President Trump has ordered the Pentagon to prepare a plan for replacing the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System, better known as EMALS, with traditional steam catapults aboard the future USS Doris Miller. The same directive calls for replacing the carrier’s electromagnetic weapons elevators with hydraulic systems. Despite some of the broader headlines, Trump hasn’t ordered sailors…
America’s Institutions Are Cracking and Politics Is Still Swinging the Hammer
Some weeks in American politics feel like someone’s juggling chainsaws while riding a unicycle on a frozen lake: impressive in a terrifying way. This past stretch gave us two reminders of how wobbly our institutions have become: the Pentagon reviewing Senator Mark Kelly’s “illegal orders” video, and Georgia finally dropping its long-simmering 2020 election-interference case…
Washington’s Hobby of Breaking Its Own Rules
America’s political world lately feels like someone shook up a snow globe full of legal controversies, military disputes, and enough accusations of “sedition” to make even the Founding Fathers peek over their spectacles. First, we had Senator Mark Kelly telling U.S. troops to refuse “illegal orders,” then the Pentagon launching an investigation, and now the…
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