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Monday, September 1
Labor Day With Trump, the Most Anti-Union President Ever
Harold Meyerson, TAP
How Trump Is Creating a Brighter Future for Workers
Lori Chavez-DeRemer, FOX News
Has Trump Succeeded in Normalising Autocracy in U.S.?
Andrew Roth, The Guardian
Trump Derangement Syndrome Part III: The Movie
Sasha Stone, Substack
Pritzker Just Set Himself Apart From All Other Dems
Jason Linkins, The New Republic
Dems at Odds With Voters Over Trump's Crime Crackdown
Miranda Devine, NY Post
Why Wes Moore Leaned Into Fight With Trump
Cox & Shepherd, Washington Post
Wes Moore, Professional Leftist
David Bossie, Washington Times
How Democrats Flubbed the Gerrymandering Arms Race
Elie Mystal, The Nation
Unverified Mail Ballots Are Greatest Voting Abuse in World
Stephen Miller, FOX News
Iowa Special Election Offers Winning Blueprint for Dems
Sara Pequeno, USA Today
Discussion of Trans, Mental Illness & Violence Long Overdue
Daniel McCarthy, NYP
RFK Jr. Is Starting a MAHA Food Fight
Erica Pandey, Axios
My Family Went Off Ultra-Processed Foods for a Month
Michaeleen Doucleff, WSJ
Greta Thunberg's Narcissism Knows No Bounds
Stephen Pollard, The Telegraph
GOP Probing Wikipedia, a Longstanding MAGA Target
Ja'han Jones, MSNBC
Why Woke Will Never Truly Die
Patrick West, Spiked
Generic Ballot: Emerson: Tied | Reuters: +4 | YouGov: D+2 | RCP Average: D+2.5
Tuesday, September 2
Drug Companies Must Show mRNA Results to Public
President Trump, Truth Social


We Ran the CDC: RFK, Jr. Is Endangering Every American’s Health
Foege, et al, NYT
Why the FDA Doesn't Support Covid Boosters Forever
Marty Makary, Wall St. Journal
How Trump and Social Media Broke the Bureaucracy
Ben Smith, Semafor
Dems Are in a Deep Hole, Can't Seem To Stop Digging
Nicole Russell, USA Today
How Dems Win: More Bernie & AOC, Less Kamala Harris
Ancona & Lake, USA Today
Mamdani Fans Have No Clue of the Horror Socialists Unleash
Wai Wah Chin, NYP
How Mamdani Escaped Politics as Usual
Rajendra & Vilkomerson, In These Times
Zohran Mamdani's Father Wants To Dismantle America
John Aziz, Quillette
America's Gaza Policy Is a Bipartisan Catastrophe
Jonathan Guyer, The New Republic
Jewish Teachers Fight Unions in Court
Susan Crabtree, RealClearPolitics
We Have Met the Enemy and He Isn't Us
Rahm Emanuel, Wall Street Journal
Running Out the Clock on Vladimir Putin
John Teichert, RealClearDefense
Trump's America Looking Like a Banana Republic
Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Newsweek
The Progressive Pantheon of Pathetic Heroes
Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness
The 'Woke' Myth
Robert Reich, Substack
I Watched Transgenderism Ruin My Friends' Lives
Brooke Brandtjen, The Federalist
Wednesday, September 3
Too Many Kids Aren't Going Back to School
William Galston, Wall Street Journal


America's Hyperpoliticized Teachers Unions
Byron York, Washington Examiner
A Judge Lets Google Get Away With Monopoly
Matt Stoller, Substack
Unsafe Cities One of the Great Scandals of Our Time
Mark Penn, FOX News
Illinois Should Learn From DC
Lott & Porter, RealClearPolitics
The Quiet Wisdom of Rep. Nadler's Retirement
Zeeshan Aleem, MSNBC
If Lisa Cook Committed Fraud, It's a Crime Still in Progress
Adam Mill, Chronicles
Behind the Exodus of CDC Leadership
Dylan Scott, Vox
CDC Failures Stem From Politicized Science, Mission Creep
Robert Kennedy Jr., WSJ
50 Opportunities for Economic Mobility
Michael Itzkowitz, Washington Monthly
Progressives Are Headed for Self-Imposed Extinction
Shane Harris, AMAC
Eric Adams' Last Stand
Errol Louis, New York Magazine
Last Taboo: Acknowledging Violent Behavior in Women
Christopher Ferguson, RCI
On the 'Ersatz Religion' of Transhumanism
Taibbi & Kheriaty, Racket News
Vogue, Vanity Fair Make a Poor Decision To Snub Melania
Ingrid Jacques, USA Today
A List for Handy Reference on Gender Identity Ideology
J.K. Rowling, X
UK Is a Tyrannical Hellhole State Trying To Export Censorship
Mike Benz, War Room
Thursday, September 4
Tinkerbell Politics Won't Save Democrats
Mally Smith, The Hill


Lisa Cook Has Been Fired
Larry Kudlow, New York Sun
Embarrassing Ruling Allows Google To Keep Monopoly
David Dayen, Am. Prospect
'Not Done': DOJ Vows To Pursue Google Break-Up
Palma & Acton, Financial Times
Trump Proves Cleaning Up Cities Not That Hard
Peachy Keenan, Human Events
Judge Chides Trump on LA--and Warns Us
Austin Sarat, Salon
Rahm Emanuel: Democrats Have Lost Touch
Salena Zito, Washington Examiner
Is Adams About To Drop Out of the Mayoral Race?
Nia Prater, New York Magazine
Wiki Wars
Ashley Rindsberg, Tablet Magazine
CBS Deceptively Edits Another Interview
John Nolte, Breitbart
65-Year-Old Theory Helps Explain Why Democrats Keep Losing
Lee Drutman, Vox
Quirky Term Limits Deprive VA of the Governor It Wants
David Marcus, FOX News
The UK Earns Status as a Censorship State
Greg Collard, Racket News
Will I Be Arrested Next?
Lionel Shriver, Spiked
A Palestinian State Would Be Good for Israel
Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs
Israel Proves Jewish Blood Is No Longer Cheap
Alan Dershowitz, Wall Street Journal
Washington, Jefferson and the Citizen Genet Affair
Allen Guelzo, Coolidge Review
Friday, September 5
Kennedy Strikes Back
Susan Ferrechio, Washington Times


Inside the CDC Exodus & RFK Jr.'s Anti-Vaccine Crusade
Dominique Mosbergen, Time
Democrats Lied, Want To Nuke RFK for Catching Them
Jesse Watters, FOX News
Armed Troops at the Washington Monument? This Isn't Normal
Jackie Calmes, LAT
His Judgement Cometh and That Right Soon
James R. Brown, JohnKassNews
Does Washington DC Have a Vichy Mayor?
Dave Zirin, The Nation
How PA Turned Red - and Why It Might Last
Oliver Bateman, RealClearPennsylvania
JB Pritzker Shows How To Handle Trump
Ryan Cooper, The American Prospect
Trump's Midterm Convention Idea Will Reshape America
Mehek Cooke, FOX News
Trump's Strike on Venezuelan Boat Was an Act of War
Julio Ricardo Varela, MSNBC
Dems Add Narcoterrorists to Their Mt. Rushmore of Heroes
Brianna Boucetta, AMAC
Trump Should Learn History Before He Rewrites It
Sidney Blumenthal, The Guardian
America First and Dealing With a Recalcitrant Putin
Fred Fleitz, American Greatness
A Wrong Turn in the Indo-Pacific
Ilan Berman, Newsweek
Elon Musk's Unclaimed Political Power
Greg Orman, RealClearPolitics
Transgenderism Ends in Nihilism
Christopher Rufo, Substack
Family: The Foundation of America's Next 250 Years
Kevin Roberts, American Mind
Watch/Listen: Kennedy | Bennet | Wegmann | Watters | Enten | More Videos
Saturday, September 6
Ex-Chicago Police Chief Slams Dems Rejecting Help
Elizabeth Stauffer, DC Examiner
Liberals Don't Have To Lose on Immigration
Jerusalem Demsas, Substack
Walz's Dream Act Nightmare
Brian Lonergan, Chronicles
West Coast Health Alliance Is a Noble Effort To Offset RFK Jr.
Esther Choo, MSNBC
Honesty Will Get Better Results Than Vaccine Mandates
Jay Bhattacharya, Newsmax
Democrats Should Stop Looking to DC for Leadership
Ed Kilgore, New York Magazine
If Europe Won't End the Censorship, U.S. Should End NATO
Michael Shellenberger, X
Reclaiming the War Department
Christian Whiton, Substack
Trump Is Reshaping the Presidency in His Own Image
Paul Blumenthal, HuffPost
Roberts Invites Leftist Bullying Campaigns vs. SCOTUS
Shawn Fleetwood, Federalist
Has Apprenticeship Moment Finally Arrived?
Robert Lerman, Washington Monthly
ZIP Code Is Destiny? Turns Out That's Bunk
Heckman & Eshaghnia, Wall Street Journal
The Marriage Effect
Jean Twenge, The Atlantic
What Is the Price of Parenting?
Ivana Greco, Commonplace
Why the Trans Agenda Stalled
Andrew Wilson, Piers Morgan Uncensored
Is Tom Cruise the Last Action Hero?
Vikram Murthi, The Nation
The Death of Legacy Media and the Substack Revolution
Sasha Stone, Substack
Trump Job Approval:YouGov 44% | Rasmussen 48% | DailyMail 55% | Yahoo 42%
Sunday, September 7
Why It's Called 'Defense'--and Why Trump Is Changing It
Joshua Keating, Vox
Biden Admin Treated the Military Like a Disney Remake
Greg Gutfeld, FOX News
Can Democrats Offer a New Vision for Labor?
Justin Vassallo, Substack
Sen. Kaine's Constitutional Blasphemy
Jonathan Turley, The Hill
Kennedy Hearing Turns Into Proxy War
Roger Kimball, American Greatness
Hijacking the Kennedys
Reeves Wiedeman, New York Magazine
Insane, Costly System Is Not Making Americans Healthier
Alex Berenson, Substack
Impeachment Time for Judge Boasberg
Mike Davis, FOX News
California Fighting Back Against Trump's Federal Agents
Sasha Abramsky, The Nation
CBS News Admits Defeat, Will Stop Editing On-Air Interviews
John Nolte, Breitbart
Adams Accuses 'Snake' Cuomo of Trying To Push Him Out
Nia Prater, NY Magazine
Sunstein's Defense of Freedom Overlooks Campus Illiberalism
Peter Berkowitz, RCP
Democrats: Don't Let Trump Define State Capitalism
Todd Tucker, The New Republic
Reef Madness: A Baseless Coral Panic
Bjorn Lomborg, Wall Street Journal
How MAHA Can Save American Lives
Ryan Sheridan, RealClearPolitics
Why Kids Are All Posing Like This in Pictures
Anna North, Vox
More, Not Less, Prison May Improve Life Chances
Robert Cherry, Substack


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