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EXPLAINED: Ross douthat - The Real Truth

‘Popesplaining’ Vance out of depth in argument over whether Iran is a just war

Trump administration has riled head of Catholic church over use of theology to justify conflict in Iran

The Guardian - UK

Tradwives Are Fighting the Cultural Stigma Around Being a Homemaker. That Makes Them Good Feminists.

Tradwives are fighting the cultural stigma that still remains around being a homemaker. That makes them damn good feminists.

Reason

Everybody panic – the workplace has become too ‘feminized’!

This week, Mexico’s president was groped in public. But a New York Times podcast is fretting about excessive wokeness

The Guardian - US

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What I Expect from the Court's Upcoming Term

Why I'm (mildly) optimistic about the Court's confrontation with presidential power

Reason

Donald Trump and Peter Thiel Are Using AI To Supercharge the Surveillance State

Peter Thiel warns of a pending one-world totalitarian government—while himself pushing to supercharge the surveillance state.

Reason

Peter Thiel Says AI Is Like the Internet in the Late '90s — 'More Than a Nothing Burger' But 'Less Than a Total Transformation'

If you've been waiting for A.I. to launch us into a Jetsons-style utopia where Martian real estate is booming, Peter Thiel's here to lower your expectations — with his usual dry bite.

Benzinga

Ross Douthat on Digital Alienation, Birth Rates, and Demographic Collapse

"I like Italy. I like South Korea. I enjoy the existence of distinctive human cultures. I would prefer that these cultures and countries not disappear," the New York Times columnist tells Reason.

Reason

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What J.D. Vance Gets Wrong About Judicial Deference to Executive Power

The federal courts are supposed to be a bulwark against presidential overreach, not a rubber stamp.

Reason

Ross Douthat: Why Digital Life Threatens Freedom and Family

The New York Times columnist warns that digital life may be eroding the cultural foundations needed to sustain meaning, family, and community.

Reason

Pope Francis Has Died

Plus: Ross Douthat on technological change, Trump on a possible Jerome Powell firing, and more...

Reason

Trump's "bad manners undermine" his goal

Author Robert Kaplan explains Trump's beef with NATO: "A fairer society will also be the most militarily dynamic"

Salon

Bad Candidates Can't Fix Bad Politics

Voters say they want to "stop the madness." Expect the madness to continue.

Reason

JD Vance’s debate performance was ‘hated by hardcore MAGA social media,’ ex-Republican strategist says

A Republican strategist believes Trump’s running mate used the debate as a ‘personal rehabilitation campaign aimed at 2028’

The Independent UK

The Chaos Election

If our politics is increasingly determined by random twists of fate, we should invest less power in the politicians who ultimately luck into office.

Reason

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The Defiant Trump Image That Made Critics Join the Cult

How a single photograph transformed Trump into a mythical leader for some critics and supporters alike.

Reason

Prediction: Sorry Democrats, Biden Isn't Going Anywhere

Biden wants to retain his power. Most political leaders do!

The Independent UK

Donald Trump may be stuck in a Manhattan courtroom, but he knows his fave legal analysts

Donald Trump may be stuck in a Manhattan courtroom for his hush money trial, but he knows his favorite television analysts

Evening Standard

OPINION - Falling birth rates and shrinking populations could be worse than climate change — we must prepare for demographic winter

Like an unwanted swallow out of season, the signs are that much of the world is entering a demographic winter with Britain, North America and Europe in the lead.

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January 6 and Insurrection—a Response to Ross Douthat

On Douthat's reasoning, published in the NY Times, Confederate secession wasn't an insurrection either.

Salon

Now Christmas joy is too "woke" for MAGA

When the "war on woke" is over, the only entertainment left for Trump cultists will be Dear Leader's speeches

Reason

How Ranked Choice Voting Would Sort the Republican Primary Field

Trump is still a runaway favorite, even when using a vote-counting technique that's meant to make it more difficult for unpopular candidates to win elections.

Reason

Pot Legalization Is a 'Big Mistake' Only If You Ignore the Value of Freedom and the Injustice of Prohibition

The harm caused by marijuana abuse does not justify reverting to an oppressive policy that criminalized peaceful conduct.

Axios

Musk's magical media-shifting machine

Elon Musk is building a new anti-left media ecosystem almost overnight.

Tribune News Service

John M. Crisp: Who gets to decide when and how we die?

Would it surprise you to learn that more than 10,000 Canadians were put to death by their doctors last year?

France 24

The Republican Party’s Trump problem

The Republicans' disappointing performance in the midterm elections is also a personal defeat for former US president Donald Trump, who had been counting on the success of the candidates he endorsed to launch his own presidential bid next Tuesday. To make matters worse, Ron DeSantis, his potential Republican rival for…

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