1+ hour, 42+ min ago  (401+ words) Next to the highway, an abandoned rail line stretches in perfect parallel. It's tired with heavy grasses from years of abandonment." "You might come here Sunday on a whim," the American writer Richard Hugo began his poem "Degrees of Gray…...

6+ hour, 6+ min ago  (1103+ words) Jonah Goldberg ruminates on the Iran war and the confusion coming out of the White House, the Whole Foods bandit and why theft is bad, and Justice Clarence Thomas' speech at the University of Texas at Austin. The podcast transcription…...

1+ hour, 42+ min ago  (1275+ words) Victoria Holmes is an associate multimedia producer at The Dispatch and is based in Washington, D. C. Prior to joining the company in 2022, she worked as a TV news reporter and podcast host. When she's not producing and editing podcasts and multimedia…...

8+ hour, 16+ min ago  (992+ words) You're reading Boiling Frogs, Nick Catoggio's daily newsletter on politics. To unlock the full version, become a Dispatch member today. Ethics in politics can seem confusing. For instance, if you're a special-ops soldier cashing in on your inside knowledge of…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (1306+ words) You're reading The Morning Dispatch, our flagship daily newsletter explaining all the news you need to know today in fewer than 15 minutes. To unlock the full version, become a Dispatch member today. Happy Friday! Jonathan Dupiton, host of the Rich…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (1427+ words) CHERNOBYL, Ukraine'Click-click-click. Volodymyr Verbytskyi's Geiger counter starts going haywire. Beyond the first forests of the exclusion zone surrounding the Vladimir Ilyich Lenin power plant, the counter emits a warning signal before settling down. Verbytskyi, his face weathered by the sun,…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (1887+ words) Steve Hayes is joined by Jonah Goldberg, David French, and Kevin Williamson to discuss the Trump administration's ongoing negations with Iran, FBI Director Kash Patel's alleged excessive drinking, and Justice Clarence Thomas' recent speech at the University of Texas. Show…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (227+ words) In 2016, the Pentagon's research and development agency hosted the first-ever hacking competition fought entirely by machines. Dubbed the "Cyber Grand Challenge," the contest lasted more than eight hours and ultimately saw a computer system called Mayhem, developed by a team…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (388+ words) The fusionists built an influential movement by rejecting populism. Today's conservatives should take note. Fusionism, most associated with National Review editor Frank Meyer, emerged as the most successful effort to give the postwar right-wing movement coherence. Meyer's essays as well…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (344+ words) While two new players plan to back GOP candidates, the biggest one works both sides of the aisle. When Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton emerged victorious from the state's Democratic Senate primary in March, she didn't just defeat her Democratic…...