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That we're in the midst of a nonstop political crisis is hardly a secret. There are certainly villains to blame for our ever-worsening predicament, but it seems some unlikely heroes are also partly to blame. Including, dare I say, Alexander Hamilton, the man on the ten dollar bill,

I believe in my bones that failing to identify a person's bad-faith arguments is the missing ingredient in our deteriorating, endlessly confusing, and ultimately futile 21st century cultural and political discourse. Those on the left – far more prone to earnestly believe in causes and to (foolishly) assume everyone

Millions of hours of podcasts and cable news segments and countless thousands of Very Serious Thinkpieces have been dedicated to helping Americans better understand the so-called debt ceiling debate, and none of it – not one word – has been honest. One can't have an honest conversation about such a

Logging on and hurting the feelings of total strangers with invective and deeply personal insults is as natural as waking up and pouring a cup of coffee in this age of profound alienation. It's what many of us do when we plug into our various social media platforms,

Millennials, according to every think piece of the past decade, are extremely successful killers. We have killed everything from department stores to chain restaurants to shopping malls to movie theaters to the mere concept of a guest bedroom, which is funny because I had thought we already killed home buying;

I'm finding it difficult not to respect the most radicalized House Republicans these days. You don't "gotta hand it to them," but I wouldn't blame you if you did. In their ritualistic, days-long humiliation of Kevin McCarthy, the hard-right faction of the

Our horrifying machine-run future coming into focus with alarming speed, artificial intelligence mimicking human behavior, people ceding their agency to sleek little robots strapped to their bodies and crowding their homes: This is life during the final, desperate gasps of humanity as we've known it. It won'