Matt Purple

The year was 2001. George W. Bush had just defeated Al Gore in the infamous hanging-gigachad presidential election from hell. The policy differences between the candidates weren’t actually that substantial, at least compared to how they often are today; what had really distinguished the campaign was its de facto referendum on the personal character of

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When everything is collapsing, you hit the road

Washington, DC Amid the recent orgy of violence across America, it was the carjackings that finally got me. Lost amid all the mass shootings and gang slayings of late has been another wave of crime: vehicle thefts. In Washington DC, carjackings in 2021 were up by a third over 2019, while in nearby Alexandria a motorist

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The Democrats’ abortion bill is unlike anything America has ever seen

America is stuck in the past, just not in the way pro-choicers think

The end of Roe could be the beginning of a revolution in how we think