Bill Kristol: Authoritarian Takeover
Militarizing the nation's capital is not a distraction, and Democrats really need to stop using that term. Trump is trying to seize power, intimidate the public, and foment violence in the streets. An...
18 Aug 202542min
Hakeem Jeffries: More Is More
While Donald Trump delivers chaos, cruelty, and corruption—and Republicans play the facts-and-hypocrisy don't matter game— Democrats have to do more rallies, more town halls, and more hearings, on and...
15 Aug 20251h
Michael Weiss: Helsinki in Anchorage?
At the Alaska summit, Putin will likely be angling for a sequel of the Helsinki meeting, the infamous tête-à-tête in 2018 where Trump got rolled and cajoled. And because Trump refuses to accept that h...
14 Aug 202548min
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 Aug 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 Aug 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 Aug 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 Aug 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 Aug 202548min
