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The best group chat
When you get older, your life naturally splits into separate social compartments. You have your family compartment and your work compartment. Your friends are segmented into separate…
February 5, 2025
Dive into this week's edition with Trump back in the White House, Iran's influence, California wildfires, and a peek at the 2026 elections. Don't miss out!
Magazine
For Commanders fans, the strange feeling of success
For my entire conscious life, being a fan of the team known sequentially as the Redskins, the Washington Football Team, or the Commanders was cosmic punishment. Being…
Beltway Confidential
Bill Gates’s greatest regret is his divorce
At age 69, billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has an impressive, if mixed, résumé. But when you ask him what his biggest regret is, it’s not buddying…
Magazine
How online rage bait made the battle of the sexes a war of attrition
Every time I open X, I’m greeted by a troth of gender war slop. Every day, it’s the same reheated arguments about “body count,” also known as…
Entertainment
Woke entertainers find patriotism tough
Something strange is happening in American media entertainment: Patriotism appears increasingly back in vogue. Recent years have seen the soaring box office success of Top Gun: Maverick…
Columnists
Chevron says its entry to supply AI data centers is ‘win-win’
Chevron New Energies President Jeff Gustavson said the Houston-based energy company’s plans to build natural gas power stations to support U.S. artificial intelligence data center infrastructure are…
In Focus
Trump’s Gaza proposal makes complete sense
On Sunday, President Donald Trump floated a fantastic idea. Arab nations, he noted, should accept Gazans as refugees, a move that “could be temporary or long term.”…
Columnists
Quick turnaround: Trump short-circuits funding controversy
QUICK TURNAROUND: TRUMP SHORT-CIRCUITS FUNDING CONTROVERSY. The flap over the Trump White House’s temporary freeze on some discretionary federal funding was the first controversy of the second Trump…
Columnists
Democrats tiptoe away from their border disaster
Politics means never having to say you’re sorry. When a party turns on its heel and walks away from a policy, it pretends nothing of note is…