Stacey Plaskett avoids Epstein Files repercussions… for now
The Delegate from the US Virgin Islands beat a censuring attempt after it was revealed she’d been emailing Epstein during a congressional hearing
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Wednesday
America needs an ‘all-of-the-above’ approach to energy
AI’s appetite for reliable energy will require an energy-capacity building boom
Trump bromances MbS as Epstein Files loom
The contrast could hardly have been starker. As Donald Trump palled around with Mohammed bin Salman in the newly gilded Oval Office, Congress was voting on a transparency act that would further expose Jeffrey Epstein’s grave misdeeds. Trump, who had worked overtime to try and quash the vote, was in his element with the Saudi crown prince. Transparency? Not a bit of it. Trump proclaimed that the crown prince “knew nothing” about the death of Jamal Khashoggi who was, after all, “extremely controversial,” the term that he often deploys to describe anyone he dislikes or finds nettlesome. The hero, or, to put it more precisely, heroine, of the day was Marjorie Taylor Greene. Greene is a profile in courage. She stood up for Epstein’s victims
Tuesday
Nicki Minaj and Mike Waltz team up at the UN
‘Please join me in welcoming a daughter of the Caribbean, a champion of the oppressed and a sister in Christ’
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