August 14, 2024 Issue

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Digital Edition

FEATURE

Equity against excellence: The Olympics vs. DEI

by Zachary Faria

✪ The kingmaker of chaos: George Soros’s failed experiments threaten his kingdom

by Gabe Kaminsky

✪ Biden’s proposed Supreme Court reforms are bad policy and politics

by Ilya Shapiro

✪ The Democrats’ war on weird

by Kyle Sammin

✪ Goat summer: It’s the greatest of all time

by Timothy P. Carney

✪ Tim Walz takes his progressive record in Minnesota nationwide

by Nicole Russell

Your Land

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The college football threat to Team USA

by Conn Carroll

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Criminally confused California

by Zachary Faria

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The new ‘golden rule’: Mind your own damn business

by Timothy P. Carney

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America thwarts Romania’s comeback in women’s gymnastics

by Tiana Lowe Doescher

Business

BUSINESS

Mortgage rates expected to decline this year, providing some relief for consumers

by Zach Halaschak

BUSINESS

Kamala Harris embraces ‘neighborly’ socialism with Tim Walz as running mate

by Tiana Lowe Doescher

Letter From The Editor

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Media must end Harris double standard

by W. James Antle III

Washington Briefing

Build that Walz: Did the curse of Lloyd Bentsen doom Josh Shapiro’s VP hopes?

A happy 50th birthday for the congressional budget process

by Kevin R. Kosar

Will lame-duck Biden fly to the finish or float off into the sunset?

by Max Thornberry

Londoners befuddled by US presidential election choices

by John Scott Lewinski

Killer robots have arrived on the battlefield

by Jamie McIntyre

The Columnists

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Dominic Green

My fellow Americans

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Dan Hannan

Britain is falling apart

Life & Arts

TV

A new HBO documentary clarifies Pete Rose’s greatness as a ballplayer and shortcomings as a man

by Christopher J. Scalia

Books

The least famous and most important strategist of the Cold War, Paul Nitze

Books

Phillip Lopate and greatness of criticism with no authority

by Peter Tonguette

Sports

The Olympic athletes are great fun to watch. Finding the right ways to watch them isn’t

by Oliver Bateman

Film

Tornadobilly elegy

by Kara Kennedy

On Culture

The dream of the 1800s is alive in Trieste

by Will Collins

Books

How the Civil War became inevitable

by Francis Dearnley

Long Life

The Olympics of loudmouths

More from the Magazine

Business

Mortgage rates expected to decline this year, providing some relief for consumers

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Obituary

Francine Pascal, 1932-2024

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