In September, I wrote an essay called “A Wargame Designer Defines Our Four Possible Civil Wars.” I got a lot of commentary, with some thinking I’d taken a thought exercise too far. That was totally fair until today when The first shots of a new civil war, only one day…

We spend too much of Thanksgiving glorifying the pilgrims and not enough commemorating the lives of Native Americans. Today, I’ll shift the focus a bit by telling you about a group you’ve likely never heard of. …

Like you, I was horrified and sickened by Hamas’s attacks on Israeli concertgoers and kibbutz residents near Gaza on Saturday. In Operation Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, Hamas killed more than a thousand Israeli, European, and American Jews in attacks from land, air, and sea. Babies were slaughtered. Children, young women, and…

Gavin Newsom is supposed to be a smart guy. He sure sounds like one to me. If you read this eye-opening Atlantic profile, you see a California governor who’s thoughtful, caring, and keenly aware of his place in the world. …

I’ve been preoccupied with my health lately, so I haven’t said anything about Activision Blizzard, a company I know and have worked with (for example, I led the teams that did the tabletop RPG adaptations of Starcraft and Diablo). As I’m late to the subject, I won’t give you another…

It’s endorsement time! Of course, I seriously considered both candidates. I seriously considered one a con man, a sociopath, a racist, a fascist, a serial liar, a sexual predator, a tax fraud, a mass murderer, and just all around gross. I seriously considered the other one the only choice for…

Well, that was an interesting kickoff to October Surprise Season. “Season”? Oh, yes. The news is shockingly unstable, with new bombshells daily. Remember three months ago when Bob Woodward’s revelations of Trump’s knowledge of the virus came out? Wait, that was three weeks ago? Right. A single October Surprise won’t…

If you’ve read my essays like “A Wargame Designer Defines Our Four Possible Civil Wars” over the last four years, you know I’ve used game theory to analyze Donald Trump’s actions and many other political issues. I decided to put them into a new 532-page edition of Game Theory in…

If you believe the polls, Kamala Harris has a better than 50% chance to become the most powerful woman of color in American history. This is an unprecedented and barrier-shattering event, one that could change the lives of generations of girls and people of color. …