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Atlanta, GA, United States

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Past articles by Jason:

Our Federal Government is the Marvel Universe

The Hulk = Congress. Stay with us here. → Read More

Watch the Numbers: Why Democrats Are Dead Right to Move Impeachment Forward

As Gerald Ford said, "An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be." → Read More

Sign Language: How Robert O'Brien and WeWork Explain America

Real change is coming, but these institutions are nothing more than signifiers without substance. → Read More

The Hong Kong Protests, Explained

China wants Hong Kong to play along, and Hong Kong doesn't want to be anything but Hong Kong. → Read More

The Brexit Mess, Explained for Confused Americans

When you ask "what's difficult about Brexit?", we answer, "what isn't?" Here's our explainer of the chaos in London. → Read More

There Won't Be a "Next" Donald Trump. Here's Why.

Trump is a singular phenomenon, and there's nobody out there who can duplicate his appeal. → Read More

Epstein is Dead, But the Case Will Never Close

Epstein's resume reads like a pocket history of the death of the American dream. → Read More

We Have Every Reason to Yell: Centrism Lost At The Debates

What the Democratic debates really represented was the triumph of what the American public has always believed. → Read More

A Reminder: There Was No Trump Realignment, and Centrism Is Still Bad Politics

Lack of awareness is not principally a matter of ignorance; it's a matter of believing a wrong story, and believing it so hard that you stumble over the truth. → Read More

Let the Mueller Farce End

We live in the Upside Down now. Nobody in mainstream commentary understands: the norms do not exist. → Read More

What Trump's "Go Back" Insult Really Means

Uniquely disgusting, even for Trump. → Read More

The ICE Raids Are Donald Trump's Saddest, Most Transparent Failure

With his ICE raids, Trump is trying to sell what isn’t there. He’s raiding people who aren’t a threat, who haven’t really committed a crime, in cities that are against him, using a tiny agency, obeying a mandate he doesn’t have, to force an issue that doesn’t really exist. It couldn’t be any more make-believe and hollow unless he slapped “Trump” on it. The ICE raids are the story of his life.… → Read More

Ross Perot Saw It Coming

> Ross Perot… wha else is there to say? As a kid, he taught me it was okay to be weird — brian feldman (@bafeldman) July 9, 2019 H. Ross Perot is dead, and a part of Texas dies with him. To understand Perot, you must understand my beloved homeland, Texas. Frankly, only a Texan could have done what Perot did. Perot’s campaign required the fantastic, world-beating hubris of Texas. He had the… → Read More

The Media Ignored Jeff Epstein Until They Couldn't

The victims have always been speaking...but the media chose not to hear. → Read More

The Winner of the First Democratic Debate Was the Rising Seas

Fear and loathing at the first debate. → Read More

For Politicians, Raising Money Is Easy. But Spending It Smartly Requires an Actual Ideology.

Money is the fuel. It is not the fire. → Read More

Tea Party 1, Obama 0: The Most Enduring Campaigns Are About the Public, Not the Candidate

To lose the momentum of a campaign is to lose the war, even if the candidate wins. → Read More

For Democrats, Joe Biden Is the Dangerous Choice That *Feels* Safe

Joe Biden is like driving in a car to avoid a plane—much more perilous, but it *feels* safer. → Read More

Do the Rules Apply to You? A Paste Politics Primer

Well, how much power do you have? How much money? → Read More

Why Bran Stark Is Not Enough to Rescue Our Politics

There are widely-available official government documents about our wars of conquest. And like the memory of Bran Stark, our history lies there, mostly unused and untouched. → Read More