The Lost Founder

James Wilson and the Forgotten Fight for a People's Constitution James Wilson stands as a haunting paradox in the American narrative: he was an architect of the nation’s foundation, yet his name remains largely absent from the common litany of the Founding Fathers. A brilliant legal mind

How the Democrats Screwed Bernie

This is the inside story of how the Democratic establishment broke the rules to kill the Bernie Sanders insurgency in 2016. It is a raw, firsthand account from the man who was in the room when the Clinton Machine decided the people did not get a say. After the 2016

Shadow Strike

A Pike Logan Novel The stakes have never been higher for Pike Logan. In the wake of a devastating Middle Eastern conflict, a rogue faction of Iranian officials finds itself cornered. With their proxy forces shattered and their offensive capabilities crushed, they concoct a desperate, terrifying plan to upend the

The Love Producer

My Unscripted Journey from a Reality TV Career to My Own Happily Ever After Look, let's take a collective step back for a second. We’ve all sat on the couch, maybe with a glass of bourbon or a cheap beer, watching reality TV and subconsciously letting it

The Ladder Is a Lie

Why You Need to Stop Being a "Tryhard" You’ve been sold a bill of goods. You know it, I know it, and if you’re honest with yourself, you’ve known it for a long time. You’ve got the title, the corner office, the steady paycheck,

The Greatest Legal Heist in American History

How One Fraudulent Sentence Stole Your Future The math of modern American life doesn’t add up. You look at the bank statement, you look at the grocery bill, and then you look at your father’s old W-2s—the ones he kept in a rusted biscuit tin in

One stolen truck. Four weapons. And a conspiracy hidden entirely inside his own mind.

On the eve of January 6, 2021, the eyes of the world were fixed on the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. Yet thousands of miles away, in Olympia, Washington, a parallel and deeply chilling drama was unfolding in the shadows. Michael Dodd sat in a stolen vehicle on

The Judicial Wrecking Crew:

How the Supreme Court Abandoned the Rule of Law for Partisan Power For the better part of a decade, the Supreme Court has operated less like a bench of impartial jurists and more like an ideological wrecking crew. We aren’t talking about the usual conservative-liberal tug-of-war.

New July Nonfiction

July 7 * Babylon: The Biography of a Metropolis, Lloyd Llewelyn-Jones, Pegasus * Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life, Ian Bogost, Atria * Tin Can Coast: A History of Industry, Greed, and Fishing in the Golden State, Joseph Ogilvy, Bloomsbury * How the Democrats Screwed Bernie, Tad Devine, S&

How Fascist Dictators Actually Died: Crushing the Myth of Absolute Power

The thing nobody tells you about the twentieth-century dictator is that their entire existence is a gamble on the concept of permanence, and they almost always lose the bet in the most embarrassing way possible. If you build a political brand around the idea that you are a living

On Courage

How to be a Dissident in an Age of Fear The world is feeling heavier, and more restrictive as the headlines paint a grim picture of free speech under siege and democratic norms dismantled piece by piece. Today, we watch a predictable playbook play out in real time across the

Cancel Me If You Can

Some people spend their entire lives trying to minimize risk, building comfortable walls out of predictability and safe choices, but Dave Portnoy has always chosen a completely different path. He is, at his absolute core, a gambler who fundamentally understands that the only way to win big in this world

Dead But Dreaming

Of Electric Sheep The literary landscape is currently crowded with technocratic ghost stories, the sort of sanitized, high-gloss fiction that treats the digital revolution like a seamless upgrade to the human condition. Most of it is beige. Most of it forgets that beneath the motherboard, there is still te

Kill Your Darlings

Peter Swanson knows exactly how to build a trap. If you read The Kind Worth Killing or Eight Perfect Murders, you already know he does not write comfortable stories about nice people doing normal things. He writes about the quiet, terrifying corners of human relationships. His latest psychological thriller takes

The Day After

Discover the ultimate playbook to save American democracy from the number one New York Times bestselling author of Shameless, Brian Tyler Cohen. This book is an urgent progressive wake up call that exposes how Republicans abused power and how Democrats failed to use it. Instead of just restoring the old

Land of a Thousand Sessions

The Complete Muscle Shoals Story 1951-1985 In the red clay hills of northwest Alabama, where the Tennessee River snakes through the scrub like a dark, heavy vein, a sound was born that defied all reason. It didn’t come from the neon canyons of Nashville, the polished towers of

Empire of AI

Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI The talk surrounding artificial intelligence has long been dominated by two extremes: promises of a frictionless future and alarmist warnings about impending doom. Both approaches prove distracting, and both are fundamentally shallow. The true story of AI is not found in

Everybody Loses

The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling Look around you today and you will see a world that has completely shifted under our feet. Every commercial break, every pregame show, and every scroll through social media is now plastered with point spreads, prop bets, and oversized bonus offers. It feels

Been There, Done That

How Our History Shows What We Can Overcome They say the past is a foreign country, but that’s a lie. It’s just this place, only dirtier and meaner, populated by the same kind of folks who inhabit our current, agitated air. We like to tell ourselves fairy tales

How Books Can Save Democracy

There was a time, maybe you remember it, when the local bookstore wasn’t just a place to pick up a thriller for the weekend. It was the living room of the community. You’d walk in, the dust motes dancing in the afternoon light, and find somebody—a neighbor,

Why Arguing About Politics Isn't Working Anymore

American politics has become a polished, high-speed engine for deception. It’s a closed loop, humming along in the dark, built on the singular, cold-blooded premise that if you can keep a man angry enough and fearful enough, he won’t look too closely at who’s actually

Slasher Summer

by E.L. Chen, published by Grand Central Publishing Listen here, friend. Pull up a chair and let me tell you about a place called Cedar Lake. It’s a quiet little town, the kind wrapped in heavy Southern humidity and buried deep enough in the pines that the world

An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic

The Blues Brothers Written by Daniel de Visé, published by Atlantic Monthly Press. On June 20, 1980, a pair of men in cheap black suits and sunglasses claimed they were on a mission from God. Their target was a Chicago orphanage; their real objective was to drag the fading legends

In the Hour of Chaos

Art & Activism with Public Enemy's Chuck D written by Chuck D, published by University of California Press If you have spent any time listening to the low end rumble of a Public Enemy record, you know that Chuck D never was much for small talk. He spoke

Every Day is Sunday

How Jerry Jones, Robert Kraft, and Roger Goodell turned the NFL into a Cultural and Economic Juggernaut book by Ken Belson, published by Grand Central Publishing On Super Bowl Sunday in February 2024, the field in Las Vegas wasn't just a patch of turf. It was the absolute,