I’m a big fan of historical cycles; they help give a contour to the human experience. In a manner, they’re like seasons: never definitive, yet very real, experiences that we can use to both literally and metaphorically sow and harvest our crops. And if history is like seasons, we’re in…

Judge Amy Comey Barrett will almost assuredly be confirmed, replacing the Supreme Court’s most liberal justice Ruth Beta Ginsburg with someone who could well be one of its most conservative. For many, there are justifiable worries that Barrett will create a 5–4 conservative majority able to finally overcome those moments…

Almost assuredly, they’ll have to pivot to something. But will it stay loyal to Trump? — On November 4, 2020, Fox News might have to reckon with a (possibly massive) Trump defeat. Will that be the day that the chickens come home to roost, Sean Hannity apologizes (or is fired), and Fox News, shorn of its presidential champion and harried by the liabilities of his defeat…

Today, Fort Grant, Arizona, is a men’s state prison. But underneath the visitor’s parking, local legends hold that a paved-over hatch hides a depraved military secret — a hidden era of Arizona’s brief flirtation with the Nazi occult. The ‘Kids’ Lab’, as it is often called by prison staff, supposedly…

Originally published at RogueGeopolitics.com On April 30, CIDRAP published a handy, broad-based scenario guide for what the rest of 2020’s pandemic might look. …

Let’s take a look at some positive and negative qualities of Biden and Trump, and then do an examination below as to which is the stronger of the two — Rightly or wrongly, Americans don’t trust the polling numbers for 2020 this far out. Maps like those below from RealClearPolitics simply make it ever harder to figure out who is ahead and who might stay that way as November 2020 comes barreling our way.

What a time to be alive. The libertarian right is suddenly rediscovering their balls after years of watching the GOP’s steady entrenchment of presidential power under Trump. And their memes are here to tell you — tyranny is upon us! Perhaps you’ve seen some of these floating around your social…

In Arizona’s modern history, the rich often become richer. With wealth comes vanity, and vanity creates its own dark energy. For such folks, the wonders of modern medicine have stayed the hand of wrinkles and sagging. …

To see the DC pundit Twitter, it appears doomsday is upon the Democratic Party — and American democracy itself. Bernie Sanders (that socialist!) has now taken the front runner position, and now his inevitability is creeping up in the data analytics of professional pollsters.