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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.
An Austrian bakery is charging New Yorkers $60 for the same loaf it sells for $16 back home. But perhaps Auer has simply learned what Big Pharma discovered long ago. And so iPINIONS laments that Americans will pay sucker prices. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/america-the-sucker Read more.
Trump keeps warning MAGA Republicans that Democrats are bent on turning America communist. Yet he trashes democratic norms at home while genuflecting before Xi Jinping abroad, treating the Chinese strongman with the kind of deference he rarely shows America’s democratic allies. iPINIONS argues that the hypocrisy is as revealing as the spectacle. Read my full… Read more.
Jayden Daniels has given Washington plenty of reasons to believe in his talent. His body keeps giving the Commanders reasons not to bet their future on him. iPINIONS argues that the echoes of RGIII are becoming impossible to ignore. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/jayden-daniels-is-not-built-for-football Read more.
Trump is rolling out the welcome mat for Iranian leaders while barring Palestinians from the UN General Assembly. iPINIONS argues that the hypocrisy reflects a broader pattern of alienating friends, courting enemies, and turning self-created crises into supposed triumphs. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/us-welcomes-iranians-to-un-general Read more.
Apple’s greatest innovation isn’t manufacturing hardware. It’s manufacturing need, and the obsolescence of common sense. This latest iPINIONS cartoon lampoons the peculiar power of Apple consumerism in an age when everyone is supposedly struggling to afford the basics. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/apple-affordability-crisis-what-affordability Read more.
Robert Kraft apparently thought dropping Macklemore over his pro-Palestinian rhetoric would send a message. Instead, four acts pulled out of Ed Sheeran’s tour. iPINIONS contends that Kraft’s show of muscle has become a lesson in how efforts to punish criticism of Israel can backfire. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/krafts-ultimatum-for-sheeran-to-cut Read more.
