Will Don Jr. Be Left Holding the Bag?

On the first Sunday in August, President Donald Trump was up early and tweeting. “Fake News reporting, a complete fabrication, that I am...

Everything You Need to Know about Tuesday's Primaries

On Tuesday night, the 2018 election will head north: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Vermont, and Connecticut will all hold important primaries. And these...

China to Buy American Manufacturer?

“Many @harleydavidson owners plan to boycott the company if manufacturing moves overseas,” President Donald Trump tweeted on Monday. “Great!...

What To Expect From 2018’s ‘Pink Wave’

More women than ever are running for elected office in 2018. The surge is attributable to the potent confluence of factors: Hillary Clinton’s...

The Alt-Right Isn't Right

On Sunday I went to Lafayette Square to observe the Unite the Right 2 rally and the counter-protests. As has become well known, the Unite the Right...

Omarosa v. Trump's Other 'Best People'

Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, editor at large Bill Kristol joins guest host Jim Swift to discuss Omarosa Manigault's return to the center of...

Former White House Staffer: NDA "Snuck in With" Other New Employee Paperwork

President Trump’s escalating digs at ex-aide Omarosa Manigault Newman over her gossipy new tell-all have brought new scrutiny to this White...

Prufrock: How to Organize Your Books, Clone Your Pet, and Fly Fish in the Bronx

In The Times Literary Supplement, Mary Beard writes about the difficulty of organizing books: “Every so often—when I come to try to organise the...

Welcome to Tariff Town, USA

Denny Mertz of Chesterfield, Mo., knows a thing or two about farm crises. He’d only been in the ag business a few years when the last big one...

Afternoon Links: Death to Mayo, Seb's Fake Biz Cards, and the Northeast Blackout

Millennials v. Mayonnaise. Definitely read this article on the latest victim of the tastes of my generation and why it's such a loss. But are...

White House Spox Sarah Sanders Won't Disclose Whether She Signed an NDA

During a briefing on Tuesday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders declined to comment on questions surrounding the unprecedented use...

Six Questions About Trump's White House NDAs

For the first time we have confirmation from the administration of a fact Ruth Marcus reported earlier this year: That at least some of Donald...

How Trump Crushed the Climate Change Hysterics

Thirteen years ago, a Republican president who had pulled the United States out of an onerous climate treaty faced isolation at the annual...

The NFL Doesn’t Care About You, Or Your Service

Last year, when the kneeling controversy erupted like a California wildfire and the president launched a series of attacks on the NFL and Colin...

Confirmed: Trump's White House Staffers Signed NDAs

Omarosa is not the most credible former Trump White House staffer, but she seems to be right about one thing. The one-time Apprentice villain was...

How Donald Trump Brought Rick Perry Out of Retirement

O n November 21, 2016, Rick Perry stepped out of an elevator in Trump Tower and into the first proper job interview of his life. Perry had worked as...

Jeremy Corbyn: Useful Idiot

Jeremy Corbyn, leader of Britain’s Labour party, is a man of prin­ciple. Unfortunately, all his principles are noxious. He is an anti-Semite, a...

Mark Zaid: 'Any NDA that extends beyond classified information would be unconstitutional.'

President Donald Trump and his allies have recently touted the existence of nondisclosure agreements with White House employees as a response to...

Fact Check: Are Police Trained to Look for a 'Black Dot' as a Secret Signal From Abuse Victims?

In the late 1800s, Robert Louis Stevenson devised the “ black spot ” for his novel Treasure Island. Pirates would give a circular piece of...

Prufrock: Langston Hughes’s Birthdate, Playing Verdi on Repeat for 16 Years, and Canova’s Washington

I’m not going to link to an essay in The Atlantic on why poetry matters because, well, it’s not really about poetry. ( Fine. Here it is.) It’s...

Afternoon Links: Studying Twins, the Iraqi Spy Inside ISIS, and the Kid Who Hits 'Dingers'

The twin studies. As my baby girls near a year, Priscilla Jensen shares this fascinating read on one of nature’s little miracles: the strange...

Meet the Footsoldiers in Trump’s Trade War

The flatbed trucks come from as far away as Chicago and Minneapolis. They roll past the cornfields and grain silos of northwest Iowa and pull into...

It’s Tiger for a New Generation

Before Sunday, it had been 10 summers since Tiger Woods celebrated making his final putt of a major with his signature fist pump. Even for him,...

Delay, Delay, Delay

Thanks to Harry Reid, Senate Democrats don't have a lot of options in opposing the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Back in...

Angry Kitsch

P resident Donald Trump grips the knot of Robert Mueller’s necktie with a clenched left fist while his right hand shoves a magnifying glass into...

The Mom Crunch

“I thought this parenting lark was supposed to get easier.” Thus gripes Kate Reddy to a friend after finding out that her daughter’s...

Chance of a Lifetime

S heila Heti’s novels turn on questions. In her first, Ticknor , the narrator sets out to attend a friend’s party and agonizes over the demise of...

The Fashion of This World Passeth Away

T he marketing for Heavenly Bodies , the blockbuster show now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, would have you believe it centers on a certain...

Trump's Economy Might Not Be Enough to Save the House

With the November congressional elections only 87 days away, Donald Trump has added to his revolutionary use of tweets what might prove to be an...

In Missouri, Claire McCaskill and Josh Hawley in Dead Heat

Last Tuesday, Missouri attorney general Josh Hawley won the Republican senate primary, setting him up to take on Democratic incumbent Claire...

NYC Cracks Down on Ride-Sharing

Technological change can be frightening, even in such a bastion of enlightenment as New York City. How else to explain the Big Apple’s decision...

’Merica

A July 27 game between the Houston Astros and the Texas Rangers featured a few minutes of pointless delight. Chris White, a Marine veteran, made...

Manafort: The Torturers’ Lobbyist of Choice

When potential clients crossed the threshold into his dark and paneled office not far from the White House, Clark Clifford would give them a little...

George Conway: Omarosa's Claim That Trump Used Racist Slurs About Him "Ridiculous"

George Conway said Friday morning that former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman’s claims that President Donald Trump used racist phrases...

Rubio Goes Nationalist

In June 2016, Marco Rubio changed his mind and announced that he would not be retiring from the Senate as he had planned. A major reason he was...

Fusion for Dummies

Election season is upon us, and you know what that means—idiotic trickery dreamed up by campaign hacks and political consultants. Consider: New...

Patronizing the Revolutionaries

In Europe and North America, museums just can’t win. It takes wealthy people and large corporations to keep them operating, but left-wing artists...

Fact Check: It Depends!

The fact-checking industry has grown tremendously in recent years, and mostly for good reason. Half-truths, outrageous rumors, and outright...

Disband the Team

Is The Scrapbook the only one who’s grown weary of the word team used where it doesn’t belong—outside the world of sports? For a year or two...

Trump Lawyers

'The Midterm Election Nobody Wants to Win'

Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, Blake Hounshell, editor in chief of Politico Magazine joins host Charlie Sykes to discuss recent primaries,...

Prufrock: Justin Bieber Reads Tim Keller, Matt Groening’s New Animated Series, and in Defense of Hunting

I don’t listen to Justin Bieber’s music or watch much soccer, but I am going to include both in today’s round-up. Why? Books. You may or may not...

Editorial: The Trump Tower Republicans

"This was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics—and it went nowhere. I did not know about...

Afternoon Links: The Dorm Room of Things, Weird Al Blesses the Rain, and Lettuce Go Viral?

Iceberg, the superior lettuce. The cultural elites at the New Yorker have spoken . Laura Ingraham isn’t even hiding it anymore. Devastating...