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Anne Applebaum on Trump’s ‘empire of grift’— and who benefits from it (opens the original)
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In a week when world leaders descended upon New York for the UN General Assembly, President Trump took the podium to threaten to “annihilate” Iran while laying claim to “the spoils” of Venezuela. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Anne Applebaum offers a framework for understanding these seemingly disparate threads of Trump’s second-term foreign policy: an “unholy alliance” of ideologues and kleptocrats reshaping the post-World War II order.Applebaum’s “Empire of Grift,” details how far-rig
Doom and…boom (opens the original)
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This was a good week for Federal Reserve independence.President Trump has made no secret of his desire for dramatically lower interest rates. But this week, his own handpicked Fed chair, Kevin Warsh, led a unanimous vote to raise them—responding to inflation rather than presidential pressure.So what does that tell us about the Fed? And what should Americans make of a bond market where rising yields are making mortgages, borrowing and servicing our nearly $40 trillion national debt increasingly e
The Forces That Form Us (opens the original)
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Today marks two months since the day my father died.I delivered this eulogy at his memorial service nearly one month ago, on August 20th, at St. John’s Cathedral in Denver, Colorado.The other evening, I was rewatching Ted Lasso with my daughter when a line gave me a full abdominal workout from uncontrollable laughter. Ted says, “Boy, I love meeting people’s moms. It’s like reading an instruction manual as to why they’re nuts.”Subscribe no
Governor Spencer Cox on defusing America’s crisis of polarization (opens the original)
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This week marks one year exactly after the assassination of Charlie Kirk. It also marks the 25th anniversary of 9/11—perhaps the last time Americans truly set aside their political differences and came together as a country.In this moment of intense polarization and reflection, who better to bring on than Utah Governor Spencer Cox, who has been actively searching for an off-ramp from this cycle of vitriol and political violence plaguing America (indeed, “Off Ramp” is the title of his new book).
Salman Rushdie’s second act (opens the original)
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After Salman Rushdie was nearly stabbed to death in 2022, he woke up in the hospital three days later and learned that he might live. He had some 15 knife wounds across his neck, body, and eye, and yet his first thought was: “We’ve got to document this.”Rushdie has lived under threat of death since 1989, when Iran’s Ayatollah issued a fatwa against him for his now infamous novel, The Satanic Verses. The fatwa completely upended his life, but after more than three decades, the threat seemed to ha
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