The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
- Oscar Wilde

- Assessing Trump's Diplomatic Juggling Act. Plus, How Anti-Semites Hijacked a Top Scholarly Journal. April 19, 2025The art of the deal: Most presidents, the Hudson Institute's Mike Watson writes, "implement only a handful of initiatives at a time that usually only become public knowledge once they have matured." Not Trump. "I never get too attached to one deal or one approach," he wrote in Art of the Deal. "I keep a […]
- A Top Architectural Journal Planned To Center Its Latest Issue on Israeli 'Settler-Colonial Apartheid and Genocide.' When Its Publisher Said No, the Whole Board Resigned. April 19, 2025The Journal of Architectural Education (JAE), the field's premier scholarly journal, has dedicated past issues to topics like the "various nuances through which water and design mix" and the "relationship between stories and architecture." Last year, the journal landed on a different topic for its fall 2025 issue: The "ongoing Israeli genocidal campaign against Palestinians […]
- Trump’s Art of the Diplomatic Deal April 19, 2025In the three months since Donald Trump took the oath of office, he has launched one of the boldest revisions to U.S. foreign policy in this nation’s history. The flurry of new initiatives and surprising announcements has overwhelmed much of the commentariat’s ability to rationally analyze his presidency, but his goals for his second term […]
- Endorsing Kamala Harris Paid Off for LeBron James. Plus, Trump Admin Teases 'Human Shield' Sanctions on Hamas. April 18, 2025A gift for the King: NBA star LeBron James posted a 75-second video to his X and Instagram accounts last October that portrayed Donald Trump as a Hitler-loving racist and offered James's endorsement of Kamala Harris. He said at the time he made the decision organically based on his "family and how they will grow […]
- Exclusive: We Got Joe Biden’s List of Absurd Demands for Speaking Gigs April 18, 2025Joe Biden, 82, is still eligible to run for president again in 2028, and hasn't ruled anything out. The frail geezer shuffled gingerly back into the national spotlight this week, giving the keynote address at a convention of disability rights advocates in Chicago. The post Exclusive: We Got Joe Biden’s List of Absurd Demands for […]