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In 2019, Trump told Ilhan Omar to go back where she came from. In 2026, federal agents raided her home to make sure she finally got his message. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/trump-order-raid-of-ilhan-omars-home Read more.
Trump has resurrected Columbus, not from the dead but from historical disgrace. And his White House statue honors more than a discredited explorer. It’s a monument to the comforting fiction that conquest was discovery, dispossession was progress, and White men alone made history. After all, iPINIONS contends, why bother rewriting history when you can carve… Read more.
Famous parents have become Fashion Week’s hottest accessory. But iPINIONS contends that behind the glamour of their nepo babies strutting inherited privilege lurks a psychological price nobody wants to discuss. See my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/nepo-babies-the-moral-hazard-of-inherited Read more.
The Yankees have spent 17 years proving that money can’t buy championships, though the Steinbrenners seem determined to keep testing that theory. After another humiliating playoff sweep, even my schadenfreude has given way to pity. iPINIONS laments that baseball’s richest perennial losers have stopped being funny and started being pathetic. See my full take on… Read more.
Tucker Carlson doesn’t debate. He provokes, monetizes the outrage, then waits for the clips to go viral. iPINIONS comments on how Jacob Rees-Mogg walked into that racket and, improbably enough, became the adult in the room. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/rees-mogg-plays-straight-man-on-tucker Read more.
Brazil’s runoff is about more than Lula versus another Bolsonaro. iPINIONS contends it’s about whether voters will spring the father through the son, reward Trump’s meddling, or hand the would-be emperor another humiliating lesson in unintended consequences. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/flavio-bolsonaro-leads-into-presidential Read more.
Beth Harmon was fiction. Bodhana Sivanandan is 11, British, brilliant, and already making chess history. Meet the real Queen’s Gambit. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/the-real-queens-gambit-is-11-year Read more.
John Roberts doesn’t rant like MAGA. He does something more consequential. Behind the robes and institutionalist pose lies a jurisprudence that has steadily expanded presidential power, weakened democratic guardrails, and left Trump free to act first while everyone else litigates the wreckage. iPINIONS argues that the conjurer may recoil at the monster, but he helped… Read more.
Republicans hauled Jack Smith before Congress to punish him for prosecuting Trump. iPINIONS argues the farce says less about Smith than about a party still willing to bend law, truth, and institutional power around one man. See my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/republicans-persecute-jack-smith Read more.
Too little is being made of Pope Leo XIV’s extraordinary popularity and influence on the world stage. As Trump forfeits America’s claim to lead the free world, iPINIONS contends that the first American pope is filling the vacuum with the moral authority Trump has squandered. Paris offered the latest proof. See my full take on… Read more.
