The sad saga of Lena Dunham
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Politics
Read about the latest political news, views and analysis
Sunday
Trump puts God back on the ballot
Should we celebrate the Johnson Amendment’s demise?
Saturday
The return of Stacey Abrams
The failed candidate is back to rewrite history again
MAGA is America’s third party
What Trumpism represents, obliquely, is the final victory of the Buchanan-Perot tendency in national life
One issue I can’t stop snubbing the left over
The New York Times and the left assume that ‘strategic frostiness’ is one-way
Friday
Is Mike Lee a bad Mormon?
Politico’s hit piece implies as much – but political divergence isn’t spiritual failure
Stephen Colbert kills The Late Show
He allowed his show to degenerate into a predictable regurgitation of stale leftist talking points
Was Trump in Epstein’s birthday book?
The president doth protest too much, methinks
Thursday
RIP NPR, the broadcaster that thought emojis were racist
The Senate approved a rescissions package that would, once and for all, take NPR off the federal funding payroll
Will Trump bail out Texas Republicans?
The idea that Donald Trump will parachute Ken Paxton out of the primary race entirely by giving him a role in Washington is growing
Axing the Department of Education will improve education
Money and choices for students, not for Washington bureaucrats
It’s Kamala 2028!
Vice President Harris remains favorite to reprise her role as the party’s presidential nominee
Wednesday
The secret life of Agent Melania
The former Slovenian supermodel clearly has no great love for Vladimir Putin
Trayon White is DC’s Donald Trump
Despite being accused of taking tens of thousands of dollars in bribes, the DC councilman still won reelection
Trump should bring the Fed to heel
The ‘independent Fed’ is a myth
Gun-toting Newsom’s alpha male rebrand
What do young men like? Guns, sports, cursing, podcasts. Great – let’s make that the new Newsom
Tuesday
Prizes, bets and venture capital: how Democrats plan to win
This is even funnier because the Democratic party has the answer right in front of them
The real threat of AI is spiritual
We’re primed to think of any existential threat from computers as fiction
What happens when AI surpasses humans?
Old technology doesn’t disappear because it’s bad: it disappears because it’s outcompeted
The race to superintelligence
Whoever owns the winning model will wield unimaginable power
