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Monday, August 17
Simple Reason Gas Prices Could Cost GOP in November
Lillie Boudreaux, MS Now
El-Sayed and the Ongoing Conflict Within Democratic Party
Byron York, DC Examiner
Democrats' Woke Era Was Crazy, But It's Also Fixable
Luke Winkie, Slate
USS Lincoln: Performance for the Ages
Brad Cooper, Wall Street Journal
Iran and Trump's Midterm Malaise
David Smith, The Guardian
Wait...How Much Oil Is Actually Leaving the Persian Gulf?
David Goldman, CNN
What Our Spies Cut Out of the China File
Peter Navarro, Washington Examiner
The Cost of Keeping China Out
Cowhey & Rithmire, Foreign Affairs
Dem Governors Get an F for Blocking Education Freedom
Glenn Youngkin, NY Post
U.S. Universities Are Sliding Into Decline
Jon Marcus, Washington Monthly
Head Start Has Never Worked
Heather Mac Donald, City Journal
Fake News: The Long History
John Hamilton, RealClearPolitics
What Happens When Millennials Take Over?
Kristen Anderson, Substack
Why Texas May Soon Have More People Than California
Joel Kotkin, New York Post
Housing Bill Trump Shrugged Off Is Half the Answer 
Dave Uejio, Washington Monthly
Pregnant in Public
Theresa Braid, Commonplace
Europe's Existential Crisis
Kenneth Timmerman, American Greatness
'28 Dems (FT): Harris 26, Newsom 15, Buttigieg 13, AOC 9, Shapiro 8 | '28 GOP
Tuesday, August 18
Florida's New Identity as a Republican Juggernaut
Patricia Mazzei, New York Times


'Democrats Should Be Thanking ICE'
M.D. Kittle, The Federalist
GOP Changes Minds About the Reliability of Crime Data
Steve Benen, MS Now
Trump, GOP Have an Election Message That Could Work
Larry Kudlow, New York Sun
The Last Big Primary Night of the Year
David Dayen, American Prospect
Democrat Divisions on Display in Austin
Bevan, Cannon & Walworth, RCP on SiriusXM
SCOTUS Should Allow Construction at the WH To Proceed
Hugh Hewitt, FOX News
No, Sen. Murphy, I Don't Want To Join Your Cult
Jerusalem Demsas, Substack
Heroes Aren't A**holes
Richard Porter, RealClearPolitics
Lessons for Progressives From Woke 1.0
Nesrine Malik, The Guardian
Making Americans Healthier Again
Kevin Roberts, The American Mind
How Protein Ate Our Grocery Stores
Maya Vinokour, The Nation
Pritzker Talks Affordability. His Tollway Wants Higher Tolls
Matt Paprocki, RCP
Even College Students Have Stopped Hanging Out
Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic
Drink the Wine
Brad Todd, Substack
How Hollywood Devoured Hayden Panettiere
Mary Harrington, UnHerd
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Should Vote To Protect Women's Sport
Carrie Lukas, RCP
Wednesday, August 19
Florida Dems Hand Republicans a November Gift
Susan Crabtree, RealClearPolitics


8 Takeaways & Surprises From Tuesday's Primaries
Armus, et al, Washington Post
Woke 1.0 Canceled America. Woke 2.0 Will Destroy It.
Sasha Stone, Substack
The Last Stand of the Corporate Democrats
Robert Reich, Substack
How Radical Will the Democrats Get?
William Galston, Wall Street Journal
How I Became a Subaru Socialist
Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker
In Common Sense vs. Crazy, Dems Lose Every Time
Rep. Mary Miller, DC Examiner
How the GOP Can Pull Off an Upset in Minnesota
Matt Cookson, RealClearPolitics
Trump's Menacing but Dumb Plan To Break the Midterms
Elie Honig, Substack
Call to Power: Islamic Leaders See Ballot Box as Path to Paradise
Paul Sperry, RCI
The AI We're Building Needs a Kill Switch
Reps. Moran & Lieu, Newsweek
The Race To Build U.S.' First Nuclear Reactor in a Generation
Jennifer Hiller, WSJ
Arday's Final Self-Delusion
Graeme Wood, The Atlantic
The Sanctification of Jason Arday
Tom Slater, Spiked
Fake News, Part II: Faking for Fun
John Maxwell Hamilton, RealClearPolitics
Only Fauci Knows – And He's Not Telling
Cory Franklin, JohnKassNews
As Bill Clinton Turns 80, a Searching Look Back at His Life
John Harris, Politico
Thursday, August 20
Trump's Iran Struggle Comes Through on Campaign Stump
Byron York, DC Examiner


Can Michigan Democrats Find Peace Over the Middle East?
Ben Jacobs, Slate
Iran Has Lost Significant Control of the Strait of Hormuz
David Goldman, CNN
Good Riddance to Sen. Cornyn and His Democrat Staffers
Kurt Schlichter, Townhall
Was Graham's Dumb Debate Answer Just an Act?
Ed Kilgore, New York Magazine
Alaska in Jeopardy for GOP?
Bevan, Cannon & Walworth, RealClearPolitics on SiriusXM
As Chicago Suffers, City Found $639.6 Million for Illegals
Corey Brooks, FOX News
The Abandoned Order
Mark Leonard, Foreign Affairs
This Is the Best 'Hard Goods' Boom in Decades
Larry Kudlow, New York Sun
Strange Politics Behind the AI Backlash
Eric Levitz, Vox
Anthropic CEO's Wife Courted Epstein To Invest in Porn Site
Lucas Nolan, Breitbart
Credit Card Operative Helping Shape Dem Primaries
Goldstein & Dayen, Am. Prospect
Let Americans Keep the Savings They Find
Wendy Barnes, RealClearPolitics
Time for Accountability at National Academies of Science
Jason Isaac, Daily Caller
The Case for Chilling Out About Birth Rates
Idrees Kahloon, The Atlantic
To Rebuild Trust, Americans Must Get Back in the Same Room
Melissa Giller, RCP
She Killed Her Three Children. Is She Guilty?
Kat Rosenfield, The Free Press
Friday, August 21
Harmeet Dhillon on DOJ's Election Integrity Efforts
Bevan, et al., RCP on SiriusXM


What Dems Will Investigate If They Win in November
Kevin Frey, MS Now
Alaska's Ranked-Choice Voting Travesty
Kimberley Strassel, Wall Street Journal
Inside the DSA's Ambitious Push to Remake the Democratic Party
Nik Popli, Time
'Democratic Party' & 'DSA' Are Now Officially Synonymous
Bob Maistros, I&I
Two Americas: Anti-ICE Fighters vs. Bootlickers
Whitney Curry Wimbish, Am Prospect
Woke 2.0 & the False Promise of Socialist Division
Stephen D. Cook, RealClearPolitics
Democrats' On-Again, Off-Again Class Politics
Harold Meyerson, American Prospect
Spanberger's VA Places Illegals First, Victims Last
Kelly Sadler, Washington Times
'No One Cares About Crazy People' Will Change You
Melinda Henneberger, RCP
How Is Lindsay Clancy More of a Victim Than Her Dead Kids?
Bethany Mandel, NYP
American Democracy Has Been Killed
Edward H. Williams, The Nation
Amy Coney Barrett Defies Easy Categorization
Kimberly Ross, Washington Examiner
The FCC's War on ABC Has Gone Too Far
Daniel Idfresne, RealClearPolitics
Bari Weiss Blew Up 60 Minutes. Now She Has To Fix It
Charlotte Klein, NY Magazine
Fake News, Part III: Paper Bullets
John Maxwell Hamilton, RealClearPolitics
Why I Resigned as a Sports Columnist After 11 Years
Matt Calkins, Substack
'28 NH Dem (St. Anselm): Buttigieg 25, AOC 17, Kelly 12, Ossoff 12, Newsom 7
Saturday, August 22
Welfare Reform Act at 30: Work Is Still the Answer
Newt Gingrich, Washington Post
Workforce Pell's Missing Rudder
Bruno Manno, Washington Monthly
In Some States, Disparate-Impact Policies Hanging On
Neetu Arnold, City Journal
Trump 'Stuck,' Iran Happy To Crush His Midterm Dreams
Robert Tait, The Guardian
Bad News for Iran's Bad Guys and a Wake-Up Call for World
James Carafano, 1945
Prince Harry Said Returning to Britain Was 'Impossible'
Kara Kennedy, The Free Press
Britain Hands Out 'Rape Leaflets' for Illegal Immigrants
Brendan O'Neill, NY Post
Despite Primary Whiffs, Poll Haters Are Still Wrong
Ed Kilgore, New York Magazine
Graham Does Damage Control
Bevan, Cannon & Walworth, RealClearPolitics on SiriusXM
The Rot Hollowing Out the Democratic Party
Harrison Berger, The American Conservative
Rep. Nixon's Stunning Florida Senate Win
Robert Kuttner, American Prospect
Joe Rogan Slams Marxist Ideology: 'It Sucks'
Ashleigh Fields, The Hill
Michigan's Energy Abundance Is on the Ballot
Samantha Fillmore, RealClearEnergy
Economists Should Be Worried About Birth Rates
Noah Smith, Substack
How Palantir Co-Founder's Crusade Spread in U.S.
Elizabeth Dwoskin, Washington Post
America 250 Goes to the Track
Daniel Goodman, Washington Examiner
RIP to Dulles Airport People Mover; Everybody Hated You
Christina Cauterucci, Slate
Sunday, August 23
The Hatred That Broke American Politics
James Loeffler, The Atlantic
Jamie Raskin’s Trump Obsession Trumps Antisemitism
Roger Kimball, Am Greatness
Why Dems Still Have a Shot at Winning the Senate
Thomas & Hughes, WSJ
El-Sayed Energizes Arabs and Muslims in Michigan
Minnah Arshad, The Guardian
Dems Need To Stop Whitewashing Abdul El-Sayed's Extremist Hate
New York Post
Even AOC Thinks 'Woke 1' Was Crazy
Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times
Vance Returns to His Hometown, Champions Working Class
David Deavel, AMAC
Where's the Beef...From? Trump's Meat Plan Is a Mess
Rex Huppke, USA Today
Trump Should Help Struggling Farmers Grow Their Herds
Sean Davis, The Federalist
The Hubris of Donald Trump
Hayes Brown, MS Now
A Democrat’s Road to Disillusionment
David Garrow, Washington Free Beacon
A DSA Leader Going Viral for All the Wrong Reasons
Finn Hartnett, The New Republic
Battle of the Populists: MAGA vs. the DSA
Thaddeus McCotter, American Greatness
MAGA, the DSA and the Politics of No Competition
Katherine Gehl, RealClearPolitics
Justice for Lindsay Clancy?
Shalia Dewan, New York Times
Should Lindsay Clancy Be in Prison or a Mental Institution?
Megyn Kelly, YouTube
How I Became the Scapegoat in the Jason Arday Affair
Nathan Cofnas, WSJ
TDIH - Aug 23rd 2nd Term Job Approval: Trump 39.5 | Obama 41.7 | Bush 39.4


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