China has quietly taken over America’s food supply
The CCP is eating our farmland for breakfast
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Tuesday
Did the Louvre robbers want to get caught?
It is more than a month since thieves stole the crown jewels from the Louvre and the chances of recovering the loot, worth an estimated €88 million, diminish with every passing day. The robbery was initially dubbed the “heist of the century,” a brazen theft in broad daylight as visitors strolled through the world’s most
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.
Sunday
Why Trump and Israel differ on Turkey’s involvement in Gaza
As the Gaza ceasefire struggles into its second month, a significant difference between the position of Israel and that of its chief ally, the United States, on the way forward is emerging. This difference reflects broader gaps in perception in Jerusalem and Washington regarding the nature and motivations of the current forces engaged in the
Friday
Is South Korea bracing for a third Trump-Kim summit?
Donald Trump’s meeting with President Xi was the standout moment of this month’s Asia-Pacific leaders’ summit in South Korea. Yet almost as much attention focused on the rumors that Trump’s gaze had turned once again to North Korea. Addressing suggestions he would meet Kim, the President told reporters, “I’d be open 100 percent. I get
Mini-Mamdani is (finally) new mayor of Seattle
Katie Wilson, 43, was finally declared winner nine days after polls closed
Thursday
The attack on the Heritage Foundation is an attack on MAGA
The GOP old guard is piggy-backing on the campaign against anti-Semitism to undermine the President’s agenda
How much did Trump really know about Epstein?
The main thing that has made the Epstein files seem politically (as opposed to morally) significant is that Donald Trump remains obsessed with preventing them from seeing the light of day. He thus devoted much of Wednesday to importuning Republicans such as Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert not to back their release. “Only a very bad,
The bonfire of the New Right’s vanities
The American right has a problem: it can’t stop talking about itself. Commentators, academics and journalists of what used to be called a “conservative” persuasion all tend to think that their ideas are tremendously interesting. And, in the way a difficult child becomes argumentative when he or she isn’t getting attention, they fight. They fear
A decade after Bataclan, France is more divided than ever
Ten years ago on Thursday, Islamist terrorists massacred 130 people in a coordinated attack across Paris. It was the heaviest loss of life on French soil since World War Two, and those who perished – as well as the 350 who were wounded – were remembered yesterday in a series of commemorations. Emmanuel Macron visited
Among the lords of tech
“What’s missing?” the tech titan Peter Thiel asks me, over lunch on the hummingbird-infested patio of his house in the Hollywood Hills. He gestures at Los Angeles, laid out in the haze below us. “Cranes!” he explains. Thiel has argued for years that America has done most of its innovation in digital “bits” instead of
Against flakes
A new drinks-party-shirking method has taken hold in society. I call it “Lastminute.non.” Previously, the way of not going to someone’s party was to write a polite message of refusal at least a week in advance, giving the host or hostess ample time to absorb the sad but inevitable fact that various friends would not
Wednesday
Gavin Newsom flies to UN climate summit
There’s something deeply disingenuous about Newsom’s endless climate crowing
The new Epstein Files are no smoking gun
The emails are more revealing of the power dynamics behind Trump’s first election
The Heritage Foundation’s exodus of experts
The damage that Kevin D. Roberts is doing is becoming irreparable
Will the Andrew formerly known as prince appear before Congress?
Amidst all the ceremony and gravity of Britain’s Remembrance Day service on Sunday, one salient fact could not be ignored. The King has long talked of his desire for a “stripped-down monarchy,” and now he has his wish. The only male figures from the Firm who were out on show alongside him were the Prince
Trump is creating a political Frankenstein
Redistricting efforts to shore up Republican prospects in 2026 could inadvertently undermine them
‘Mamdanimaniacs’ are fleecing themselves
The main effect of the popular leftism that Mamdani represents is to neutralize the revolutionary energy of the youth
Tuesday
The depressing truth about the media and John Fetterman
While The View’s hosts respected his struggles with mental illness, the same can’t be said for the New York Times
Has Trump finally shut down Schumer?
The Senate Minority Leader finds himself in troubled waters as Democrats move to reopen the government
Is Trump becoming a lame duck?
No sooner did Democrats in the Senate reach a deal to end the federal government shutdown than a frenzy of liberal pearl clutching ensued. The Democrats should have held out longer, they argued. Healthcare subsidies could have been rescued. Donald Trump’s approval ratings were plunging. Golly, maybe the Democrats could even have driven the dreaded
Monday
The sinister rise of Churchill revisionism
Winston Churchill is one of Britain’s enduring symbols. His relentless drive, deep conviction and steadfast leadership means that he remains admired by millions around the globe. Yet for years, the political mainstream has been compelled to defend his memory from spurious attacks from the left, such as the British politician John McDonnell calling him a
Trump takes on the British disinformation complex
The resignations over the weekend of two of the BBC’s highest executives are major victories for the President
The jihadist I knew: my life as al-Sharaa’s prisoner
As Washington rolls out the red carpet today for the former al-Qaeda chieftain and now Syrian president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syria’s minorities continue to live in terror. An army of destruction, half Mad Max, half Lollapalooza is rolling through the desert somewhere south of the country’s capital, Damascus. Who has ordered these militants into action? No one
Sunday
Is Trump’s $2,000 tariff dividend plan loopy?
In promising an economic boom, Trump has highlighted his responsibility for inflation and unemployment
Why is Trump sending an aircraft carrier to Venezuela?
Venezuela has been on tenterhooks for weeks, waiting as the United States gathers an armada of warships. The world’s largest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford, looks likely to arrive in the Caribbean from the Mediterranean early next week to join the assortment of destroyers, frigates, amphibious assault vessels and a nuclear-powered submarine. No one
Friday
We begged Hollywood for Sydney Sweeney
So why did GQ paint the actress as a gateway to white-supremacist America?
Why is it only left-wing leaders who are allowed to be young?
There was a time when the French left turned its nose up at all things American. Too low-brow for them. Not now. The victory of Zohran Mamdani in the New York mayoral race has caused much joie de vivre in left-circles. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the Gallic Bernie Saunders and the leader of the far-left La France Insoumise,
Who will replace Pelosi in Republican demonology?
Nancy Pelosi’s career is ending as it began. She entered Congress in 1986 during the Reagan administration and is ending it under the most influential Republican president since the Gipper. On Thursday she released a six-minute video announcing her retirement in 2027 from Congress, the latest octogenarian to depart it. No sooner did this contagonist
Will the Supreme Court force Trump to repay tariffs?
The issue before the court is whether the Economic Emergency Powers Act delegates tariff making to the president
Thursday
The medical emergency in the Oval Office
An attendee collapsed as Trump made a statement on fat jabs
Is Germany ready for military service?
It’s finally crunch time for Boris Pistorius’s plan to reintroduce military service in Germany. Following a delay of several months thanks to the country’s snap federal election campaign at the start of the year, the defense minister’s new “Modernization of Military Service” draft law is currently being debated in Berlin. Under Pistorius’s proposals, all 18-year-olds
Is Meghan Markle making a thespian comeback?
As Britain’s royal family attempts to maintain a “business as usual” approach in the aftermath of the biggest scandal to have engulfed the institution in decades, the pair responsible for its last existential embarrassment have been notably silent. You might have expected, as Andrew was showily stripped of all his titles, some sanctimonious comment on
China is holding the West to ransom over rare earths
China’s naked weaponization of rare earths brings to mind Mao Zedong’s “four pests” campaign, the old tyrant’s fanatical effort to exterminate all flies, mosquitoes, rats and sparrows, which turned into a spectacular piece of self-harm. Sparrows were always an odd choice of enemy, but Mao and his communist advisors reckoned each one ate four pounds
