

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On January 21, 2026
Trump chickens out: The details of any framework aside, the president’s decision to back down from steep new tariffs on European countries came days after financial markets recoiled over the prospect of a tit-for-tat trade escalation across the Atlantic. Some analysts felt that a protracted battle threatened...
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This Greenland Shit

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On January 14, 2026
Shit's still weird: Denmark, Greenland and the United States have a “fundamental disagreement” over the future of the territory in the North Atlantic, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, the Danish foreign minister, said on Wednesday after a meeting with top Trump administration officials. The meeting in Washington...

Polycrisis Hits the Fed

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On January 11, 2026

Shit hitting the fan. https://youtu.be/KckGHaBLSn4?si=MT4E9OQdy2q2MrmH The Federal Reserve received grand jury subpoenas from the Justice Department on Friday that threaten a criminal indictment relating to Chair Jerome Powell’s testimony last summer about.

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