Obama’s joke was solid, Tyler Cowen is wrong about ‘Who’s on First?’, and comedy doesn’t need to hold up to logic.

While DOJ monitors have observed elections for civil rights violations since 1965, recent remarks from DOJ leadership about ...

It’s beginning to feel spooky in Washington, D.C., and not just because of Halloween. The 2026 midterms are almost here, and Dispatch co-founders Steve Hayes and Jonah Goldberg are ready to separate ...

Abdul El-Sayed and Vivek Ramaswamy have a lot in common. Both were born less than a year apart and raised in the Rust Belt by ...

After backing Trump in three elections, Macomb County is a spot where Mike Rogers needs to generate Republican enthusiasm.

Plus: The Justice Department sues to block certification of Alaska’s Senate race, the Pentagon readies options for renewed ...

I cannot accept the excessive centralization, the current disciplinary state, as they call it now, of liberty.” The group was ...

Plus: Anthropic files for an IPO, Saudi Arabia and its defense-pact partners hold talks in Tehran, and a Chinese AI girl group pregnancy scandal.

Editor’s Note: This essay was originally published at O. Alan Noble’s You Are Not Your Own Substack and is reprinted with ...

They never knew the America that made plausible what Father John Courtney Murray called “the great act of trust”—that is, ...

Greetings from Michigan, where yesterday I watched Vice President J.D. Vance rally Republican voters for the second time this week. On Monday, Vance and I were both in Montana. Yes, you read that ...

As the clip of Obama’s joke circulated, the MAGA commentariat began to hum with populist indignation. “Classic Obama snobbery ...