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The underlying assumption, held by leaders across the political spectrum, is that appealing to America’s loftiest ideals for reasons unrelated to partisan advantage is for suckers. We reject that premise. From The Dispatch Editors:
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Slouching Towards Tyranny
On a dark hour for the American right.
https://thedispatch.com/article/decline-choice-tyranny/
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"Militarily, time is completely on the United States' side. The problem is that politically and economically and to a certain extent, one could say geostrategically, time is more on Iran's side." | Jonah Goldberg on CNN's The Arena
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“Grow up people. This is not a normal situation for a normal shutdown fight.” | Jonah Goldberg’s reaction to the TSA funding standoff amid the U.S. war in Iran
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"The general awfulness of the online world may not be your fault, but it is your problem." | Kevin D. Williamson
https://thedispatch.com/article/meta-parenting-kids-online/
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"The president’s self-defeating policy choices are setting up the GOP for disappointment in the midterms." | Michael Warren
https://thedispatch.com/article/trump-dhs-shutdown-iran-midterms-congress/
about 4 hours ago
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“Jeff Hurd is an important member of our team here in Congress, and I’m glad he and President Trump worked out their differences,” Rep. Richard Hudson told The Dispatch | David M. Drucker & Charles Hilu
https://thedispatch.com/article/trump-reendorses-jeff-hurd-colorado-midterms/
about 5 hours ago
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"The permanent work of American self-government is honoring the dignity and equality of every individual, without regard to the conditions into which they were born." | Anastasia Boden in TheNext250
https://thedispatch.com/next-250/brown-board-education-civil-rights-race-harvard/
about 6 hours ago
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Europe’s Rising Antisemitism: The Senate votes to approve DHS funding, Israel kills the Revolutionary Guard’s navy commander, and a pig just won a Guinness Record for being more popular than you | Morning Dispatch
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/morning/europes-rising-antisemitism/
about 8 hours ago
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"I do think there’s an important difference between his first term and his second that helps explain his political downfall: Trump’s second term is for him, not for us." | Nick Catoggio in Boiling Frogs
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/boilingfrogs/trump-job-approval-political-instincts/
about 22 hours ago
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about 23 hours ago
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Prediction markets are being embedded in news coverage | Alex Demas explains in his latest piece
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Are we approaching an unprecedented energy crisis? | Rory Johnston answers in this week's Dispatch Energy, presented by Pacific Legal Foundation 🔓
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/dispatch-energy/iran-war-energy-crisis-hormuz/
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Are We Approaching an Unprecedented Energy Crisis?
Attempts to reroute or offset Iranian-throttled oil continue to fall short.
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/dispatch-energy/iran-war-energy-crisis-hormuz/
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On 'looksmaxxing' and a culture of certainty | Salwa Emerson explains in her latest Dispatch piece
https://thedispatch.com/article/beauty-looksmaxxing-certainty-gen-z/
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Trump’s Oil Waiver Gives Iran a Dangerous Financial Lifeline: Allowing Tehran to sell crude will only strengthen its grip over global energy flows | Max Meizlish
https://thedispatch.com/article/iran-oil-sanctions-waiver-hormuz/
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"When inclusion becomes unconditional—when no behavior is too disruptive, no boundary legitimate—shared spaces begin to collapse." | Robert Pondiscio
https://thedispatch.com/article/public-disorder-schools-inclusivity-paradox/
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Trump’s Immigration Reset | Plus: Google and Meta lose at social media trial, Iran rejects and counters U.S. ceasefire proposal, and Venezuela has robot police dogs, for some reason | Morning Dispatch
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/morning/trumps-immigration-reset/
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"'In Trump we Trust' is not a policy agenda, it’s a cult of personality." | Jonah Goldberg in G-File
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/gfile/donald-trump-joe-biden-economy-paul-ryan-mitch-mcconnell/
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"We’re not being informed by our leadership in any meaningful way. We’re hostages, nervously watching and hoping for the best." | Nick Catoggio in Boiling Frogs
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/boilingfrogs/trump-iran-war-spectacle-memes/
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What are the potential implications for food prices as we enter the spring planting season? | Scott Lincicome discusses on U.S. Chamber of Commerce's The Call
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"The president has not conducted himself in a way that might make partner and allied countries predisposed to assist him in a conflict in which they were not consulted before hostilities began." | Mike Nelson
https://thedispatch.com/article/us-israel-nato-coalition-war-fighting/
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"Yes, voting fraud is real. But the so-called SAVE America Act is not the solution." | Kevin D. Williamson
https://thedispatch.com/article/save-act-voter-fraud-concerns/
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Early—and Painful—Lessons From the Iran War: Iran’s leverage over the Strait of Hormuz has prompted Trump to reverse some of his economic philosophy | Jonah Goldberg
https://thedispatch.com/article/iran-war-economy/
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Is the SAVE America Act a Passport to Electoral Success? | Stephen Richer
https://thedispatch.com/article/save-america-act-voter-id-passports/
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Steve Hayes is answering YOUR questions TODAY on The Dispatch subreddit. Join our subreddit:
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SURPRISE ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨: Steve Hayes is doing our first-ever AMA on our subreddit TODAY, March 25th. Ask your questions here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Dispatch/comments/1s3c5ev/im_steve_hayes_editor_at_the_dispatch_ama/
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The SAVE America Act, Explained | Plus: Denmark holds a snap election, prosecutors admit they have no evidence against Powell, and bank robbers aren’t very smart | Morning Dispatch
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/morning/the-save-america-act-explained/
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"Trump keeps getting boxed in by his own pressure tactics." | Nick Catoggio
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/boilingfrogs/trump-iran-dhs-shutdown-save-act-taco/
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Tired of Gerrymandering? Uncap the House. Expanding direct representation is a better solution than ‘an eye for an eye.’ | Jeff Mayhugh
https://thedispatch.com/article/gerrymandering-redistricting-house-representation-virginia/
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Tired of Gerrymandering? Uncap the House.
Expanding direct representation is a better solution than ‘an eye for an eye.’
https://thedispatch.com/article/gerrymandering-redistricting-house-representation-virginia/
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"'Hong Kong is where East meets West'—once signified synthesis. That slogan has curdled." | Jay Sophalkalyan
https://thedispatch.com/article/hong-kong-crackdown-warning-taiwan/
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"The true tragedy is losing the freedom to wander inside our own minds, to leave room for instinct and surprise. That is where beauty has always lived: in the not knowing, in the wonder." | Salwa Emerson
https://thedispatch.com/article/beauty-looksmaxxing-certainty-gen-z/
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"The countdown on a key U.S. surveillance capability has begun, with Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act set to expire on April 20 absent its reauthorization by Congress." | Patrick G. Eddington
https://thedispatch.com/article/fisa-section-702-surveillance-intelligence/
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The Case for Letting FISA’s Section 702 Expire
Recent efforts to reform the federal government’s intelligence-gathering capability fall short.
https://thedispatch.com/article/fisa-section-702-surveillance-intelligence/
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The Dispawtcher of the Year bracket is back for the second year of the row! Who will win Dispawtcher of the Year?
https://thedispatch.com/article/dispawtch-bracket-2026/
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Dispawtch Bracket 2026
Who will win Dispawtcher of the Year?
https://thedispatch.com/article/dispawtch-bracket-2026/
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Can you use AI to help cure your dog's cancer? | James Sutton explains in The Morning Dispatch
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/morning/the-future-of-mrna-vaccines/
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What Would Reopen the Strait of Hormuz? Plus: SCOTUS considers Mississippi election case, Markwayne Mullin confirmed as DHS Secretary, and sometimes you randomly teleport to Waffle House | Morning Dispatch
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/morning/what-would-reopen-the-strait-of-hormuz/
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"Quiet streets in a country where an illegal war is threatening to wreck the global economy is what giving up looks like." | Nick Catoggio in Boiling Frogs
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/boilingfrogs/mass-protests-iran-war-iraq-trump/
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SCOTUSblog will be live blogging the court's possible announcement of opinions on Wednesday, May 25, starting at 9:30 a.m. EST. Tune in:
https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/03/announcement-of-opinions-for-wednesday-march-25/?_thumbnail_id=491760
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"No supply chain is safe." | Kevin D. Williamson in Wanderland
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/wanderland/trump-tariffs-domestic-industry-supply-chains/
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"Why Venezuela and Iran? What are we even doing there; how are we intervening, and finally, why now?" | Thomas Dichter
https://thedispatch.com/article/nation-building-dangers-iran-venezuela-cuba/
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Will Cuba Be the Next to Fall? The U.S. is applying political and economic pressure on the fuel-starved nation | Gil Guerra
https://thedispatch.com/article/cuba-energy-blackouts-government-u-s-negotiations/
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"Judaism and Islam are sister religions, and that Jews and Muslims share a long heritage of peace, coexistence, and mutual enrichment." | Mustafa Akyol in Dispatch Faith
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/dispatch-faith/yeshiva-university-judaism-islam/
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The Philosophers and Churchmen Who Fell for Fascism: Moral lessons from Vichy France | Nathan Beacom in The Monday Essay
https://thedispatch.com/article/vichy-france-bishops-catholicism-fascism/
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‘Liberation Day,’ One Year Later: The president vowed to usher in an economic rebirth. He instead delivered inefficiencies and job losses. | Richard M. Reinsch II
https://thedispatch.com/article/liberation-day-tariffs-trump-economy/
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‘Liberation Day,’ One Year Later
The president vowed to usher in an economic rebirth. He instead delivered inefficiencies and job losses.
https://thedispatch.com/article/liberation-day-tariffs-trump-economy/
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ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨: AMA's Are Coming to The Dispatch Subreddit! Join r/The_Dispatch today!
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The Dispatch
The Dispatch offers insightful reporting and commentary, serving as a beacon of responsible journalism that prioritizes unassailable sources and a nuanced take on today's flashpoint issues.
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"The recovery of lament is not merely a matter of personal spiritual growth. It is a communal responsibility." | M. Elizabeth Lewis Hall, Kelly M. Kapic, & Jason McMartin
https://thedispatch.com/article/christianity-psalms-lament/
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The World Needs to Recover True Lament. Christianity Can Teach It.
‘Honesty about pain is not the opposite of hope.’
https://thedispatch.com/article/christianity-psalms-lament/
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Can Meloni Remake Italy’s Courts? Plus: Trump issues Iran an ultimatum about the Strait of Hormuz, Israeli plans for a long Lebanon campaign, and it’s a Vogue-eat-Dogue world. | Morning Dispatch
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/morning/can-meloni-remake-italys-courts/
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"At a recent D.C. gathering, several guests told me that they were intrigued to learn that Jake Tapper was in the house—until they realized it was just me." | Charles Lane
https://thedispatch.com/article/chuck-lane-jake-tapper-cnn-doppelganger/
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"The Valley is neither glamorous nor gritty, insufficiently real and unreal all at once, just gross and strange and beautiful." | Emmett Rensin in Where I'm From
https://thedispatch.com/article/san-fernando-valley-smoke-rain-driving/
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The Valley! The Valley! The San Fernando Valley!
The smoky beige of a place that is, and is not, Los Angeles.
https://thedispatch.com/article/san-fernando-valley-smoke-rain-driving/
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How Mystical Japanese Sci-Fi Captured American Millennials: The 30th anniversary of ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion.’ | Nick Pompella
https://thedispatch.com/article/neon-genesis-evangelion-american-millennials/
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How Mystical Japanese Sci-Fi Captured American Millennials
The 30th anniversary of ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion.’
https://thedispatch.com/article/neon-genesis-evangelion-american-millennials/
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"The cavalry trilogy trend was clear about the need for sacrifice, with U.S. fortifications becoming weaker and threats more severe." | Marvin Olasky in Dispatch Culture
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/dispatch-culture/westerns-small-towns-art-kids/
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"I refuse to believe that Vance is earnestly wavering on running for president. But it sure is interesting that he seems to want everyone to think that he is." | Nick Catoggio in Boiling Frogs
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/boilingfrogs/vance-rubio-trump-2028/
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"The war on Iran isn’t a betrayal of Trumpism, this is Trumpism on full display." | Jonah Goldberg in G-File
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/gfile/iran-war-donald-trump-maga/
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