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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.
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2 weeks ago | 
thedispatch.com | Nick Catoggio |Charlotte Lawson |Charles Hilu |Peter Gattuso
What would happen if it turned out that the president had bought a million dollars worth of call options for the S&P 500 index just before announcing a “pause” on most of his “Liberation Day” tariffs? That’s no idle hypothetical. Some unknown person or persons did buy a bunch of those options on Wednesday about 10 minutes before the White House canceled the global thermonuclear trade war it had just launched.
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2 weeks ago | 
thedispatch.com | Charlotte Lawson |Charles Hilu |Peter Gattuso |Jonah Goldberg
Policy House Speaker Mike Johnson punts a Trump-backed budget blueprint. By , , and Published April 10, 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! Many thanks to the more than 1,400 of you who participated in our annual TMD March Madness pool—and congratulations to Bradley H., who had the winning bracket! We’ll be in touch about your prize soon.
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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Michael Reneau |Peter Gattuso |Kevin Williamson |Greg Fournier
Claims of genocide underscore the country’s uncertain future. Published March 16, 2025 Michael Reneau speaks with Nadine Maenza, president of the IRF Secretariat, about the complex situation in Syria following the recent overthrow of Bashar al-Assad. They discuss the religious and sectarian dynamics at play, the hopes and fears of various religious communities, and the challenges facing the country’s new leadership under President Ahmad al-Sharaa.
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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Nick Catoggio |John Gustavsson |Peter Gattuso |Charles Hilu
Do nationalists understand that other countries’ citizens also feel national pride? Published March 6, 2025 Imagine you’re the leader of a (rapidly imploding) global superpower. There’s a large, resource-rich, strategically important island off your northeast coast. The bad news is that enemies are angling to gain access to it, which would place them on your doorstep militarily.
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2 months ago | 
thedispatch.com | Jonah Goldberg |Kevin Williamson |James Broughel |Peter Gattuso
Their problems run deeper than messaging. Published February 7, 2025 Dear Reader (expect for those of you in a slippery situation), We make fun of Steve Hayes for many things here at The Dispatch. One of them is his dislike of provocative, or even clever, headlines.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
thedispatch.com | Peter Gattuso |Michael Warren |Michael Reneau |Jake Meador
The president made a series of claims that were either false or missing context. Published January 22, 2025 President Donald Trump outlined his vision for his second presidential term Monday in the longest inaugural speech by word count since Herbert Hoover’s address in 1929. However, Trump’s 2,885-word speech included claims that were inaccurate or misleading on immigration, energy and environmental policy, tariffs and international trade, and the Panama Canal.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
thedispatch.com | Jonah Goldberg |Peter Gattuso |Kevin Williamson |Gary Schmitt
On the president’s unserious declaration that the Equal Rights Amendment is suddenly law. Published January 17, 2025 Dear Reader (including those of you with varied interests), Greetings from I-70. I had all sorts of plans for today’s G-File, though none particularly good. When you’re basically spending all day driving, you take inspiration where you can find it.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
thedispatch.com | Peter Gattuso |Charlotte Lawson |Grayson Logue |James Sutton
With the Biden administration now days away from handing over the White House keys to President-elect Donald Trump, supporters of the president have taken to social media to tout job growth during his four-year term. Guy Kawasaki, an author and former tech industry venture capitalist, claimed that the number of jobs created under the Biden administration totaled more than under the previous three presidential administrations combined.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
thedispatch.com | Peter Gattuso |Michael Warren |Charlotte Lawson |Grayson Logue
Emergency relief programs are available to disaster victims in addition to the one-time payment. Published January 17, 2025 The Southern California wildfires have destroyed thousands of homes and tens of thousands of people remain under evacuation orders as of Friday, prompting many social media users to speculate whether the current level of federal disaster relief aid is sufficient.
