David Groff

Corey Lewandowski to begin affair with Markwayne Mullin

There will be no more regime change wars. Instead we will fight wars in order to leave the regime unchanged.

by Donald Trump

Analysis | George W. Bush's Iraq invasion was preceded by months of meticulous planning, and yet history regards it as a failure. Perhaps Donald Trump's loose, improvised approach to invading Iran will be the key to its success.

Critics say that Trump's war with Iran could have a lot of blowback. But there is no historical precedent for the United States overthrowing an Iranian government and then facing 50 years of hostility from Iranians.

Analysis | If the right-wing Ellisons are allowed to purchase CNN, they could order Jake Tapper to obsessively focus on Biden's age, or demand that Van Jones to say Trump truly became president today, or allow Scott Jennings to brazenly tell baldfaced lies on a nightly basis.

Kash Patel celebrated the US hockey team's victory the right way.

by Ezra Klein

The fact that we are two Supreme Court votes away from being a full-fledged dictatorship shows that our judicial system is working.

by Noah Feldman

Prince Andrew to seek asylum in the United States and join Donald Trump’s cabinet to avoid further persecution.

I was waiting for this.

There was no happy ending for Patriots' owner Robert Kraft today.

Infuriating @nytimes.com

President Trump's norm-shattering posts have reset our nation's political dialogue.

The Atlantic was founded in 1857, the New York Times in 1851. So it's a bit surprising that David Brooks is leaving the Times for the Atlantic, given that the Atlantic is only six years younger.

David Brooks is leaving his position as a columnist at the New York Times to become the Atlantic's airport whiskey correspondent.

Source: ICE to begin using empty Melania theaters as temporary detention facilities.

This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.

Infuriating. Be brave and bold, Senator Gillibrand. @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social

Gillibrand is legitimately even worse than Schumer.

There are few things more disturbing than witnessing the government gun down your fellow citizen on a city street. The more Democrats share video of this, the more they alienate reasonable centrists.

by Editorial Board of the Free Press

Americans must have the right to bear arms so that they can resist tyranny. But if they exercise that right in a time of tyranny, they should expect to be shot and killed.

Trump not is advancing "one-sided narratives"--he is telling lies. You presuppose two sides, when in this situation there are not. He is telling a lie, a word that @nytimes, with all its primness & bothsidesism, refuses to use. And thus the NYT itself denies the truth.

@peterbakernyt.bsky.social Trump not is advancing "one-sided narratives"--he is telling lies. You presuppose two sides, when in this situation there are not. He is telling a lie, a word that @nytimes, with all its primness & bothsidesism, refuses to use. And thus the NYT itself denies the truth.

If our administration is as racist as the Left claims, then why have the past two civilians we've murdered been white?

by J.D. Vance

1441: Birthday Wish by David Groff Today’s poem is Birthday Wish by David Groff.

My gratitude to poet and memoirist Maggie Smith, host of The Slowdown podcast from American Public Media, for meditating upon and reading my poem "Birthday Wish."

Maybe today you'll wish to be more like a dog or a tree.

Send your poetry manuscript to the Trio House book contests!

It’s time to stop the influx of immigrants who take drugs, father children out of wedlock, and steal from the government.

by Elon Musk

I haven't watched any of the videos of the shooting of Renee Good but the fact that people on the left think it was murder while people on the right think it was self-defense shows that that the truth must be somewhere in the middle.

To stay up-to-date on breaking news, we are sunsetting our coverage of:

- The Venezuelan boat assassinations
- The Tom Homan bribery case
- The dismantling of the CDC, USAID, and Department of Education
- Alligator Alcatraz
- The pardon of drug traffickers
- The Qatari jet
- The Epstein files

ICE just reported its fourth in-custody death of 2026. It’s only January 10.