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Jul
09

What Project 2025 Really Is and Why It’s So Dangerous – Plus, a Blueprint for a Totalitarian Society, and the Spectrum of Collapse America Faces

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7 min read
Jul
08

How France Saved Its Democracy, Why It Matters, And What to Learn From It

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10 min read
Jul
06

Five Lessons from Britain’s Landslide

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10 min read
Jul
04

Is America Really on the Brink of Dictatorship? Plus, Autocracy vs Dictatorship, and the Slippery Slope of Social Collapse

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8 min read
Jul
04

The Worst 36 Hours For Democracy Since the 1930s, America on Dictatorship’s Brink, and Civilizational Risk

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8 min read
Jun
30

Global Political Trainwreck Open Thread

In Case You Missed It—Last Week's Articles: 1. The Omega Point, When Collapse Becomes Irreversible, Where Our
1 min read
Jun
29

That Wasn’t a Debate—That Was a Disgrace to Democracy, Plus, The Rituals and Spectacles of Social Self-Destruction, and How CNN Blew It

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9 min read
Jun
26

The Biden Trump Debate, the Scripts and Rituals of Democratic Collapse, and Why Our Public Arena is So Corroded

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8 min read
Jun
25

The Omega Point, When Collapse Becomes Irreversible, Where Our Civilization Is, and Rethinking How We Think About the Future

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9 min read
Jun
22

Are We Heading Towards a Far Right Planet? Its Economics, Politics, and Future, Plus, Vicious Cycles and Worst Case Scenarios

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8 min read