The Ricochet Superfeed

We’re a day and a half late with this episode, but better late than never. It’s just Steve and Lucretia this week—John Yoo will be back for the next one—and they spend the first half of the episode updating some of last week’s main stories while noting that instead of dying down, they have intensified. […]

The news cycle is ending the week with absolute chaos. An alleged ISIS supporter is accused of plotting an attack on the New York State Capitol, while Scott Jennings’ rumored future at the White House has Hasan Piker threatening legal action. Meanwhile, the drama surrounding Candace Owens and Turning Point USA continues to escalate. Andrew […]

Join Jim and Greg for the Friday 3 Martini Lunch as they consider Mike Rogers finding plenty of Democrats to endorse him publicly in the Michigan Senate race, Florida Democrat/Socialist Senate nominee Angie Nixon saying Republicans are trying to kill black people, the U.S. Navy reportedly considering removing the name of a World War II […]

On this edition of The Federalist Radio Hour, Jack Salmon, a Gibbs scholar and research fellow at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center, joins Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to analyze why Americans flee blue states for red ones and explain what this signals about the state of the economy. Read more from Salmon here. The Federalist Foundation […]

It’s just James and Charles this week at the post: Post-elections in Florida, Minnesota, and South Carolina – post-mortem on l’affaire de Arday – and the post-partum madness of Lindsay Clancy, who is on trial in Massachusetts for murdering her three children and receiving an inexplicably large amount of support. Opening sound this week: Sen. […]

Erick Erickson opens Open Line Friday with Isaac Newton’s laws of motion and argues that American politics now runs on the third one: every action produces an equal and opposite reaction, and nothing is left to slow either side down. He reads The Economist’s warning that superintelligent AI with legal rights could turn humans into […]

Erick Erickson turns the second law of thermodynamics into an economics lesson and lands it on Seattle: Starbucks is cutting 224 corporate jobs, including 120 employees who refused to move to Nashville, and between Brian Niccol’s restructuring and Amazon’s exodus, Washington State’s progressives have taxed and regulated their own economy cold while Nashville takes 1,500 […]

Erick Erickson closes Open Line Friday with the cleanest explanation yet of why Americans hate data centers: it is not the water, the power bills, or the fake claim that vibrations cause miscarriages, it is that the arguments against fracking failed while the arguments against data centers are landing, and the only difference is the […]

Donald Trump and Michael Cohen have reconciled — and now they’re speaking publicly together for the first time since their dramatic fallout. They revisit their fractured relationship, the investigations and battles that drove them apart, and why they chose forgiveness and reconciliation.Trump and Cohen also tackle Iran, nuclear weapons, political weaponization, assassination threats, the economy, […]

America is undergoing a technological revolution across artificial intelligence, space exploration, software, genetic engineering, and other industries that will shape the future. U.S. companies dominate many of the world’s most valuable technology sectors, while American AI platforms account for most of the services people around the world use every day. SpaceX and other American companies […]