Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images In Augustine’s Confessions, the saint speaks of his turn to God in language so potent that it has reverberated through centuries. He is “gnawed…
Read more The Empty Confessions of JD VanceLate last year, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul vetoed a bill that would have required two-person operating crews on New York City subways, despite heavy pressure from transit…
Read more Why can’t New York get rid of 2-person subway crews?In this vacuum of meaning, the key Administration personalities have taken to network television and social media, offering their own post-facto theories of the case. They have been…
Read more J. D. Vance’s Notable Absence on VenezuelaNo matter how low one’s expectations were for 2025, the most striking thing about the year when Donald Trump became President again is how much worse it turned…
Read more Donald Trump’s Golden Age of AwfulThis week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Matt Welch are joined by Reason reporter Eric Boehm to discuss Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest and the GOP coalescing around Vice President J.D.…
Read more Can J.D. Vance stop a MAGA civil war?Vice President J.D. Vance on Tuesday , addressing the label during an economic speech at Uline Inc. in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Vance said he sometimes embraces “crazy” conspiracies, citing…
Read more VP Vance: “Sometimes I Am A Conspiracy Theorist, But I Only Believe In Conspiracy Theories That Are True”Susie Wiles and the Boss. Photo: Eric Lee/The Washington Post/Getty Images For all the chaos the second Trump administration has generated, it appears to be remarkably calm at…
Read more Susie Wiles’s Big Slip Is a Test of Her PowerAs if Donald Trump didn’t have enough on his plate this week with the recent Epstein emails release, South Park is continuing to roast the POTUS in this…
Read more ‘South Park’ Fans React To Trump, Vance Erotica As Show Takes On Sora: “Thanks For The Nightmares”Leo probably doesn’t envision Jesus in a MAGA hat. Photo: Maria Grazia Picciarella/Middle East Images/AFP/Getty Images Donald Trump and his team are currently working overtime to convince Americans…
Read more New Pope Offers Same Headaches for TrumpEric Trump spoke to Tom Bevan and Phil Wegmann on the RCP podcast on Wednesday about the future of the MAGA movement, New York and Zohran Mamdani, and…
Read more Eric Trump: Unlike Dems, We’ll Have a Primary Process to Choose the Next Leader of the MAGA MovementLast week, a gunman in Utah shot and killed conservative activist Charlie Kirk. It was a brutal and tragic event, regardless of one’s politics. And yet the fallout…
Read more Republicans support free speech, unless it offends themWhen Vice-President J. D. Vance skipped this year’s 9/11 commemoration ceremony, in New York, and instead spent the day escorting Charlie Kirk’s casket from Utah to Arizona on…
Read more J. D. Vance, Charlie Kirk, and the Politics-as-Talk-Show SingularityCall their employer? “If we want to stop political violence like what happened to Charlie Kirk, we have to be honest about the people who are celebrating it…
Read more A taboo worth keepingVice President JD Vance ramped up the divisive rhetoric following the killing of Charlie Kirk as he hosted the late conservative activist’s radio show and podcast. Vance took…
Read more JD Vance Hints At Crackdown On Mainstream Liberals While Hosting Charlie Kirk’s PodcastJohn Bolton, who was Trump’s national security adviser for a little over a year in the President’s first term, is under investigation for illegally possessing and/or sending classified…
Read more FBI Raids John Bolton’s Home and Office in Classified Files ProbeFor this week’s Fault Lines column, Jon Allsop is filling in for Jay Caspian Kang. If one lesson has emerged this travel season, it’s that you really, really…
Read more The Curious Symbolism of J. D. Vance’s English GetawayPick your poison: Over the weekend, depending on your political flavor, you could have chosen between listening to a comedian hurl insults on stage at Madison Square Garden as…
Read more Brené Brown vs. Joe RoganPhoto: Matt Rourke/AP Photo After Donald Trump’s ill-fated debate against Kamala Harris where vigorously defended his crowd sizes and lied about Haitians in Springfield, Ohio eating pets, the…
Read more Republican Insiders Were Thrilled By J.D. Vance’s DebateBoth candidates at tonight’s vice-presidential debate agreed that housing costs are too high. And both Sen. J.D. Vance (R–Ohio) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz had their favorite scapegoats…
Read more At V.P debate, J.D. Vance and Tim Walz scapegoat immigrants, ‘corporate speculators’ for high housing costsPhoto-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: Getty When J.D. Vance converted to Catholicism five years ago, he came into contact with what the Associated Press recently called “a Catholic intellectual movement,…
Read more J.D. Vance and the Rise of the ‘Postliberal’ Catholics
