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Tuesday
Are AI stocks about to crash?
Bitcoin has lost almost a quarter of its value. The tech-heavy NASDAQ index on Wall Street has started to fall. And even leaders of the industry, such as the Google CEO Sundar Pichai, have started to warn about valuations getting out of control. We already knew that AI was driving a boom in investment. But this week there are worrying signs the market is about to crack. The only real question is whether that turns into a full scale crash. Bitcoin, as so often, is leading the market rout. More than $1 trillion has been wiped off the value of the crypto market over the last six weeks, with Bitcoin
China has quietly taken over America’s food supply
The CCP is eating our farmland for breakfast
Can Trump control inflation?
If voters feel they are going backward, then the vaulting success of the stock market or the tech sector can feel like an insult
Trump’s Oddjob: the rise of Steven Cheung
The White House communications director saves his harshest vitriol for the press
Andrew Cuomo was the spoiler, not me
Curtis Sliwa reflects on the New York mayoral race
Is MAGA cracking up?
A year after Trump’s reelection, is his coalition starting to implode?
What would Buckley do?
Will his like ever come again?
It’s the cost of living, stupid
The MAGA agenda will only succeed if Americans feel material relief
Has QAnon been vindicated?
The online movement has, obliquely, been the best guide to events over the past decade
How scientists misled the world about faith
One of psychology’s seminal experiments is based on lies
The battle for Anna Wintour’s Vogue empire
Her struggle with the company’s union has become existential
Why Trump is freezing out Five Eyes allies
To the White House, the alliance is a nest of ‘deep-state’ vipers
How the Ukrainian far right is preventing peace
If a ceasefire is signed, it is far from clear that they will lay down their arms
The unbearable wokeness of the Canadian military
Veteran Dallas Alexander on the NATO member’s sensitivity obsession
Beautiful interiors can’t guarantee a beautiful marriage
Every generation falls for the same trick. Why?
The Dr. Strangelove taxonomy of DC types
My social life is meeting a different character every week
Monday
Olivia Nuzzi tells all on RFK Jr.
A look at her forthcoming, often wince-making, memoir about her ‘affair’ with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Sunday
Why Trump and Israel differ on Turkey’s involvement in Gaza
As the Gaza ceasefire struggles into its second month, a significant difference between the position of Israel and that of its chief ally, the United States, on the way forward is emerging. This difference reflects broader gaps in perception in Jerusalem and Washington regarding the nature and motivations of the current forces engaged in the Middle East. The subject of that difference is Turkey. The Turks have expressed a desire to play a role in the “international stabilization force” (ISF), which, according to President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan, is supposed to take over ground security control of Gaza from the IDF (and Hamas) in the framework of the plan’s implementation.
Friday
Is South Korea bracing for a third Trump-Kim summit?
Donald Trump’s meeting with President Xi was the standout moment of this month’s Asia-Pacific leaders’ summit in South Korea. Yet almost as much attention focused on the rumors that Trump’s gaze had turned once again to North Korea. Addressing suggestions he would meet Kim, the President told reporters, “I’d be open 100 percent. I get along very well with Kim Jong-un.” A meeting never materialized, but speculation – and tension – has only grown since. Days after Trump’s departure, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth arrived as part of his own tour of Asia. In Seoul, he became the first defence secretary in nearly eight years to visit Panmunjeom, the border village
