SpaceX’s own filings reveal a private company deeply embedded in US military, intelligence and government infrastructure through satellite launches, secure communications, surveillance, sensing, targeting and long-term public contracts and programmes.

America’s 250th anniversary speech shows how old anti-communist language can return to public life, narrowing political disagreement and turning opponents into internal enemies.

A note on US state intervention in frontier AI, and why foreign businesses using American models now face political, regulatory, and infrastructure risk.

The reopening of the Strait of Hormuz does not mean the oil crisis simply disappears. It means the crisis changes shape.

Good and bad government do not remain abstract. They enter the day through prices, laws, wages, schools, hospitals, streets, bills, and the private life we think is separate.