On July 1st, 2025, the self-identified democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani overtook the well-favored Andrew Cuomo in the NYC Democratic mayoral primary, winning with 56% of the ranked-choice vote to Cuomo's 44%. Since then, further polling has suggested that he's...
With Guardsmen now stationed away from their modern haunts of Iraq and Afghanistan, they face a new operations ground: the DC metro, the Rio Grande, and Los Angeles. Many people grow squeamish or proclaim that a Rubicon has been...
Last March, I wrote a pretty scathing article criticizing President Trump's interaction with Ukrainian President Zelensky as childish and diplomatically destructive. But a lot has changed since then, and I thought I should inaugurate another year of The Roundup...
The Two Americas
In the smoky boardroom of a major American company, the executives discuss. With the recent abolition of tariffs and the new era of free global trade, now the entire manufacturing operations of their corporation can be transferred...
On April 2nd, 2025, the world witnessed something never seen before: universal tariffs on nearly every country and territory. Trump's Liberation Day plan promised an initial 10% baseline tariff on all imports, followed by "reciprocal tariffs," nation-specific, tariffs to...
As President Trump declared "liberation day" with the announcement of global minimum 10% tariffs, the stock market did a credible impression of gold-medallist Olympic diver Greg Louganis. The DOW dropped 4%. The S&P 500 fell 5%. The NASDAQ got...
I'm a writer of "hot-takes". Ideally well-researched hot-takes, but hot-takes nonetheless. That's my niche here in the beautiful ecosystem of The Roundup. But it's time for me to voice an especially unpopular opinion of mine: yes, we should be...
Since President Trump began his second administration, you have probably seen a rather viral internet meme showing Chinese president Xi Jinping as a "chad", with the title "Do nothing, win." The meme implies that China has essentially won the...
The Trump-Zelensky meeting of February 28, 2025 will go down as one of the dumbest, most infuriating, most avoidable foreign policy disasters in U.S. history. And in the aftermath of a disaster, you have to start asking questions. How...
