Bear Smith

Crossing the Rubicon

Disappearing students. Jailed residents. Defied courts. The crisis is now.

The ideological shift at the core of the dumbest week in American history

Lessons from Wisconsin and Florida, and a warning of why it's not enough

An accounting of the hubris, hypocrisy, and media spin that has compromised our national security.

When heterodox thinkers embrace a new orthodoxy, who is left to do the hard work?

What happens to a company, a party, a country in crisis?

"Malicious compliance" is an attempt to excuse bad policy

Is it the two crazed men trying to consolidate power overnight, or the bipartisan slate of respected jurists standing in their way?

How a wannabe king plays with world leaders and your attention to look strong at all costs