The Privacy Settings Keep Getting Smarter Than the Users
A tech company has discovered the timeless business model of calling a subscription “personalization” until the bill and the data policy start sounding like the same document. Lee Keybum on the cheerful corporate habit of translating user privacy into a menu you didn’t realize had a lock on it.
When the Judges Start Flinching
When former judges are the ones asking to reopen a case, you know the alarm is coming from inside the courthouse, not from the…
Epstein Files: Still a Fog Machine
Phil McCracken here, and the first rule of Washington is simple: when powerful people promise “full disclosure,” reach for your wallet and your reading…
The Bill Still Finds Your Kitchen Table
Holden McGroin here, and I’m starting to suspect “special access” is just a luxury label slapped on the same old bill. The insiders call…
King of Debt
The federal debt has become one of those American files that gets passed around the room until somebody slaps a crown on it and…
The Rule That Won’t Stay Put
Harlan Quill says judicial estoppel is the sort of rule built by people who are tired of hearing the same witness change coats in…
Who Owns the Peace Board?
In Washington, nothing says “trust us” quite like a grand civic title wrapped around a money pipeline and a fog machine. If the Board…
Markets Don’t Care About the Yard Sign
The market didn’t suddenly become a voting booth with a tie clip. It’s just the same old campaign superstition: if the numbers go up…
Whatever Happened to the Updates?
I love a campaign promise as much as the next exhausted taxpayer, but this is getting into customer-service fraud with a flag pin on…
Follow the Money, Freeze the Money
In this country, if a fund is sold as anti-weaponization but starts looking like a smoke cloud over the county fair, a judge ought…
Which Party’s the Frugal One Now?
Every election season, somebody puts on the granite-faced budget blazer and starts preaching about discipline like the federal ledger is a church bingo card.…