The Canadian Guest Author’s Name is Withheld The Peace Arch Tariffs, annexation rhetoric, and uncertainty about NATO have done what decades of geopolitical rivalry never could: convince many Canadians that the United States itself has become their greatest strategic concern. The Canadian Reaction Canadians have become disenchanted with the United States, not with Americans per […]
June 30, 2026 Many federal employees understand that they have a duty to protect properly classified information. Fewer understand that they also have a duty to challenge information that is improperly classified. Founded in 2016, The Steady State is a nonprofit 501(c)(4) organization of more than 420 former senior national security professionals. Our membership includes […]
In a format shift, host Peter Mina turns the microphone over to co-host Lauren C. Anderson to explore her origin story — from a childhood visit to the FBI where a tour guide told her girls can’t be agents because “…they paint their fingernails,” to serving as a senior executive in the FBI across nearly […]
Author’s Name Withheld As America approaches its 250th anniversary, we should be asking whether we are becoming what the founders risked everything to reject: a country where executive power and federal agents are used to intimidate dissent. “I think today would be a good day for Jonathan to be indicted.” That single sentence—an opinion about […]
The Constitution of the United States; The U.S. National Archives The future of the American Republic will be determined only by the cumulative choices of citizens, public servants, journalists, judges, and legislators to defend—or abandon—the constitutional principles that have sustained the nation for nearly 250 years. The Steady State offered readers this week a message […]
Compliments of Scientific American Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship now before the Supreme Court isn’t merely unconstitutional—it rests on false premises. Across the Western Hemisphere, birthright citizenship is the democratic norm, and abandoning it would weaken America’s credibility, strain vital regional relationships, and undermine U.S. national security. Birthright citizenship is the simple and democratic […]
As she was being pushed out the door by her temporary replacement, the eminently unqualified William Pulte, Tulsi Gabbard rescinded a flawed intelligence product that had turned a blind eye to Russian attacks on US government officials, then pivoted to resurrect a Russian information operation that falsely claimed the US was supporting the development of […]
While Americans focus on wars, executive overreach, and constitutional crises, a quieter campaign is steadily weakening democracy’s foundations. By undermining science, expertise, education, and evidence-based reasoning, the administration is creating a society where facts become negotiable, confusion becomes permanent, and authoritarianism no longer needs to win arguments—it only needs to make truth impossible to find. […]
For immediate release: June 25, 2026 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Steady State, an organization of more than 415 former national security, intelligence, diplomatic, military, law enforcement, and homeland security officials, today filed a federal lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for failing to release records about the agency’s monitoring of citizens engaged in […]