Archive - The Long Memo (TLM)

The Oil Shock Is Old News. The Food Shock Is Coming.

Hormuz Isn't an Energy Story Anymore — It's a Grocery Store Story

Mar 13 • Bryan C. Del Monte

The Energy Secretary Who Lied to the Oil Market — and Got Away With It

The Post He Deleted Tells You Everything About Where We Are

Mar 11 • Bryan C. Del Monte

The Strait of Hormuz Just Gave Your Savings a Deadline

You're Not Energy Independent. Your Savings Are Proof.

Mar 5 • Bryan C. Del Monte

The War That Didn’t Require Permission

You Just Watched Your Government Start a War. Now Count the Hands That Approved It.

Mar 4 • Bryan C. Del Monte

The Sermon and the Starter’s Pistol

How One Strike Rewrote the Nuclear Incentives of the World

Mar 1 • Bryan C. Del Monte

February 2026

Silence Can Be Deafening

The Power of Absence.

Feb 22 • Bryan C. Del Monte

A Persian Gulf Circus

Performative brinkmanship wrapped in strategic anxiety and sold as destiny.

Feb 20 • Bryan C. Del Monte

When Oversight Becomes Theater

The Hearing Wasn’t Chaos. It Was Choreography.

Feb 11 • Bryan C. Del Monte

January 2026

The Problems the Fulton County Election Warrant Never Addresses

Federal seizure of election records risks impairing state criminal prosecutions—and the warrant offers no justification for that interference.

Jan 30 • Bryan C. Del Monte

The New American Alibi: He Had It Coming

Alex Pretti did not deserve to be shot.

Jan 25 • Bryan C. Del Monte

We Are Past the “One-Trigger” Moment

What the cycle of insurrection looks like in America.

Jan 24 • Bryan C. Del Monte

The Seriousness Test: We get an F-

Invoking the 25th Amendment instead of impeachment is how Congress admits it is no longer governing

Jan 21 • Bryan C. Del Monte

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