Politics
Trump DOJ Stonewalls Judge on Deportation Flights
The administration is materially weakening its litigating position in the standoff over Venezuelan nationals. Source link
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Business
How Startups Master Financial Planning: Strategies For Sustainable Growth
Innovative ideas and dynamic teams are not enough to successfully scale a startup. Those operating in the B2B sector must manage financial…
Politics
If AOC Is the Democratic Future, the Party Is Even Worse Off Than We Think
There is no woke policy she doesn’t support. Source link
News
To Save TikTok, ByteDance Must Go
A deal that keeps ByteDance in control of TikTok wouldn’t just miss the mark on addressing national security concerns — it would directly…
News
California’s War on Farmers Made Eggs Even Scarcer
Proposition 12 certainly didn’t help alleviate the cost crisis. Source link
Politics
Trump Is Right to Target the Houthis
Restraint has resulted in a disruption to international shipping and an unmolested campaign of hijacking, marauding, and terrorism. Source…
News
Pedro Lemebel, a Radical Voice for Calamitous Times
These days, when an American President has decreed that “there are only two genders: male and female” and issued a slew of executive…
Politics
MAGA’s Crisis of Confidence in America
In a case of unilateral disarmament in the propaganda war, the Trump administration functionally mothballed the U.S. Agency for Global…
News
Reagan at Reykjavik
An insider’s account of how the president’s meeting with Gorbachev shaped the end of the Cold War. Source link
Culture
“Perfection” Is the Perfect Novel for an Age of Aimless Aspiration
In the fall of 1965, a twenty-nine-year-old Georges Perec published his début novel. Short and strange, “Things: A Story of the Sixties”…
Politics
Commentary: Elon Musk brought a Silicon Valley mindset to Trump's Washington. It's been a disaster
Washington has never seen anything like the rule-breaking, power-taking, government-torching, protocol-scorching force of delighted havoc…
News
La Tête d’Or and the Revenge of the American Steak House
By a long shot, the most exciting new steak house in New York right now is La Tête d’Or by Daniel, the latest restaurant from the…
News
Graydon Carter’s Wild Ride Through a Golden Age of Magazines
At Spy, Carter had mocked Vanity Fair, which he had found breathy and incestuous. (“In Vanity Fair, it’s sometimes difficult to tell who…
Business
Small Business Loans: The New Rules
Getting a small business loan can feel overwhelming with all the rules and requirements out there. But understanding what lenders want and…
News
The Parental Panic of “Adolescence”
Minutes into the new Netflix drama “Adolescence,” a thirteen-year-old boy is arrested for murder. Early in the morning, half a dozen…
Culture
The Strange Experimental-Theatre Experience Giving New Meaning to “Show, Don’t Tell”
Somewhere in London’s theatre district—I can’t say where—there’s a nondescript office building with a neon sign in the lobby that reads,…
Business
Tech stocks keep tumbling this year. Here's why
When President Trump returned to the White House, tech executives from Apple, OpenAI, Oracle and other companies pledged to create…
Culture
Uneven Revivals of “A Streetcar Named Desire” and “Ghosts”
In early 1947, the playwright Tennessee Williams wrote to the producer Irene Selznick because Elia Kazan, who had been tapped to direct…
News
The Deliriously Witty Spy Games of “Black Bag”
The marvellous new espionage thriller “Black Bag” is, among other things, a sparkling ode to a happy marriage. I’m referring, in part, to…
News
The Two-Thousand-Year-Old Virgins
How Christianity blurred the line between celibacy and androgyny. Source link
Politics
Contributor: Why the Trump administration is easing up on crypto crime at exactly the wrong moment
The Securities and Exchange Commission is scaling back its cryptocurrency enforcement unit. Why does this matter? Because crime pervades…