When the cop leaves the neighborhood, the fights don’t leave with him.
Should America keep the power to step into the world’s conflicts?
A: Yes, someone has to
B: No, not our job anymore
Reply A or B. 🧵
A Harvard researcher studied 500 years of rising powers challenging ruling ones and found 16 cases. Guess how many ended in war. Reply with your number.
The answer, and what it means.... From the archive: deverjonathan.substack.com/p…
Cracking down on visa abuse protects American workers. The case only holds if the numbers are airtight, so I checked every figure from the Microsoft announcement. First, a quick vote: should companies that lay off Americans be allowed to sponsor foreign hires that year? 🧵
Microsoft’s Washington layoff notices for 2025 total about 3,200. Its May 2025 round was about 6,000 worldwide. Getting that distinction right makes the case harder to knock down.
The administration can settle this with 3 records: the layoff count, the new-hire breakdown and the inspector general’s data. Which would you release first?
New on my Substack today deverdialogue.com
A man who works for my wife sat down with me this week and told me how a video game nearly took his 15-year-old daughter from him. The FBI is still hunting the men behind it. 🧵
I have my own reason for writing this. Four years ago, predators tried this move on my son, and I had no idea what I was looking at until now. Parents, tell me below: do you know who your kids are talking to tonight?
An online school can collect your tax dollars for students who don’t exist. So who should count the kids? 🧵
In Indiana, 2 online charter schools allegedly collected about $44 million for students on paper. How would you invent a student who passes as real?
The method, and the hole in the system that lets it happen, from the archive: deverjonathan.substack.com/p…


