Open Thread
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Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi discuss the outrages of the week, including Jeffrey Epstein, Billie Eilish, and DoorDash.
A new poll finds that even white men without college degrees, a key voting constituency for Trump, don’t approve of the president’s handling of the economy.
Arkansas tooth picks, selective schools, and inconsistent travel plans.
Trump's endorsements of Viktor Orbán and Sanae Takaichi, like Clinton's support for Boris Yeltsin or Obama's opposition to Benjamin Netanyahu, do not make America great.
Plus: assessing Trump’s first year, the dysfunction of Washington, D.C., and the politics of the Super Bowl. (Recorded live in Washington, D.C.)
Department of Homeland Security
Plus: detention center NIMBYism and why you shouldn't walk on the semifrozen Potomac river.
"It's not that South Park suddenly quote got political. It's that politics became pop," co-creator Trey Parker said in a recent interview.
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The Department of Education is getting a bigger budget, less than a year after President Donald Trump ordered the department's closure.
"This type of broad reveal of criminal investigative files, released to a rabid media, will absolutely result in innocent people being hurt," warned Clay Higgins.
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Yes, that includes drag queen story hour.
It's a bad idea, just like it was a bad idea five years ago when Democrats proposed something similar.
Plus: More evidence that immigrants are good for America, Trump's call to "nationalize" elections, and more...
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Plus: sports figures in the Jeffrey Epstein files, a new documentary about the Miracle on Ice, and who are readers rooting for in the Super Bowl?
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Plus: a partial shutdown over ICE funding, Kevin Warsh to lead the Fed, and Moltbook’s AI society
Plus: the Epstein files, the officers who shot Alex Pretti, and more...
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What’s on your mind?
They’re not getting the whole “shall not be infringed” part of the U.S. and Virginia constitutions.
Modest markups, shotgun pleadings, and the Kansas Two-Step.
Plus: Shutdown averted? Pixar's NIMBY robot beavers, Amazon goes big on AI, and Trump wants to prop up home prices.
Limited government means those in power can do limited damage to the rest of us.
Furious Minds identifies national conservatives, postliberals, and Claremonters as the coalition driving the New Right.
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This was straight-up debunked.
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