Jason Calacanis: Anarcho Capitalism
Tim Cook groveling to Trump with a golden trophy and a dash of MAGA identity politics is probably a sign that we are not currently living in a healthy free-market economy. But business leaders apparen...
13 Elo 20251h 3min
Amanda Carpenter: Fake Emergencies
Trump keeps creating all these phony crises—an 'invasion' at the border, immigrants in the interior, crime in D.C.—so he can put on a show of force for his white base. He's also declaring fake emergen...
12 Elo 202555min
Bill Kristol: The Lawless Administration
Crime is down in D.C., but Trump is using the pretext of an attempted carjacking of "Big Balls," the former 19-year-old DOGE employee, to take over the city's police department and deploy the National...
11 Elo 202545min
Lis Smith: Dems Need to Burn Down the Party Establishment
There's a direct line between when the Democratic Party got nationalized and when it started getting wiped out in red states. Dems need to embrace heterodoxy in their candidates—running in New York Ci...
8 Elo 202549min
Anne Applebaum: What USAID's Absence Looks Like on the Ground
The United States, through USAID, not only supplied a big chunk of the world's humanitarian aid, it also provided almost all of the logistical support for other aid organizations to deliver relief as ...
7 Elo 202548min
Zerlina Maxwell and Josh Barro: We Are in a Bad Place
Gerrymandering has always been partisan, but what's happening in Texas is straight-up racial politics. Republicans are targeting and trying to disenfranchise black voters while betting that Latino vot...
6 Elo 20251h 10min
Chuck Todd: Is the Economy the Biggest Political Threat to Trump?
Voters in the seven swing states that elected Trump in 2024 thought he'd make the economy better. His perceived strength on the economy is the cornerstone Jenga piece of the whole Trump Tower. And he ...
5 Elo 202554min
Bill Kristol: This Is So Third World
The boss only wants to hear good news: that's the takeaway from Trump's high-profile firing over the weak job numbers. So if a government worker has something bad to report, they now know they'll have...
4 Elo 202556min
