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4 weeks ago | 
thedispatch.com | Alex Demas |Clare Coffey |Emily Oster |Michael Warren
WASHINGTON, D.C.—It’s a weird time to live in the nation’s capital. Well, at least a weirder time than usual. Concentrating America’s political industry along a small stretch of the Potomac was always bound to create an odd culture—young, highly transient, hypereducated, and vocationally obsessive.
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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Peter Gattuso |Charles Hilu |David Drucker |Clare Coffey
Days after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky left the White House following a heated meeting with President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance, supporters of the Trump administration have recirculated a months-old video message from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard impugning Zelensky.
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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Kevin Williamson |Clare Coffey |Grayson Logue |Knox Thames
There are ways to address our dire fiscal situation. Budgeting tricks and pseudo-theories are not among them. Published March 3, 2025 On the subject of cooking up some new budget gimmicks to hide the actual costs of current Republican fiscal incontinence, Sen. Ron Johnson said: “We need to avoid a massive, automatic tax increase,” as the tax cuts in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act expire.
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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Jamie Weinstein |Clare Coffey |John Mccormack
The AfD’s recent electoral performance marks a new era for far-right politics in Germany. Published March 3, 2025 James Kirchick, author of The End of Europe, joins Jamie Weinstein to discuss Vice President J.D. Vance’s controversial speech at the Munich Security Conference, the recent German elections, and the rise of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Grayson Logue |Jonah Goldberg |Clare Coffey
Grousing over liberal bias in public media isn’t new, but the FCC and Congress are applying fresh scrutiny. Published March 3, 2025 Scroll to the comments section Audio versions are only available to subscribers of The Dispatch. Join Today! to listen to this post. Liberals and conservatives have debated government support for public broadcasting since the 1967 Public Broadcasting Act was passed more than 50 years ago.
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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Clare Coffey |Jeffrey Bilbro |Stefanie Sanford |Will Rinehart
The Monday Essay The online oasis that is the YouTube comments section. Published March 3, 2025 Scroll to the comments section Audio versions are only available to subscribers of The Dispatch. Join Today! to listen to this post. The internet was probably never a net pleasant or edifying place.
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Dec 26, 2024 | 
fastcompany.com | Clare Coffey
Here’s my Christmas wish this year: I wish everybody would just quit redesigning everything. Take Jaguar’s recent highly publicized rebranding. I’m still trying to figure out what that bevy of angular models prancing around in a circa-2008 iPod ad palette has to do with the company’s commitment to going all-EV in 2025.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
thenewatlantis.com | Clare Coffey |Joel Kotkin |Joseph Lawler
Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version Packing up my grandparents’ suburban house this summer, I was confronted with an unsettling and alien phenomenon: a place I loved, that I considered my own, that I would have wanted to keep — but where I could not imagine living. Yet this situation is considered normal, even ideal, in American life.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
thebulwark.com | Clare Coffey
MARTHA STEWART HAS THE PERFECT Thanksgiving cocktail for me. So, as far as I can tell, does everyone else. For the last few weeks, every food-and-wine-adjacent publication has been digging up its “30 Best Thanksgiving Cocktails” listicle and sending it around. There are tips for making them for a crowd. There is advice on how to choose a signature drink. There are recommended food pairings.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
plough.com | Clare Coffey
Traditions are hard to see from the inside. Only in adolescence, with its first stirrings of separation and evaluation, did I notice that our grace before meals was different from other families’. We had the standard default Catholic grace – short, sweet, and unchanging – recited in unison:Bless us, Oh Lord, and these thy gifts, which we are about to receive from thy bounty, through Christ our Lord, Amen.
