Nick Catoggio is a staff writer at The Dispatch and is based in Texas. Prior to joining the company in 2022, he spent 16 years gradually alienating a populist readership at Hot Air. When Nick isn’t ...

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

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 ...

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

There’s a raging debate within the Democratic Party, mostly beneath the surface, about whether President Trump should be ...

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 ...

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.

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

Israel-U.S. relations have experienced extraordinary ups and downs over the past four years, from a historic joint campaign against Iran to a new low in Israel’s standing among the American public and ...

Grayson Logue is a staff writer for The Dispatch and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Prior to joining the company in 2023, he worked in political risk consulting, helping advise Fortune 50 ...

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