Charlotte Lawson

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Reporter at The Dispatch

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The Gramsci Turn

5 days ago | thedispatch.com | Jonah Goldberg |Peter Gattuso |Charlotte Lawson |James Sutton

Responding to Chris Rufo. Published April 18, 2025 In a bonus early Ruminant, Jonah Goldberg responds to Christopher Rufo and his fight to “to recapture the regime and entrench our ideas in the public sphere,” using 20th-century Marxist Antonio Gramsci’s ideas.
What’s Going on in the Bond Market?

1 week ago | thedispatch.com | Charlotte Lawson |James Sutton |Peter Gattuso |Scott Lincicome

Economics ‘This sort of asset is no longer risk-free.’ By , , and Published April 17, 2025 Scroll to the comments section Audio versions are only available to subscribers of The Dispatch. Join Today! to listen to this post.
Precedent Trump

1 week ago | thedispatch.com | Jonah Goldberg |Scott Lincicome |Charlotte Lawson |Grayson Logue

Hey, Let’s assume you’re a decent, fairly normal, relatively reasonable, pro-Trump conservative or right-winger. Cue record scratch. I know I’ve lost some of you already. Some folks think, given how his term has unfolded thus far, that to still support Donald Trump makes you a bad person. Well, I think plenty of bad people support Trump, but I don’t think supporting Trump automatically makes you a bad person. It can also just mean you’re wrong. So, let’s press on.
Meta’s Antitrust Trial Kicks Off

1 week ago | thedispatch.com | Charlotte Lawson |Grayson Logue |Peter Gattuso |Cole Murphy

By , , and Published April 16, 2025 Scroll to the comments section Audio versions are only available to subscribers of The Dispatch. Join Today! to listen to this post. Happy Wednesday! In what’s being described as a “Passover miracle,” Billy—a Cavalier King Charles spaniel who was abducted from Nahal Oz during Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attack—was found in southern Gaza last week.
Will 2026 Be a 2020 Redux?

1 week ago | thedispatch.com | Michael Warren |Nick Catoggio |Greg Lukianoff |Charlotte Lawson

Take a hypothetical walk with me about 18 months into the future to November 3, 2026. Americans (well, likely less than half of the eligible voting population) have just voted in a hard-fought midterm election to determine which party will control the House of Representatives. Despite economic uncertainty and the expectation that the incumbent president’s party typically takes a hit in a midterm, the outcome between Democrats and Republicans is still too close to call.
Radio Silence

1 week ago | thedispatch.com | James Kirchick |Kevin Williamson |Jonah Goldberg |Charlotte Lawson

World Events Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty helped win the Cold War. It still has an important role to play. Published April 15, 2025 Scroll to the comments section Audio versions are only available to subscribers of The Dispatch. Join Today! to listen to this post.
El Salvador’s Strongman Forges Closer Ties with Trump

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Charlotte Lawson |James Sutton

From the The Morning Dispatch on The DispatchHappy Tuesday! It appears that Bay Area techies are trying to find love by leaving notes in the seats of self-driving taxis. We sense the next Netflix rom-com in the making. Quick Hits: Today’s Top StoriesEl Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said Monday that he would not return Kilmar Abrego Garcia—an immigrant who was deported to an El Salvador prison due to an “administrative error” last month—to the United States.
Assessing Claims Made in Alex Jones’ Interview With Tucker Carlson

1 week ago | thedispatch.com | Peter Gattuso |Alex Demas |Grayson Logue |Charlotte Lawson

Alex Jones, a right-wing conspiracy theorist and founder of Infowars, appeared on the Tucker Carlson Show, the former Fox News host’s video podcast, last Wednesday. The pair made misleading and outright false statements throughout their two-hour discussion on topics ranging from 9/11, the Ukrainian government, U.S. intelligence on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and nonprofit organizations formed in the aftermath of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings.
About Those ‘Manly’ Jobs

1 week ago | thedispatch.com | Kevin Williamson |Charlotte Lawson |Cole Murphy |James Sutton

There was more heavy industry than you might expect in Lubbock, Texas, in the 1970s and 1980s, when I was growing up there. It was pretty unglamorous stuff: things related to cotton processing, a dogfood plant, etc. The crown jewels were a Frito-Lay factory, which could smell really good or really … not good … depending on what was being made at the time, and a Texas Instruments home-computer factory, which produced the once-ubiquitous TI99 at a rate of 5,000 a day.
A U.S.-China Trade War Brews

1 week ago | thedispatch.com | Charlotte Lawson |Cole Murphy |James Sutton

Economics Beijing vows to ‘never yield’ amid the barrage of U.S. tariffs. By , , and Published April 14, 2025 Scroll to the comments section Audio versions are only available to subscribers of The Dispatch. Join Today! to listen to this post. Happy Monday! Some scientists have claimed that those “dire wolves” were actually nota resuscitation of an extinct species. Jurassic Park averted? Pennsylvania Gov.