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Politics This Week: Messaging in a Trustless World

By Justin Katz | April 12, 2025 |

John DePetro and Justin Katz review the latest in Rhode Island politics.

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Politics This Week: What They Find Interesting (And Not)

By Justin Katz | April 2, 2025 |

John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss the stories we don’t hear and should.

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Politics This Week: The Wall of Insider Silence

By Justin Katz | March 26, 2025 |

John DePetro and Justin Katz highlight topics RI’s insiders try to keep behind the scenes.

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Politics This Week: The Madness We’re Not Allowed to Handle

By Justin Katz | March 18, 2025 |

John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss the many charades insiders want RI to perpetuate

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Politics This Week: The Business of Corruption

By Justin Katz | March 11, 2025 |

John DePetro and Justin Katz trace the evidence that corruption has become the business of government.

A water drop and ripples

Jokes expose underlying truths about identity politics.

By Justin Katz | June 26, 2024 |

I’ll stipulate that comedian Sebastian Maniscalco’s story about a kindergartener who identifies as a lion is likely not true, but the exaggeration provides a useful framing, nonetheless: One of the kill-move cheats of progressives is to pose the question, of these identity politics instances, “How does it affect you?”  Appealing to Americans’ live-and-let-live sensibility, that…

A water drop and ripples

There’s one way to have better representation in Congress.

By Justin Katz | June 24, 2024 |

This is a belated acknowledgment that Ben Shapiro is exactly right about the Jerry-Springer-esque catfight in Congress last month: If we don’t like what we’re seeing in Washington, D.C., the only durable solution is to ensure it isn’t representative.  But just like the brawls on that famous gawker show, untangling ourselves from this mess is…

A water drop and ripples

This was a great moment in Jerry Seinfeld’s Duke commencement speech.

By Justin Katz | May 28, 2024 |

I do think he should have followed the line about his family correcting his joke with “thanks grandma,” but who am I to kvetch?

A water drop and ripples

Musk’s truth bomb is a flag in the cultural ground.

By Justin Katz | November 30, 2023 |

Yes, there’s a language warning.  Yes, Musk is an imperfect messenger, but when it comes to the concluding statement, his articulation of the point of this clip as it comes to its final words may prove to be an historical moment: MUSK: “The judge is the public.” SORKIN: “And you think that the public is…

A water drop and ripples

For anybody who’s found it strange that the news media isn’t making it easy to find the new January 6 videos.

By Justin Katz | November 18, 2023 |

Here they are.