One explanation is the increasingly popular Red Queen hypothesis, referring to the huffy chess piece in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. In Looking Glass Land, the Queen tells Alice ...

She finds Wonderland colorful and enchanting, but it's dangerous, too: Alice quickly falls afoul of the Red Queen, who has a ...

America has fallen through the looking glass into an un-wonderland where the Red Queen’s demand for “sentence before verdict” has become the law of the land.

With the help of her friends, Alice must travel through time to save the Mad Hatter and Underland's fate from the evil clutches of the Red Queen and a clock like creature, known as Time.