In an Atlantic Monthly article written in 2007, Tom Wolfe describes America as "the freest, most open country in the world, encouraging one and all to compete pell-mell for any great goal that exists.”  It's clear in 2024 that idea is fine theoretically, but not working in practice. Reporting is about intellectual freedom. We're journalists who are looking to re-introduce a bit of wildness into a weekly news blog regardless of political tribalism.