Pearls of Mystery

Most of us already hate capitalism (and its ideological cousin, liberalism*), in one form or another.
*That is, "liberal" in the everywhere-but-American sense
The easiest example I can come up with would be slavery in the American South, which was thoroughly capitalist from its inception. An easy post-slavery example we could talk about is King Leopold's Belgian Congo. Despite that Leopold was, well, a king...

On Twitter, the distillation of bad political commentary is the notorious Hot Take*. The general inclination is to blame an excess of Takes for the perpetually dumb, rotten state of political commentary.
*Hot Take (pr. n.) -- a short, timely opinion that's controversial and inflammatory, but never in any way that matters...

Hillary Clinton is not nearly practical enough. I say this not because I'm trying to be a contrarian but for the simple and demonstrable reason that Clinton has repeatedly made catastrophic decisions for the United States. After all, this is the only...

Update: This isn't a real journalism outlet so, based on feedback from an anonymous reviewer, I'm editing this for clarity for tone, voice, subject matter, central argument, supporting evidence, and breadth and, also, now it's like 3 times as long. Just...