The Military Pete Hegseth Wants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wDhfh6H8a8 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts One month after his return to office, President…

Philip Glass' new symphony premieres at Tanglewood after Kennedy Center cancellation

Philip Glass’ newest symphony, an homage to Abraham Lincoln, was supposed to premiere at the Kennedy Center — until it didn’t. And then, the Boston Symphony Orchestra stepped in. (Image…

An Awful Day at Work … In a Fantasy Epic

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The Age of the Trillionaire

Robert Morris migrated from England to the American colonies as a teenager and established himself in the mercantile industry. During the Revolutionary War, his trading ships attacked British vessels and…

Fixing Social Security Is Easy, but It Isn’t Simple

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The Administration Isn’t Even Pretending Anymore

The official line remains the same: The 10-month campaign of strikes on small boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific has nearly stopped the flow of drugs by sea into…

The ‘Consumer Socialism’ Trap

This past January, in his inaugural address, Zohran Mamdani memorably promised to “replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” In the parlance of the Democratic Socialists…

I Changed My Mind About Small-Dollar Campaign Donors

Colorado’s rural Fourth Congressional District is Republican territory. In the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump carried it by 18 percentage points. Yet Eileen Laubacher, a former Navy rear admiral running…

Introducing How to Touch Grass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB_gpziat0w Listen and subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Pocket Casts A common piece of advice for those who are chronically online is to “go touch grass.”…

Philip Glass' Lincoln symphony premiers after Kennedy Center pullout

Philip Glass’ symphony in tribute to Abraham Lincoln gets its long-awaited premiere with the Boston Symphony. Orchestra, after Glass pulled out of a planned performance at the Kennedy Center.