Just over a year into President Donald Trump’s first term, there had been roughly 10,000 protests nationwide during the first Trump presidency. By the same point in Trump’s second term — January 31, 2026 — there had been more than 40,000. They were, as you might expect, overwhelmingly in opposition to the Trump administration’s policies. […]

Internal Family Systems has become a wildly popular form of therapy over the past few years. Some of my friends swear by it. But after trying IFS myself and studying some of its underlying assumptions, I’m skeptical.  I shared some of the reasons for that skepticism in a recent installment of my Your Mileage May […]

Do you remember where you were when Clavicular got brutally framemogged by an ASU fraternity leader?  Or maybe you saw the clips of the 20-year-old creator — alongside Andrew Tate and white nationalist Nick Fuentes — dancing to Kanye West’s “Heil Hitler” at a Miami nightclub.  Or maybe you have no idea what any of […]

In the history section on ICE’s website, one line reads: “Despite U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s relatively young age, its functional history predates the modern birth of the agency by more than 200 years.” That phrasing of “functional history” stands out. We know that ICE was created in 2003. So what exactly do they mean […]

There’s a mess at the Department of Homeland Security right now.  The rumors that the agency’s top boss, Kristi Noem, is about to be fired won’t go away. Not to mention the various reports of DHS workers describing a “culture of fear” because of staffing upheavals throughout the department’s agencies. And on top of all […]