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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Nick Catoggio |Peter Gattuso |Jonah Goldberg |Alison Somin
Sacrificing for the greater good. Published March 12, 2025 Imagine you owned a car company, and that company was experiencing a bit of an image problem. There are two ways you might go about fixing it. One is to stop doing the things that caused the problem. Stop giving wink-wink Nazi salutes, stop calling supporters of Ukraine “traitors,” stop gutting federal agencies to no obvious end except as trollish culture war theater.
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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Jonah Goldberg |Alison Somin |Michael Warren |Nick Catoggio
When terrible people hide behind the First Amendment. Published March 12, 2025 I am trying to figure out what I think about the case of Mahmoud Khalil, the anti-Israel and, yes, pro-Hamas activist arrested and threatened with deportation by the Trump administration. Nick Catoggio had a good rundown of how to think about this legal and political Rorschach test. Is Khalil an unjustly persecuted “free speech martyr”? Is he a terror-supporting radical deserving of deportation?
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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Michael Warren |Peter Gattuso |Jonah Goldberg |Alison Somin
What a week, huh? Yes, Liz Lemon, it’s only Wednesday, so there’s still a couple days left to see more fluctuation in both the financial markets and the U.S. trade policy. The indirect relationship is clear, though: When tariffs (or the threat of them) go up, the markets go down. And there’s a lot of downturn as President Donald Trump continues to embrace more and harsher protective trade actions.
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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Jonah Goldberg |Peter Gattuso |Alison Somin |Nick Catoggio
The Wegmans trade deficit. Published March 12, 2025 There’s a whole lot of red on various stock market indices this week, so Jonah Goldberg has conscripted Michael Strain, director of economic policy at the American Enterprise Institute, to talk money. Topics include: the likelihood of recession, tumultuous trade policy, and Jonah’s crusade against the cryptocurrency reserve.
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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Alison Somin |Adam White |Kevin Williamson |Jonah Goldberg
“She’s a big problem” blared a tweet featuring a photograph of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Given the opposition she faced from Democratic senators and the broader left during her confirmation hearings in 2020, one might suspect that the post came from a progressive critic.
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1 month ago | 
asianamericans.einnews.com | Alison Somin |Adam White |Kevin Williamson |Jonah Goldberg
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Kevin Williamson |Alex Demas |Alison Somin |Luis Parrales
One of the ironies of contemporary politics is that Donald Trump offers himself as the champion of American interests against China when Donald Trump personifies the Chinese ethos. Consider the three most important parallels: Both Trump and Beijing are, fundamentally, whiners. They complain endlessly about being singled out and treated—in Trump’s favorite words—“very unfairly,” as though fairness and fair play were consistent with their own values rather than perfectly opposed to them.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Mary Trimble |Grayson Logue |Peter Gattuso |Alison Somin
Happy Monday! “The Star-Spangled Banner” has been reimagined in any number of ways—some excellent, some very, very bad—since, in a rare Woodrow Wilson win, he made it the country’s national anthem in 1916. But we have to admit we didn’t see professional whistler Chris Ullman’s rendition coming.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Jamie Weinstein |Alison Somin |Joseph Polidoro |Rachael Larimore
Jamie Weinstein is the host of Monday’s episode of The Dispatch Podcast, based in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining The Dispatch, he was the host of The Jamie Weinstein Show.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Alison Somin |Jeffrey Bilbro |Jacob Becker |Keith E. Whittington
The Biden administration recently published a comprehensive Title IX rule that constricts due process protections for students accused of sexual misconduct and reinterprets sex discrimination to reach sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination. Many in the media have portrayed the controversy over this rule as a conflict between cultural conservatives and progressives. That story is true, but there is another story as well.
