The Dispatch

A CNN piece highlights division among the liberals.

The president’s admiration for the Russian dictator erodes American interests and values.

Character.AI’s bankruptcy filing reveals the peril of forming bonds with AI companions.

Newt Gingrich’s Republican Revolution swept Capitol Hill, but it didn’t last.

The Cornell case has renewed calls to shut down frats.

Making sense of Vivek Ramaswamy’s vicious new ad.

Gay jokes are supposed to be out of bounds.

The president’s packed campaign schedule is part vanity tour, part eleventh-hour rescue mission.

Plus: Home sales and new construction slump, Elon Musk ordered Ukraine’s Starshield speed cap, and Trevor Milton has a plane to sell you.

Plus: Boris Yeltsin and penguin islands.

For the first time since October 7, Israelis will decide whether their government has done enough to prevent future catastrophes.

The Democratic Senate nominee has moderated many of his progressive positions, but you wouldn’t know that from local reporting.

Capitalism isn’t the source of France’s woes, and more government spending is not the solution.

‘You Can See Everything’ shows what happens when you get too close to an object of ire.

Elissa Slotkin and the ‘weaponization’ problem.

The White House scrambles to pull every conceivable policy lever to loosen fuel markets ahead of midterms.

Plus: the Justice Department charges 28 Californians with illegal voting, France imposes curfews after a weekend of riots, and jousting (on scooters) is making a comeback.

You guys know how Sarah feels about the trees.

A network of peers, nonprofits, and contractors is attempting to fill gaps left by the gutted federal agency responsible for election security.

Society benefits from extraordinary innovators, even when their personalities make them difficult to tolerate.

The Dispatch Podcast goes live.

Will Americans care about the betrayal of Ukraine?

In Texas, Democrats court a new constituency: normal people.

Plus: Marco Rubio urges Israel to crack down on settler violence, Ilhan Omar’s lawyers contest last week’s search of her home, and the Smithsonian National Zoo won’t name its new addition Panda McPandaface.

And a thorough condemnation of antebellum Minnesota lesbian poetry.

It must ensure that the terrorist organization cannot rebuild militarily.

Plus: Russia weighs a winter campaign against Ukraine’s power grid, the administration bars Microsoft from a green card program, and pickleball-flavored burgers.

Plus: What will Democrats do with a congressional majority?

AI is already changing how Americans do their jobs, in good ways and in bad.

Erdoğan hides his mounting human rights abuses behind a carefully crafted tourism campaign.

The most interesting insight of Justice Samuel Alito’s new book may seem obvious, but it’s less obvious coming from an originalist.

On third-world wolves in first-world sheep’s clothing.

The economics might just work in this particular case.

Plus: Hormuz tanker attacks hit a wartime high, the U.S. presses Russia over a plague lab death, and fishing for cocaine.

Will Sarah’s favorite case end in a fizzle?

Election officials using the federal SAVE database to verify voter rolls have encountered problems.

The war may end up as a lose-lose situation if we agree to conditions we wouldn't have accepted a year ago.

On rooting for (dirty) laundry in Texas.

Government can protect the conditions for a good life, but it can’t legislate or enforce happiness.

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Plus: Germany arrests an ex-spy chief on suspicion of espionage, Paramount closes its $81 billion Warner Bros. takeover, and cycling the Berlin marathon.

People are worth more than their opinions.

Three years after Hamas’ attack, antisemitism continues to permeate American universities.

They make the procedure more difficult and ugly, and then claim the ugliness and difficulty are problems.

Donald Trump’s court has a neat historical ancestor.

The church has some experience with millenarian cults.

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Understanding trends in weather requires working from the best available data.

Plus: Angela Paxton ‘endorses’ her husband.

Plus: The Yemeni government claims territorial gains, the Supreme Court starts new term, and protests in France.