The curious case of Botox babies
One of the most entrenched rules in life is that the grass is always greener on the other side. It seems doubly true for women
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Thursday
The LaPierre legacy
The man who built the National Rifle Association into a juggernaut leaves it in disarray
Why the luxury life feels alien
When I emerged onto Twitter in 2015, I felt like I was driving a jalopy on a freeway filled with Teslas
How Covid amnesia spread through the right and left
Four years into ‘two weeks to stop the spread,’ the main characters of the pandemic have taken to revisionism
The Supreme Court takes on the administrative state
Loper Bright v. Raimondo and Relentless v. Department of Commerce both involve bizarre fishing rules
What will the new Trump foreign policy look like?
The former president came into office as an agent of chaos, but his foreign policy ended up relatively stable. Will that change in a second term?
Donald Trump and the clash of realities
Reality itself is contested today in a way that goes beyond anything in earlier US history
The magic of making maple syrup
‘The reason maple syrup tastes so good is because there’s love in every jar’
Tuesday
The 2024 campaign cage fight
Campaigns are no longer a game of wooing voters with public debates, rallies and door knocking
Newlywed dining around the world
Our first year of marriage has involved a lot of hosting
The course of the American empire
Instead of frank acknowledgment and robust action, Biden and his minders have retreated into Stalinist Newspeak
Is Courier Newsroom really fighting fake news?
Journalists who have worked at Tara McGowan’s news outlet say the ideals it publicly professes are a far cry from reality
America is too fat for another civil war
It’s not right versus left: it’s Dunkin’ versus Krispy Kreme, battling for the soul of the country
The fall of Nikki Haley’s comet
How the Republican donor class blew another election
How to jail a president
Donald Trump could face prison time this year. What would that look like?
How California’s new trucking regulations threaten standards of living
The Golden State’s mandates look to be yet another case of progressive California dreaming
The populism of Machiavelli and Jefferson
In America today, our virtues and successes are our undoing, much more than our vices or failures
Will Covid voting rules stay in place in 2024?
As campaigns hit their stride, state voting regulations loom large, particularly in the battleground states
Against LOLflation
Online language is evolving to leave a new generation of older users behind
Inside the 2024 campaign consultant calamity
The primary season is just getting started but the consultant backbiting has already begun