When Your Password Manager Locks You Out
Dashlane’s security incident has the funniest possible side effect: the first person treated like a threat is the customer who paid for protection. Premium digital safety, apparently, comes with a velvet rope and a very nervous bouncer.
Intel Gets a Little Too Much Patriotism for the Math
I’ve seen church bake sales with less obvious accounting than this. Intel gets wrapped in national-strategy language, the market gets a little thrill, and…
Cloud, Cash, and the Confidence Game
Washington loves to call it “separate” when the paperwork is spread across three desks and one of them is already looking guilty. But ordinary…
When Access Has a Price Tag
In Washington, “business access” is what people call it when influence wants to wear a blazer and pretend it’s an errand. The rest of…
Gulf O’ Merica and the Great Naming Stunt
Hugh Jass here, filing this under civic branding that wants to be taken seriously while contributing absolutely nothing to the ledger. “Gulf O’ Merica”…
When the White House Becomes a Pay-Per-View
When politics gets dressed up like a wrestling card, the first thing it drops is responsibility. The chest-puffing, the fireworks, the arena grin —…
Trump’s Medical Ledger and the Country’s Worst Hobby
Harlan Quill has seen a lot of civic nonsense, but this one has the smell of a waiting room turned into a polling place.…
Mail-In Panic, Mail-In Problem
A simple ballot printing mistake got promoted into a national voter-fraud haunted house, because panic always wants a bigger stage than the facts deserve.
House of Representin’: The Stalling Industrial Complex
The House has perfected a special kind of modern democracy: announce yourself as “the people’s chamber,” then spend the workday acting like legislation is…
Trump’s 1.5-Page Victory Lap
Trump has a gift for declaring the ceremony finished before the substance has been dragged across the finish line. In Washington, that’s called a…
Doge’s Chainsaw Budget Church
When a billionaire mascot shows up with a chainsaw and calls it governance, the first question is not how bold he looks. It’s who…
Safety by Vibes
Mike Rotch here, and the first lie in “safe under Trump” is that volume counts as evidence. It doesn’t. If your whole safety pitch…
The Price Pivot
The joke is the pivot: sell Americans on cheaper groceries, then grin like the markup was the master plan all along. That’s not an…
Theodore Roosevelt and the Printer’s Ink Problem
If a quote sounds hard enough for the shop wall, some folks will stop asking whether Teddy actually said it and start polishing the…
The $186 Billion Shrug
Washington keeps calling taxpayer leaks a paperwork problem, which is a cute way to describe a machine that can misplace a stadium full of money and then ask for a better spreadsheet.
America’s Worst Sequel
Washington has turned into the kind of sequel nobody asked for: louder trailer, worse plot, same cast, and somehow a bigger bill at the…
Trump’s Tariff War Gets a Bad Review
Phil McCracken here, and Trump’s tariff war is the rare patriotic theater production where the audience gets charged twice: once at the door, and…