Sabotaging Ourselves
Fifteen years of service. Gone in six hours. That’s the start of this post by my friend, David Biggs, a former Foreign Service Officer and team lead in science diplomacy…
Category: Politics
On Trump, Iran, and the Wreckage of Performative Foreign Policy
“If Trump didn’t destroy Fordow, and he didn’t eliminate their enriched uranium, and he scuttled a diplomatic agreement, and he pushed Russia and Iran closer to each other, and he…
“No Kings”: When Democracy Is Handcuffed, Resistance Must Rise
In less than a full week, two elected officials have been assaulted and detained by federal agents. This isn’t bureaucracy misfiring—it’s the script of authoritarianism, unfolding in real time. No…
It’s Already Happened Here
Like I’ve said before, I’m a systems thinker, and patterns across history, fiction, and political thought really resonate with me. Lately I’ve been working my way back through various books…
Echoes of Dissent
By now, it should be clear: Year Zero and Operation: Mindcrime didn’t invent dystopias—they echoed the ones rooted in our real past. Those echoes are echoing again in Los Angeles…