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Organized Crime’s Newest Targets Lawlessness and feckless governments in Latin America are failing to protect religious believers of all types.

"Lawlessness and feckless governments in Latin America are failing to protect religious believers of all types." Dispatch Faith: thedispatch.com/newsletter/d...

Why We Schooled Our Kids at Home—and Why We Finally Sent Them Out How homeschooled children are turning out, from one dad.

Why we schooled our kids at home—and why we finally sent them out, by Scott Salvato:
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The Wrong Way to Cover Trans Issues Fearmongering is likely harmful for the very population some writers mean to defend.

"While the mainstream media is quick to declare that Republicans are harming—and in fact desire to harm—“trans kids,” they might want to take a long look in the mirror, and at their headlines." --Joseph Figliolia

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When a Camera Makes the Call In both pro football and baseball, human fallibility is being replaced by technology.

"In both pro football and baseball, human fallibility is being replaced by technology." --Evan Spear

The robo-umpires are here: thedispatch.com/article/base...

Old Fictions, New Fictions When changing the word for something doesn’t change anything.

"The currency of the Trump administration is the headline, the photo op, and the press release. It’s the condo-salesman approach to politics." --Jonah Goldberg

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White Hot On Sydney Sweeney’s jeans, and genes.

“Are critics of Sweeney’s new ad campaign brain-poisoned progressive chuds or are they right to detect certain ‘regressive’ cultural trends at work? Yes.” --Nick Catoggio

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Assessing Claims About the Demise of the IRS’s ‘Direct File’ Program The agency’s commissioner announced an end to its free tax filing tool.

FACT CHECK: "Commenters responded that taxpayers can file for free using online tax-filing services like TurboTax. Who’s right? Both, in part, though context is warranted all around."

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Trump Guts Economic Statistics Advisory Committees The Trump administration is ending input from experts that enhances the accuracy of federal statistics.

Trump is once again accusing the Biden administration of rigging jobs numbers—this time attacking the BLS commissioner and threatening firings.

Yet he dismantled the panels that help keep those numbers accurate. Grayson Logue covered it in March:

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There Is No Palestinian State And there isn’t going to be one for a long time.

"There is no Palestinian State. And there isn’t going to be one for a long time." --Kevin Williamson

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Trump’s EU Trade Deal Could Cork the U.S. Wine Industry Distributors, producers, and retailers are reeling from tariff costs and hits to wine demand.

Trump’s EU trade deal could cork the U.S. wine industry, Michael Warren explains: thedispatch.com/article/trum...

What We Got Wrong in July A list of corrections issued by The Dispatch last month.

Every month, we compile a list of corrections issued by The Dispatch as we aim to be as transparent as possible.

Here is what we got wrong in July: thedispatch.com/article/what...

The Autopen Is Popular—and Bipartisan Republicans have questioned the validity of Biden’s autopen signatures, but many in Congress use the same tool.

"Republicans have questioned the validity of Biden’s autopen signatures, but many in Congress use the same tool. Vice President J.D. Vance’s office confirmed that he used an autopen when he was a senator." --Charles Hilu

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Jonah shares an update on our favorite Dispawtcher, Zoë.

Jobs Report Revisions, Explained The Bureau of Labor Statistics revises its jobs reports often to bring a cloudy picture into better focus.

The Labor Department's latest report reveals only 73,000 new jobs were added in July, with the unemployment rate increasing to 4.2%.

Jobs report revisions, explained: thedispatch.com/article/jobs...

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The Dispatch has launched The Next 250, a yearlong project. We’ll spend the year talking about how we can take that baton and build towards a future our Founding Fathers can be proud of.

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How the Second Great Awakening Helped Make America The religious movement shaped individuals’ lives and helped build communities.

"The Second Great Awakening built much of the religious infrastructure that still marks American towns and cities. Thus, if American Christianity collapses, it is that infrastructure that stands to fall." --Thomas S. Kidd, TheNext250:

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The Federal Reserve Holds Rates Steady Faced with tariff-driven uncertainty, the central bankers play the waiting game.

"There’s a fundamental dilemma facing the Federal Reserve and its chairman, Jerome Powell, and it’s not necessarily related to President Donald Trump’s recent attacks on the central bank." Morning Dispatch:

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‘Bidenomics’ at 3: Invisible waste becomes (more) visible.

A look at ghost factories: thedispatch.com/newsletter/c...

In Defense of Sabrina Carpenter’s Nonsense Some music is just fun.

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The American Princess Problem Why we can’t make peace with Meghan Markle.

Read LuElla D'Amico's latest piece: thedispatch.com/article/megh...

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Hunger Games America’s special relationship with Israel is at risk.

"Cutting aid to Israel has become the mainstream position of one of our two major parties in Congress’ upper chamber." --Nick Catoggio

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It’s Just a Pun, People Sydney Sweeney’s new denim ad isn’t a call for a return of the eugenics movement.

"If you have no problem with the term 'good genes' when used by and about black or brown people, but suddenly become outraged when used for a white person—you’re the one with a racial prejudice problem." --@jonahg.bsky.social

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New York Professionals Increasingly Anxious About Zohran Mamdani The Democratic mayoral nominee’s agenda is rattling the suit-and-tie set.

"New York professionals staring down the possibility of Zohran Mamdani as the city’s next mayor are caught somewhere between hopeful and terrified..." --David M. Drucker

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Not Everything Is an Emergency Courts should check the use of presidential power in taking extraordinary measures to address routine problems.

"Congress should also take a more active role by imposing time limits on emergency declarations and making clear they can only be used in strictly limited, extraordinary circumstances." --Ilya Somin

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A Famous Conservative, Liberal With People William F. Buckley Jr.’s greatest quality may have been his benevolence.

“Again and again, the great gatekeeper of conservatism has a very difficult time holding those gates closed.” --James P. Sutton

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Is AI on the Verge of an Economic Takeover? Optimistic forecasts about AI-driven growth coincide with job market concerns.

Is AI on the Verge of an Economic Takeover? Morning Dispatch: thedispatch.com/newsletter/m...

The Most Dangerous Branch Emil Bove and the dawn of the MAGA judiciary.

"The courts are the last holdout against right-wing postliberalism. There are no political worlds left for America’s scummiest populists to conquer—except the judiciary." --Nick Catoggio | Boiling Frogs

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It’s Just a Pun, People Sydney Sweeney’s new denim ad isn’t a call for a return of the eugenics movement.

It’s just a pun, people. Sydney Sweeney’s new denim ad isn’t a call for a return of the eugenics movement. --Jonah Goldberg | G-File

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Why MAGA Is Growing Frustrated With Donald Trump Letting Trump be Trump isn’t working out the way his base thought it would.

"The MAGA faithful are increasingly frustrated by the fact that Trump doesn’t always share, or prioritize, that ideology. They believed that if you just 'let Trump be Trump,' he would follow their conception of MAGA." -- @jonahg.bsky.social

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