The Dispatch

Billionaires, while they contribute to society, aren’t doing enough to justify their spotlights.

As mental health awareness and spending grows, mental health outcomes are getting worse.

Under the Trump administration, citizens-to-be face unprecedented obstacles along their path to naturalization.

Trump takes the Kennedy Center hostage.

The constant drumbeat of crises and doom is making us all tired.

A Texas politician’s tweet about football fans lays bare divisions on the right.

Plus: Kash Patel and Scott Bessent face congressional questioning, the U.S. destroys two Iranian boats near Hormuz, and driverless cars with drivers.

Plus, the Packers.

The president would rather point fingers at Kyiv than tell Putin to stop the killing.

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The AI ‘hoax’ becomes a MAGA loyalty test.

Plus: The 10-year Treasury yield touches 5 percent as oil prices climb, Trump pushes back hard on AI regulation, and Chihuahuas are unsurprisingly part coyote.

Plus: A Russian oligarch funded Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding.

But Sarah disagrees!

Proposals to subsidize stay-at-home parents divert resources and misunderstand the purpose of American welfare programs.

We shouldn’t let political inertia get in the way of flexible, pro-family policy.

Amy Kremer’s ‘Data Center Revolt’ puts her in an unlikely position: in opposition to President Trump.

When prosperous societies educate more people than prestige systems can absorb, some turn against the source of that prosperity.

America’s young men today largely still want to serve their societies.

There is no postliberal “melting pot.”

On the neurotic compulsion to perform life rather than living it.

Plus: a Russian drone strikes a train near the Polish border, the Houthis seize Perim Island off Yemen’s coast, and elephants have impulse control.