Make America Healthy Again? Not With This Self-Inflicted Wound

The Department of Education’s new rule narrowing which graduate programs qualify as “professional degrees” is not a technical update. It is a targeted attack on the sectors that keep Americans alive, educated, and functioning. Starting July 1, 2026, entire fields dominated by women will lose access to the federal loan limits required to earn the … Read more

The 3.5% Rule Won’t Save Us (But Here’s What Might)

Every so often, the “3.5% rule” makes the rounds on social media, usually shared with the optimism of a life hack for democracy. The claim: when just 3.5% of a population engages in sustained, nonviolent resistance, authoritarian regimes collapse. It’s comforting math. A small number. Tangible. A statistic that fits neatly into a meme. But … Read more

So the Law’s a Prop. Now What?

Every time Trump steamrolls another norm, somebody in your feed chirps, “That’s illegal! He can’t do that!”   Cute. But legality stopped mattering the moment the referees joined his team. We keep quoting statutes like they’re Harry Potter spells. Posse Comitatus! Habeas Corpus! Checks and Balances! None of it works once those in charge decide rules … Read more

The Purge of Public Health: Retaliation with a Side of Recklessness

This wasn’t a clerical error. It was a political hit job. More than 1,300 CDC employees—lab specialists, disease trackers, and epidemiologists—were abruptly fired on October 11, 2025. Days later, about half were reinstated after officials blamed a “coding error.” The story keeps changing, but the outcome doesn’t. America’s public-health defenses are being dismantled in plain … Read more