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Keith Preston

The plan on the table

Monday, Week XL, MMXXV Recently: Loyalty tests and legal standards. Fighter jets and calculated confusion. &c. | The member’s despatch, Week XXXIX. Today: Can a plan work when its vagueness is the point? The White House released a 21-point proposal to end the war in Gaza on Monday—and […]

What If We Took Democracy Seriously?

In our Fall Books issue, Osita Nwanevu reviewed Sam Tanenhaus’s doorstopper Buckley, a biography of the conservative intellectual and bon vivant remembered fondly—too fondly, Nwanevu argues—by many people appalled at the current state of argument in America. Osita Nwanevu; photograph by Emily Wilson Nwanevu, prolific in the pages of The […]

The War on Tylenol

SEPTEMBER 26, 2025 The War on Tylenol Trump and RFK Are Presiding Over a Massacre of the Innocents → This week was full of absurdity. RFK Jr. launched an attack on a new false culprit for autism: Tylenol. As our public health correspondent Gregg Gonsalves explained, running a […]

‘A war from within’

Recently: Want to lay criminal charges against a political enemy when a career prosecutor says there isn’t enough evidence? No problem. Today: The U.S. military has flown in hundreds of officers from Europe, the Middle East, and Japan to hear Trump’s new plans: assembling “quick-reaction forces” for civil […]

Gaza doctors warn of “wholesale extermination”; Trump to meet with Netanyahu; Feds to target “anti-capitalist” groups under new terrorism directive

Drop Site Daily: September 29, 2025 Drop Site News Sep 29, 2025 Fifty Palestinians killed in Gaza over the past 24 hours as confirmed death toll tops 66,000. Israel continues its destruction of Gaza’s medical infrastructure, with doctors warning of “wholesale extermination” amid growing famine and health care […]

Democrats Get Mariachi’d

Democrats Get Mariachi’d Plus: Jimmy Kimmel Live! plagues my neighborhood, Hegseth’s fancy meeting, Eric Adams gone but not forgotten, and more… LIZ WOLFE The federal government will shut down tonight. It looks like no real progress has been made and we’re headed for a shutdown: “I don’t worry […]

A national abortion ban is underway

Repro Nation Monthly | September 2025 Activists rally in Seoul, South Korea, on September 23, 2025, calling for the government to fulfill its pledge to introduce medical abortion pills during a press event marking International Safe Abortion Day. (Chris Jung / NurPhoto via Getty Images) Hyde at 49 […]

9/30/25: Trump Bibi Gaza Deal, Gov Shutdown Imminent, Epstein Israeli Security Agreement & MORE!

Krystal and Saagar discuss Trump and Bibi announce Gaza deal, Hamas leaders negative on Gaza plan, gov shutdown imminent, Epstein brokered Israeli security agreement, pro Israel war to replace Kirk. Jeremy Scahill: https://x.com/jeremyscahill Timestamps: (00:00)Intro (2:14)BREAKDOWN: Trump’s Gaza Lago Deal With Bibi (22:21)EXCLUSIVE: Hamas Leaders VERY NEGATIVE On […]

9/29/25: Gov Shutdown, Bibi Brags About TikTok Control, Eric Adams Drops Out, Riyadh Comedy & MORE!

Krystal and Saagar discuss Dems vs Trump on gov shutdown, chaos as shootings erupt across the US, Bibi brags about social media control, Eric Adams drops out of NYC election, Trump calls for Portland invasion, Shane Gillis calls out Riyadh comedy festival. Ken: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/ Timestamps: (00:00)Intro (1:32)Will Dems […]