Trump’s Oddjob: the rise of Steven Cheung
The White House communications director saves his harshest vitriol for the press
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Tuesday
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?
The bonfire of the New Right’s vanities
The grandstanding over Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes is exhausting
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
Why Europe can’t go it alone on Ukraine
The continent cannot afford to fund Kyiv’s war effort
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
Did the Louvre robbers want to get caught?
They left behind incriminating evidence, but perhaps their bungling was all part of a plan
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.
Robert De Niro has a serious case of Trump envy
His obsession with the President goes back a long way
Why Trump and Israel differ on Turkey’s involvement in Gaza
Israel identifies Turkey as something close to an enemy state. The reasons aren’t mysterious
Sunday
Is South Korea bracing for a third Trump-Kim summit?
For centuries, Korea viewed itself as a ‘shrimp among whales’
