Tag: donald-trump

• October 5, 2026

  Karen Bass, Nithya Raman, and the Incriment of the Street: Homelessness, Measurement, and the Manufacture of Civic Confidence

  In principle, the proposition that Los Angeles voters might “finally change direction” on homelessness rests upon two assumptions that deserve interrogation before the proposition can be weighed: first, that a settled direction exists, and second, that the electorate has been the party steering. Principally, the record of the past decade contradicts both. Angelenos have voted,…
• July 22, 2026

  Knowledge and Power: Tom Cotton; And the Pursuit of Lasting Peace

  Since the conclusion of the Cold War—and notably after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001—the United States has increasingly embraced the idea that collecting more information about adversaries necessarily produces greater security. This assumption underlies the expansion of intelligence authorities such as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), one of the…