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The Rorschach test of Lolita Applies
He married his partner's adopted daughter. He was accused of sexually abusing his seven-year-old daughter. Yet Woody Allen continued...
Kelly Watt
Apr 94 min read


Conspiracy Thinking Myopia as a Cope
Rebecca Brown’s book He Came to Set the Captives Free is a self-proclaimed exposé that describes her experiences working with victims...
Kelly Watt
Apr 85 min read


The Fiction of Stargate
In a dim room in Fort Meade, Maryland, sometime in the late 1980s, a man known only as “Viewer 001” sat still, a pencil in hand, his eyes...
Kelly Watt
Apr 86 min read


The Cage for What it is. The Rage is Justified.
“I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more, if only they knew they were slaves.” Harriet Tubman spoke not just of...
Kelly Watt
Apr 74 min read


Belief as a Whole
When we no longer split—when the person we are in the daylight matches the one who wakes up at 3 a.m. and remembers the things we didn’t...
Kelly Watt
Apr 65 min read


A Dividing Line between Genuine Care and Conditional Support
Belief is often treated as the turning point in a survivor’s story—the moment someone finally listens, nods, and says, “I believe you.”...
Kelly Watt
Apr 65 min read


Never Again (Terms and Conditions Apply)
They used to say “Never Again” like a prayer. Like it was sacred, like it was welded to the bones of civilization. The phrase sat on...
Kelly Watt
Apr 55 min read


The Bean That Betrayed Them
How Trump Tariffed the Heartland to Death By Kelly Watt There was a time not so long ago when a bean saved the American heartland. It...
Kelly Watt
Apr 45 min read


The Crypto of Influence: Branding, Bile, the Spectacle of American Collapse and Sounds of Silence
There is a silence in America that speaks louder than its shouts. It is not the silence of peace, but the stillness after...
Kelly Watt
Apr 46 min read


GOLD, GOLD, GOLD
The Gilded Collapse of a Hollow King Gold, gold, gold. So much gold it blinds the poor before it feeds them. So much gold it rattles in...
Kelly Watt
Apr 42 min read


The Bill Always Come Due
This chaos wasn’t an accident. It wasn’t some bureaucratic oversight, a misunderstood memo, or a tragic misfire of democracy. It wasn’t...
Kelly Watt
Apr 36 min read


Consider Me Woke
I saw it coming with Bush—though I couldn’t have told you exactly what I was seeing. Just that it felt familiar. Not because I understood...
Kelly Watt
Apr 37 min read


Anointed by the Algorithm: Karoline Leavitt and the Rise of Digital Theocracy
The Rosary and the Flag: Karoline Leavitt and the Rise of Spiritual Authoritarianism In the shadow of the Capitol dome, a new kind of...
Kelly Watt
Apr 24 min read


Predator and Poet
Would it surprise you to know that Woody Allen and Jeffrey Epstein were friends? It shouldn’t. Not if you’ve ever watched Manhattan and...
Kelly Watt
Apr 23 min read


Unseeing Woody Allen: A Daughter's Cry in the Glass Jar
Dylan Farrow could not unsee what happened to her. The attic light fell like a judgment. She, a child of seven, pressed into corners...
Kelly Watt
Apr 16 min read


The Tangled Truth: How Woody Allen’s Parental Alienation Defense Shaped a Legacy
In 1992, a bitter personal and legal battle erupted that would forever change how many people viewed allegations of abuse and the...
Kelly Watt
Apr 19 min read


How Democrats’ Half-Measures Perpetuate the System
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) stands as one of the most glaring examples of how Democrats, even with a majority in Congress, compromised...
Kelly Watt
Apr 16 min read


One Page at a Time Rhythm Is Not Random
She was born in 1970, a latchkey kid in the most literal sense—a key on a string, a silence waiting behind the door. She shared space...
Kelly Watt
Mar 304 min read


The Baby He Always Was
Nabokov’s prose is richly layered and ornamental, but never sloppy. Think of baroque architecture: ornate, complex, but exquisitely...
Kelly Watt
Mar 303 min read


Liquid Nostalgia and the Myth of Grit
Just as the LeSabre cruised suburban streets as a symbol of mid-century stability—big, bland, and built to reassure—Bud Light has become...
Kelly Watt
Mar 304 min read
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