Category: News Updates

Powell’s Last Stand

Powell’s Last Stand Plus: Federal bureaucracy gets a redesign, Robert Moses messing things up (still), Syrian immigrant unemployment data, and more… LIZ WOLFE Powell’s last speech: Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is expected to give (what will probably be) his last address today in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, laying out […]

Why the FBI raided John Bolton

SATURDAY, AUGUST 23 FBI RAIDS DC RESIDENCE OF JOHN BOLTON  FBI agents raided the residence and office of former Trump national security advisor John Bolton. Reuters reported that “a source familiar with the matter” said the search was part of a national security probe into classified information leaks. […]

Nothing Has Changed in the War in Ukraine, Europe’s Free Speech Problem, “Why Won’t Billionaire Rightists Fund Us?” USA’s Intangible Economy, Future Archaeology

Niccolo Soldo Aug 23, 2025 Every weekend (almost) I share five articles/essays/reports with you. I select these over the course of the week because they are either insightful, informative, interesting, important, or a combination of the above. Share I have been very, very frustrated for some time now […]

8/21/25: AI Bubble, Israel Invades Gaza City, Tim Dillon Shreds DC Deployment, Tech Eugenics & MORE!

Krystal and Saagar discuss the AI bubble, Triggernometry says peace impossible to Netanyahu, Israel invades Gaza City, Tim Dillon shreds Trump DC deployment, Megyn Kelly reveals Israel pressure campaign, alleged pedo hires Trump Pro-Israel appointee, Saagar rips anti tax boomers, tech elites go full eugenics. Timestamps: (00:00)Intro (4:10)AI […]

The Inflation Adjustment Bureau

Today in The New York Review of Books: Brett Christophers asks just who the Fed answers to; Christopher Benfey remembers Main Street, USA, in Indiana and at Disneyland; and congratulations to Ian Johnson, winner of the 2025 Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Book Reviewing.   Brett Christophers Whose […]

Digital battlefields

Poptech Recently: Why does North Korea keep threatening South Korea and its allies without ever going to war? Michael Breen on theater and reality in one of the most enigmatic places on Earth. … & Why is Bangladesh struggling so much to build a democracy? Today: Matthew Ford […]

Trump’s Deportation Goals

Trump’s Deportation Goals Plus: Elites in the media, revoking security clearances, car prices going up, and more… LIZ WOLFE Trump’s campaign promises, coming to fruition: “Until June, deportations had lagged behind immigration arrests and detentions,” reports The New York Times. “By the first week of August, deportations reached nearly 1,500 people per day, according to the […]

Trump Meets with Putin

NATIONAL REVIEW AUGUST 15, 2025 ◼ Donald Trump finally took action against a rogue, lawless state that is a constant menace to its neighbors. But enough about Washington, D.C.   ◼ By agreeing to meet Vladimir Putin in Alaska, Trump is betting on his self-proclaimed skills as a […]

No ceasefire after Trump-Putin summit

SATURDAY, AUGUST 16 ‘PRODUCTIVE’ MEETING, NO CEASEFIRE  President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin both spoke positively of their historic peace talk in Alaska Friday, but they did not reach the Ukraine ceasefire agreement Trump had sought.  READ DC SUES TRUMP OVER FEDERAL TAKEOVER OF POLICE  Washington, DC’s […]

Show Patrol

Show Patrol Plus: Zohran Mamdani courts the “it” crowd, Mexican cartel deal, shutting down microschools, and more… LIZ WOLFE A glorified photo op: About a dozen National Guard members took a stroll around Washington D.C.’s National Mall yesterday as the sun set. Other troops deployed around monuments elsewhere, and […]

Narratives & forensics

Poptech Recently: Where’s all the money coming into American think tanks from? Ben Freeman on the enormous foreign-government “donations” flowing through Washington, D.C. … & Is Taiwan’s democracy in trouble? Today: Forensic Architecture’s new investigation into the killing of a student protester in Bangladesh. … Amory Gethin on […]

Is Trump’s D.C. Policing Doing Anything?

Is Trump’s D.C. Policing Doing Anything? Plus: Core inflation rises, booze falls out of favor, FDA can’t let us have nice things, and more… LIZ WOLFE D.C.’s stepped-up law enforcement continues: Last night, a somewhat predictable scene broke out between Homeland Security officers doing a traffic checkpoint at 14th and W […]