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The Greenland Tariff Farce and America’s ‘Emergency’ Emergency
3+ hour, 7+ min ago (369+ words) You're reading Capitolism, Scott Lincicome's weekly newsletter on economics. To unlock the full version, become a Dispatch member today. Before we get to that latter point, the president's Greenland tariff threat compels me to make several initial observations about how…...
Dispatch Politics Roundup: Voters Sour on Trump’s Immigration Enforcement
3+ hour, 24+ min ago (361+ words) John McCormack is a senior editor at The Dispatch and is based in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the company in 2023, he was Washington correspondent at National Review and a senior writer at The Weekly Standard. He is also a visiting…...
Year One of the Crypto President
11+ hour, 6+ min ago (684+ words) You're reading The Morning Dispatch, our flagship daily newsletter explaining all the news you need to know today in fewer than 15 minutes. To unlock the full version, become a Dispatch member today. Happy Thursday! Bloomberg reports that billionaires at Davos…...
Is Lisa Cooked?
14+ hour, 57+ min ago (102+ words) Fact-based reporting and analysis on politics, policy, and culture'informed by conservative principles. Sarah Isgur and David French break down Paul Clement's "thousand duck-sized horses" argument before the Supreme Court in the Trump administration's case over the firing of Lisa Cook,…...
Understanding Iran’s Role in Venezuela
15+ hour, 12+ min ago (873+ words) The regimes share more than anti-Americanism. - Emanuele Ottolenghi - Start a free trial today for full access. Understanding Iran's Role in Venezuela Turn any article into a podcast. Upgrade now to start listening. The removal from power of Venezuela's dictator, Nicol's…...
My State Adopted Ranked-Choice Voting. It Was a Mistake.
15+ hour, 15+ min ago (1098+ words) Would you like to make elections more civil? Are you tired of "spoiler" candidates? Do you think the winners of elections should be supported by the majority of citizens? If so, great news: Ranked-choice voting is here to fix our…...
The Case for Making Every Vote Count
15+ hour, 17+ min ago (223+ words) Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He is editor, with Edward B. Foley and Richard H. Pildes, of Electoral Reform in the United States, published last year....
Douthat’s Paradox
17+ hour, 51+ min ago (1368+ words) You're reading the'G-File, Jonah Goldberg's biweekly newsletter on politics and culture. To unlock the full version, become a Dispatch member today. "Trump's Second Term Has Ended the Conservative Era." That's the headline to a column by Ross Douthat that's been…...
Paying the Price for Trump’s Economic Illiteracy
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (333+ words) I'm not sure what to call the new era we seem to be entering. But I am sure it will make people poorer. The problem, beyond the basic economic illiteracy inherent in the analogy, is that Trump keeps changing the…...
Finding the Way Back From War
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (1705+ words) We make several turns, dodging handcarts to reach a wide arcade. At Sarhan Coffee, men fill benches wedged between bulging sacks of beans, sipping. A sign above the doorway dates the shop to 1897." What I taste, a dark but not…...