Nine days from the twenty-fifth anniversary, a new poll asked the simplest question you can ask about September 11: do Americans remember it too much, too little, or about right? The country as a whole said about right—46 percent. Six percent said too much. Then you cut the tape by party and the funeral splits […]
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Mark Carney walked to the microphones Tuesday and issued the latest Canadian war aim. Not dairy access. Not steel rates. Memes. Stop doing them. Stop throwing shade. Stop trying to be tough. Then, and only then, can grown-ups resume the trade talks he walked out of on August 21. That is not a demand. That […]
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Kristen Welker told a Washington local hit that Donald Trump has had “some mixed results” with primary endorsements this cycle, then immediately named a win. Trump went nuclear and called it a lie on public airwaves. The scoreboard is not mixed. It is lopsided in a way Sunday shows only notice when the other team […]
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Friday night Trump announced what he called the biggest oil deal in world history: majority U.S. control of more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan proven reserves, through a private partnership, at no cost to the taxpayer. Caracas’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez—on the job since American forces took Nicolás Maduro in January—called it historic and […]
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We’re in another psychodrama, melodrama controversy, and that is that [President] Donald Trump has just renamed Lake Ontario, one of the five Great Lakes, 55% of which is in Canada, 45% in the United States. He said as far as America is concerned, it’s now Lake America. Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s […]
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Maggie Litz Domanowski sits on the Baltimore County school board. Over the weekend she shared a Peanuts panel—Linus with a sign: if you think MAGA is coming for women’s rights, you should learn about Sharia. She typed “not wrong.” By Tuesday night she was at the board table saying she was truly sorry, that hearing […]
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Last July at Turnberry, Donald Trump sat Ursula von der Leyen down and traded a threatened 30 percent tariff wall for a framework. Fifteen percent on most European goods heading into America. Europe opens its market, buys American energy, invests in America, and stops treating U.S. exporters like a problem to be regulated to death. […]
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But They’ll Cover Their Hair for the Muslim Room. Kathy Hochul put on a black hijab Friday at an Islamic cultural center school in the Bronx and addressed a hall of men. The clip hit the internet Sunday. She has called herself a feminist. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did the same costume in May at an Eid […]
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In March, a declassified intelligence summary surfaced describing intercepted Ukrainian government communications from late 2022. The summary said officials in Kyiv, working with unnamed American personnel through the aid mission there, discussed a clean-energy infrastructure project as cover. Hundreds of millions in taxpayer money would be approved. About 90 percent would be routed through U.S. […]
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We’re in another spat with our northern neighbor, Canada, kind of a psychodrama again. We were at the penultimate stage of a new trade agreement, just expanding on the prior trade agreements when, at the last moment, Prime Minister Mark Carney pulled out, and he cited that there were unfair demands that adjudicated whether Canada, as a […]