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6 days ago | 
thedispatch.com | Charlotte Lawson |James Sutton |Cole Murphy
Society & Culture ‘Republicans can fairly say this is all hard-earned skepticism.’ By , , and Published May 8, 2025 Scroll to the comments section Audio versions are only available to subscribers of The Dispatch. Join Today! to listen to this post. Happy Thursday! Don’t show up to Mother’s Day brunch this weekend empty-handed; give mom the gift of fact-based news and expert analysis that respects her intelligence and her time.
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1 week ago | 
thedispatch.com | Charlotte Lawson |Cole Murphy |James Sutton
By , , and Published May 6, 2025 Scroll to the comments section Audio versions are only available to subscribers of The Dispatch. Join Today! to listen to this post. Happy Tuesday! The defending champion Celtics lost a home thriller last night—and Boston haters everywhere rejoice.
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1 week ago | 
thedispatch.com | Cole Murphy |Peter Gattuso
Happy Friday! The authors of today’s newsletter left this intro slot blank, so the editor decided to use the space to remind readers that the Chicago Cubs are 19-13 and have the best run differential in the league, despite having the hardest strength of schedule through the first month of the season.
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1 week ago | 
ij.org | Sarah Isgur |Charlotte Lawson |Cole Murphy
Plus: Things got heated at SCOTUS. By and Published May 1, 2025 Sarah Isgur and David French explain the upcoming Supreme Court decision regarding the public chartering of religious schools and how it might implicate the establishment clause. The Agenda:—Justice Gorsuch is the new Justice Kennedy—More on SCOTUS lie-gate—Magic and Larry Bird (Lisa Blatt and Roman Martinez)—Lisa Blatt’s apology—FBI knocks down the wrong door—Chartering religious schools—What is a charter school?
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2 weeks ago | 
thedispatch.com | Cole Murphy |Peter Gattuso
Is This What Trump Voters Wanted? Nearly 100 days into his second term as president, things are clearly not going great for Donald Trump. His administration’s first major domestic undertaking, the dubious plan to cut government waste through the Department of Government Efficiency, appears to be rapidly losing support after months of goal-post moving and results embellishing.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Cole Murphy |Peter Gattuso
From the The Morning Dispatch on The DispatchHappy Tuesday! Join us tonight for a special members-only Dispatch Live, where we’ll discuss our recent acquisition of SCOTUSblog and chat with newest Dispatcher Amy Howe about the Supreme Court. Tune in at 8 p.m. ET.
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3 weeks ago | 
thedispatch.com | Charlotte Lawson |Cole Murphy
By and Published April 22, 2025 Scroll to the comments section Audio versions are only available to subscribers of The Dispatch. Join Today! to listen to this post. Happy Tuesday! In a new study published in Current Biology, researchers observed wild chimpanzees getting together to share African breadfruit, which, once fermented, contains a measurable alcohol content. It seems even our ape brethren like to loosen up sometimes.
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3 weeks ago | 
thedispatch.com | Charlotte Lawson |James Sutton |Peter Gattuso |Cole Murphy |Peter Gattuso
General Catching you up on the weekend’s news. By , , , and Published April 21, 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! We hope all who celebrated yesterday had a blessed Easter! We’ll keep today’s newsletter short in light of the holiday.
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4 weeks 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.
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1 month 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.
