GLOBAL & POLITICS, COMPANION PIECE
America's Integration Gap
The stated target is illegal immigration. The scale, the spillover into legal populations, and Americans' own genuinely split opinion data complicate that further.
Knowledge Without Limits: Human Curated | AI Enhanced
AI & POLITICS
Political Alignment of Major AI Executives
Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Dario Amodei, Mark Zuckerberg, Demis Hassabis, and Mustafa Suleyman: their donations, their regulation stances, and the exact dates each went public.
MEDIA & THE PRESS
Why Newsrooms Lean Left: Four Decades of Evidence
Self-selection, a collapsed local-news pipeline, a business model that rewards outrage, and a 2020 rejection of objectivity itself. Four forces, independently documented, all pointing the…
GLOBAL OIL, PART 2
One World Price: Why the Strait of Hormuz Moves Your Gas Bill
The US barely imports Gulf oil, and its gas prices move with the Gulf anyway. Here's the mechanism, not just the fact.
GLOBAL OIL, PART 1
Crude Arithmetic: Who Produces the World's Oil vs. Who Owns It
The country that pumps the most oil and the country that holds the most of it are almost mirror images of each other.
Government / Politics
Kamala says
Few American politicians have generated such a dedicated cottage industry of meme-makers, late-night comedians, and political opposition researchers as Kamala Harris. As U.S. Senator from…
Government / Politics
Polling and Real Outcomes
Research the concepts of polling, discuss purposes, methods advantages and disadvantages. Discuss how biasing, audience, location and how you ask the question in a poll…
Science / Physics
The Global Cycle
Earth breathes on a timescale that dwarfs human history. Every hundred thousand years or so, the planet exhales — and the cold returns. Glaciers a…
World History
Photo Essay: Teotihuacan Pyramid
How Tall Is The Pyramid Of The Sun In Teotihuacan — Source: Before the tourists arrive, before the ve…
Government / Politics
US Social Security System
For nearly nine decades, Social Security has stood as the most consequential social contract in American history — a promise made between generations that the…
Government / Politics
BRICS Group
At the opening of the 18th BRICS Leaders' Summit in New Delhi on September 12, 2026, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood before heads of state…
Government / Politics
Comparison of Name Change: Bidden vs Trump
The power to name — and rename — is one of the quieter but more revealing dimensions of presidential authority. From mountain peaks to military…