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Political betting markets still have plenty of action despite end of election season

Political betting markets do not end after an election, with several platforms already allowing betting on everything future elections to President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet.

New Republican Governors chair, pointing to campaign battles ahead, touts ‘our policies are better’

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, the new chair of the Republican Governors Association, aims to build on the momentum of the 2024 elections and looks ahead to the next gubernatorial showdowns.

Inside how podcasters moved the voting needle with young men ahead of Trump’s massive win

President-elect Trump joined his first podcast in 2022 with the Nelk Boys, ahead of joining dozens of podcasts and earning support through an initiative called Send the Vote.

Bhattacharya is a strong pick to head NIH

Senators may still have some real substantive concerns about President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as head of Health and Human Services, but his decision to tap Dr. Jay Bhattacharya as director of the National Institutes of Health is the right choice. A Stanford University professor of economic and health policy, […]

A second-chance Super Bowl for second-place cities

Here is a tale of two once-great cities. They lost their steel mills and auto plants. The factories went quiet. The populations dwindled. In spite of that, they never lost their football teams, which became sources of ragged pride amid snowy desolations. Now, these survivors stand at the edge of something spectacular. A Super Bowl […]

Conclave proves fallible

Let it not be said that Conclave, the new film about the selection of a new pope from director Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front) and screenwriter Peter Straughan (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), is dishonest. I found it fascinating, unsentimental, and exceptionally keen in its understanding of human nature. Nevertheless, there is, at […]

Success has many fathers, but Gladiator II is an orphan

The original Gladiator is Ridley Scott’s magnum opus and remains one of the best films since the turn of the century. The script, despite being written on the fly, had great lines. Everyone old enough to have watched the original remembers “Are you not entertained?” and “What we do in life echoes in eternity.” These […]

Kevin Killian’s user experience

There is something inherently ridiculous about Kevin Killian’s posthumously published Selected Amazon Reviews. The book takes great pains to show it is very aware of this and to make sure the reader is just as aware. It is evident right there on its cover, puckishly aping the Library of America’s canonical majesty. It continues beneath […]

Is mowing your lawn really the end of the world?

President-elect Donald Trump has promised a mass deportation of illegal immigrants once he takes office, and while many people are over-selling what he will be able to achieve, the picture his open-borders opponents are painting of an illegal immigrant-free United States is just not as dire as they think. Estimates on the size of the […]

The youth are feeling Trumpy

It wasn’t that long ago that the phrase “the children are our future” was a source of consternation among Republicans who believed young people were overwhelmingly embracing the Democratic Party. No one told that to President-elect Donald Trump, who has found a new fanbase with Generation Z. A new poll from CBS and YouGov has […]

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