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Almost Over

Within hours of a rally in Grand Island, Nebraska, on Monday night, a clip was circulating of Donald Trump saying “Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego.” The reaction was immediate and furious. California’s governor wrote that the President was saying America’s foreign enemies should take out the two cities […]

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The Stolen Valor of a Despicable Man

Donald Trump is the lowest of the low. On September 8, 2026, five days before the twenty-fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Donald Trump stood at a White House ceremony hosted by the Tunnel to Towers Foundation and accepted a piece of an American flag holding steel recovered from the World Trade Center’s South […]

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Sharpie King

I have hiked the forests that ring this lake. I have walked a dog along its shoreline when the water was the color of wet slate and the gulls were screaming. I have run its paths in July heat and February ice. I know this lake the way you know a neighbor for a lifetime. […]

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The Shot Heard ‘Round the Honor Roll

Settle down and pay attention. I have uncovered a statistical relationship so strong, so consistent, and so entirely unexamined, that it demands to be published before someone else takes credit for it. In 1971, the United States licensed the combined measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine. Practically every American child born after that year received […]

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The Client Never Changed

Todd Blanche spent years defending Donald Trump in criminal court. Hush money, classified documents, the conspiracy to overturn an election Trump lost. Blanche took these cases and built a career on them. Now the Senate has confirmed him as Attorney General of the United States, by a vote of 50 to 49, with only two […]

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President Mayonnaise

He stood at his little podium in Marietta, Georgia, and the heat did what four years of consequence never managed. The makeup gave way. Rivulets of bronzer ran the length of his jaw and pooled at his collar, a gob of brown-tinged mayonnaise sliding out the side of a tuna sandwich left too long in […]

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Como Pedro Por Su Casa

Spain did not stumble into winning the 2026 World Cup. For two years running now, the same nation has stood at the summit of the sport the rest of the world actually cares about, and the summit has held. Euro 2024 belonged to them. The 2026 World Cup, contested across a sprawling, overstuffed, forty-eight team […]

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A Tale Told By an Idiot

Shakespeare gave us the phrase for nights like this one: A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Thursday night, in a primetime address he demanded the networks carry (but most didn’t anyway), the President of the United States told his tired tale again. He shared not one fact that […]

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THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF JAPAN

Standing beside Volodymyr Zelensky in Ankara on Wednesday, Donald Trump told reporters that an American aircraft carrier had been fired on by “the Islamic Republic of Japan.” One hundred and eleven missiles, he said, launched at the USS Abraham Lincoln by a nation he meant to call Iran and instead called Japan. A NATO summit. […]

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