They put a vaccine in monkeys. Then they put Ebola in the air and made the animals breathe it. Most …
Bessent Counted the Last Barrels. He Called It a Funeral.
Sunday morning the Treasury secretary put a date on it. About fifteen million barrels of Iranian oil still on the …
Democrat Primary Candidates Wanted the Stamp. They Don’t Want the General Election Picture.
In the spring they wanted her in the room. They wanted the video, the crowd in the rain, the post …
Is This Really Mercy?
The boast traveling the wires is simple and ugly. More people were put to death by doctors in Canada last …
The internet said Politico went broke when foreign aid stopped. The invoices tell a different story.
Last February, Politico missed payroll for the first time in its 18-year history. Staff in Arlington woke up on a …
Iran Called It Doomsday With a Straight Face
The foreign minister sat for an American Sunday interview and said his country was ready for a doomsday war. He …
They Flunked Reading. So the State Flunked the Test.
New York discovered a large share of would-be teachers could not clear a basic literacy exam. The state’s answer was …
Bernie Made a Villain List. It’s actually a Product Catalog.
Bernie Sanders looked at a state dinner and saw ten oligarchs. He posted the scoreboard: how much richer each got …
He Called Them Parasites. Then He Read Them the Minutes.
Wednesday Javier Milei took the green marble for the third straight year and did not pretend the building still does …
This Dumb Tribalism Is Tearing America Apart
I think we should entitle our short video today “Tribalism: Tribalism Doesn’t Work.” And what do I mean by that? The …
We Want a Hotline for When the Computer Starts a War.
The original red line was not a metaphor. After Cuba, Washington and Moscow strung a dedicated circuit so two men …
Someone Voted to Put the Suspect on the Credentials Committee.
Iran was not “added to the IAEA.” It has been a member since 1958. What happened in Vienna this month …
They Built a Second Welfare State. The First One Was Too Legal.
Federal law says illegal aliens do not get full Medicaid. California read that sentence as a drafting error. The fix …
EU Finally Admits Not All Doses Were The Same. Some Were Fatal.
The claim making the rounds is neat: European officials finally admitted the shots were not the same shot — different …
They Mapped the Speaker’s Phone and Called It Justice.
The Constitution keeps the people who write the laws separate from the people who prosecute crimes. It does this in …
We Sold Them the Air Force. They Still Can’t Buy a Win.
For forty years we have treated Riyadh like a showroom. Fighters, Apaches, Patriots, THAAD, tank engines, bombs with brains, and …
He Told the Room There Is No World Government. Then He Told Iran There Are Two Doors.
Tuesday he took the General Assembly podium for thirty-seven minutes and treated it like a staff meeting with worse lighting. …
He Quit on Tuesday. By Wednesday He Was the Apocalypse.
Jacob Coxon is twenty-seven, British, and as of last week the man who told America the computers are going to …
Trump Sent the Cavalry to The Home of the Blues. The Change was Immediate.
A year ago Memphis was the poster. Highest violent-crime rate in the country in 2024. Highest property-crime rate too. Murder …
He Didn’t Name the Segments. He Named the Network.
Friday President Trump banned CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the people’s house, effective immediately, for constant “fake news,” fiction, …
Trump Didn’t Buy the Ice. He Bought the Veto.
Friday the President said the United States now has permanent control over security — and “all other needs” — in …
Blue States Fighting for More Taxpayer Money for Immigrants
Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia walked into a Manhattan courthouse last week to stop a rule that says, …
He is Doing the Job. He Even Numbered It. Is it Enough for the Mid-Terms?
On Friday he put twenty-five lines on the board and called it Term Three. It is his second term. Call …
He Sat on the Spy Court. Then He Hosted the Delegation.
James Boasberg is the chief judge in the District of Columbia. Obama put him on the trial bench. The chief …
The Reddest Big State Just Became a Coin Flip.
Ken Paxton buried John Cornyn in May. Sixty-three-eight to thirty-six-two. The establishment lost. The attorney general got the nomination. Texas …
He Ordered a Kill Switch for an AI Agent in Another Country.
Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on Friday. The press release said kill switch. The fine print said committee. He …
Democrats Treat a Rule Vote Like Treason. The Other Side Treats It Like Weather.
House Democrats do not lose sleep over a member voting no on a messaging bill. They lose their minds when …
Pundits Called the Voters Gross. The Voters Called the Race a Tie.
A mid-September survey of 803 likely Michigan voters asked a question about the presidency, not the Senate, and the living …
He Said the Country Deserved It. Now He Wants a Cut of the Ticket.
Hasan Piker is not a senator. He is not a precinct captain. He is a man with a camera, a …
Don’t Come to This Free world Leader With Free Speech. He Already Has a Word for That.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz told a room of science kids in Berlin on Tuesday not to bring him that phrase. …