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the United States is More Isolated Than Ever Before: NATO flag flying in front of the glass façade of NATO headquarters, showing the white compass rose emblem against a deep blue field.
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How the United States is More Isolated Than Ever Before

04/18/2026 Clocking It: The Political Rundown — The Verdict Earlier this week, Halfway Clocked documented a remarkable global trend: the anti‑authoritarian surge. Hungarian voters delivered a democratic earthquake, ending Viktor Orbán’s sixteen‑year strongman rule and handing Péter Magyar a constitutional supermajority. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney secured a majority government, stabilizing a minority parliament and reaffirming democratic legitimacy. The message from Budapest and Ottawa was … Continue reading How the United States is More Isolated Than Ever Before

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Trump Devours His Own Ecosystem of Old Supporters. Screenshot of a social media post from the account “PatriotTakes” on X.com. The post claims that Tucker Carlson is selling “Low IQ” hats in response to Donald Trump’s comments about his MAGA critics. Below the text is an image showing three baseball caps—gray, red, and red‑white‑blue—each printed with the phrase “LOW IQ,” alongside a photo of Tucker Carlson wearing a brown jacket and blue shirt.
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Trump Devours His Own Ecosystem of Old Supporters

04/11/2026 Clocking It: The Political Rundown — The Verdict Two stories unfolded in America this week. One made headlines. The other should have. And as we noted in Halfway Clocked, the quiet Democratic wave across Wisconsin, Georgia, Missouri, and Oklahoma was the story the national media missed while fixating on a president tearing apart his own movement. The headline story was Donald Trump, 482 words … Continue reading Trump Devours His Own Ecosystem of Old Supporters

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Historic 19th‑century engraving of the original U.S. Capitol building, showing the early architecture used by the Founders and the first Congresses, symbolizing the constitutional design at the heart of America’s war‑powers debate.
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Transgressing the Line: Who Stops a President at War?

03/07/2026 Clocking It: The Political Rundown — The Verdict Earlier this week, Halfway Clocked examined a question as old as the Constitution itself: Can a president start a war without congressional approval? The answer lives in the space between what the Founders built and what history has bent. Article I gives Congress the power to declare war. Article II makes the president commander in chief. … Continue reading Transgressing the Line: Who Stops a President at War?

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A stylized map of the United States displaying Donald Trump's net approval ratings for each state and territory. The graphic uses the "Decked Out" magazine color palette, featuring a dark charcoal background with states shaded in cream, teal, red, orange, and yellow to represent different percentage ranges. Each state is labeled with its corresponding approval or disapproval percentage. Idaho (+28.0%) is marked with a small fire icon to denote the highest rating, while negative ratings span down to -77.7% for Washington, D.C. A legend at the bottom indicates the percentage ranges associated with each color.
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The Real SOTU: The State-by-State Collapse of Trump’s Approval

02/25/2026 Clocking It: The Political Rundown — Halfway Clocked The State of the Union just wrapped, and if the goal was to reassure Americans, it didn’t land… at all. If anything, the speech deepened the disconnect. Trump painted a picture of momentum, revival, and economic strength. But public sentiment tells a very different story. Polling shows Americans remain deeply dissatisfied with the economy, skeptical of … Continue reading The Real SOTU: The State-by-State Collapse of Trump’s Approval

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