Will the Russia peace deal backfire on Trump?
The President has made himself party to a Faustian bargain
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Friday
Thursday
Was the BBC’s Trump edit outrageously wrong?
To the editors, the spliced speech had ‘truthiness’
Witkoff’s Ukraine peace proposal is unworkable
Zelensky will find nothing good in the latest plan
Marjorie Taylor Greene: anti-Trump resistance hero?
The left sees that she might be useful in their war to bring down Trump
Wednesday
Stacey Plaskett avoids Epstein Files repercussions… for now
The Delegate from the US Virgin Islands beat a censuring attempt after it was revealed she’d been emailing Epstein during a congressional hearing
America needs an ‘all-of-the-above’ approach to energy
AI’s appetite for reliable energy will require an energy-capacity building boom
Tuesday
Trump bromances MbS as Epstein Files loom
In seeking to bury the files, Trump has been defending the very establishment that he professes to despise
Nicki Minaj and Mike Waltz team up at the UN
‘Please join me in welcoming a daughter of the Caribbean, a champion of the oppressed and a sister in Christ’
How Trump could attack Venezuela
There is immense pressure to begin operations, or else back down
Are AI stocks about to crash?
The crypto plunge is part of a wider fall in tech and AI stocks
China has quietly taken over America’s food supply
The CCP is eating our farmland for breakfast
Can Trump control inflation?
If voters feel they are going backward, then the vaulting success of the stock market or the tech sector can feel like an insult
Trump’s Oddjob: the rise of Steven Cheung
The White House communications director saves his harshest vitriol for the press
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