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All the latest analysis of the day's news and stories
Monday
Why Trump can’t escape the Epstein Files drama
The list is a bête noire of the right
Musk’s chatbot stumbles again
No living human has had a week as tumultuous as Grok
Zohran Mamdani’s radical parents
They hypocritically lament America while luxuriating in its fruits
Sunday
The Ten Commandments of Texas
It’s a bold middle finger to true civil libertarians
The mask slips at Socialism 2025
Speakers proposed eliminating police from campuses, abolishing test scores and replacing the nuclear family
Saturday
The real scandal of Zohran Mamdani’s college application
The hacked data – that set off a firestorm at The New York Times – revealed colleges are still discriminating by race
Friday
A trio of scandals
Unanswered questions are eroding trust in American democracy
Barron Trump, the enigmatic crypto scion
His mystique appears entirely deliberate
Thursday
Who is Biden’s doctor protecting?
By taking the Fifth, he only raises more suspicion
Biden’s doctor embarrasses the profession
Pleading the Fifth is cowardice, not good ethics
Ketanji Brown Jackson pushes ideology over the Constitution
Dissent is a sacred tool, not a soapbox.
Will the FBI shed light on the Trump shooting?
If Kash Patel and Dan Bongino want to win back some of the MAGA fans they’ve lost in the last few days, they’d be wise to start asking such questions
Wednesday
The Trump administration is practicing Carmen Sandiego economic theory
Where in the world are the tariffs?
Memes are legal again
A judge has thrown out the conviction of Douglass Mackey for posting a meme
Trump blocked from defunding Planned Parenthood
A lone federal district court judge prohibited the federal defunding of the abortion provider
Trump declares war on the podcast bros
Unless answers are swiftly forthcoming, Epstein theorizing will not cease any time soon
Is China funding the climate lobby?
Western climate policy practically invites bad actors
Tuesday
Has Trump given up on tariff deadlines?
The President is risking something more – the diminishment of his political superpower: unpredictability
Superman takes on the media
Anti-woke pundits are gearing up for a battle
Is this the end of the Jeffrey Epstein case?
Americans remain rightfully suspicious
Elon Musk’s America party could hurt Republicans
But I’d be surprised if we are even still talking about it a year from now
Monday
Elon Musk is America’s dumbest smart person
The America party is a fool’s errand
Tucker tosses softballs to Iran
Carlson’s interviews give us a glimpse of what it would be like if we had an actual state-run media
Can Trump get Netanyahu to end the war in Gaza?
Hamas is still calling for the withdrawal of all Israeli troops
We’ll never know the truth about Jeffrey Epstein
The FBI leaves a long list of unanswered questions
Don’t politicize the Texas flood
In the last few days, the blame has flowed faster and thicker than the raging muddy waters of the Guadalupe River
Europe’s favorite novelty is causing pile-ups in the US
The irksome traffic circle – or, yeesh, ’roundabout’ – is quickly taking root
Zohran Mamdani wouldn’t mock his own faith
It is hard to imagine him lampooning Islamic festivals as he has Christmas and Hanukkah
Sunday
Why Trump stopped calling on Iran to ‘surrender’
The Geneva Conventions now constrain legitimate military action
Saturday
How AI will reignite woke
Woke politics are a way of signifying that you are high-status – and all of this status anxiety is about to be supercharged by AI
The Merchant of Mar-a-Lago
Trump’s use of the word ‘Shylock’ allows his opponents to play the ‘he’s anti-Semitic’ card, when he clearly isn’t
Franken-Wildlife: will cloned game destroy hunting?
The prospect of ‘Franken-wildlife’ raises alarm bells
Friday
Trump’s Big, Beautiful Fourth of July
‘As we enter our 249th year America is winning, winning, winning, like never before’
