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What DOGE Actually Did: Ten Months of Fake Savings and Real Damage
What looks like subtraction is often scorched ground; what looks like reform is frequently a breach of law. Ten months in, DOGE's balance sheet is legible—and the arithmetic of claims versus facts reveals a permanent contest between institutions designed to be slow and appetites designed to perform.
The Client Is the People: On Lawyers Who Mistake a President for a Republic
In the labyrinth of American law, the first wrong turn is often grammatical. Swap a singular for a plural—the President for the People—and a whole architecture shifts by degrees until courthouses feel like vestibules to a single man's will. What opens as error hardens into habit; what begins as.
They Governed, They Were Punished: The Democratic Era of Good Faith
Four Democratic presidents traded conciliation for legitimacy—compromise now for common good later. They met, instead, a political ecosystem rewarding maximal demands and procedural hardball. The result: a peculiar chronicle where bipartisanship functions as trap rather than bridge, restraint reads.