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Jimmy Kimmel Live, Dead, and Resurrected: Disney, the FCC, and America’s New Speech Test

Disney can reanimate cartoon deer and resurrect billion-dollar franchises, but even they didn’t think they’d have to stage a primetime Lazarus trick for Jimmy Kimmel. Yet here we are. After an extraordinary two-week suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live!—a late-night show that once got canceled only for recycling too many “Matt Damon” bits—Disney announced the show
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When Politicians Pretend They’re Revolutionaries: The Palestine Recognition Spectacle

They said “symbolic.” They said “diplomatic.” They said “a step toward peace.” But when the Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia stood up in unison and said, “Yes, Palestine is a state,” it looked less like diplomacy and more like a performance. One of those moral theater pieces meant to reassure the
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Cash in Hand, Case Closed: Trump’s Border Czar’s Fifty-Grand Mulligan

There are a lot of ways to bribe a man. Some are delicate—offshore accounts, art loans, consulting contracts that pay for “advisory” work never rendered. Others are cinematic—duffel bags of crisp bills, shady meetings in garages. Then there’s Tom Homan, the White House’s border czar, who apparently prefers the Costco version: fifty thousand dollars in
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Charlie Kirk: The First Time the GOP Has Cared About a School Shooting

They say tragedy unites. They also say power corrupts. In America right now, we’re seeing how the former becomes the latter—fast. Because in the days following Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Republicans escalated their post-martyr politics from solemn resolutions in Congress all the way into statehouses, into speech bills, statues, free speech holidays, and threats of passport





