Your stories of the week:

• A Texas man faces more jail time for cheating at a bass tournament than some do for murder
• Speaking of getting away with murder... It's good to be a Democrat
• NYT economist on "affordablity"
• A bad week for the Jews?

Ann interviews the author on her new book, A Better Life (released February 10, 2026).

A brilliant and hilarious. novel about the state of immigration in our country. Despite being eminently fair to both sides, most liberal reviewers are kvetching because they only wanted to hear one side.

From The Atlantic (of all places): [Shriver] has a wry observational intelligence that propels her well beyond her personal orbit. She is also adept at unpacking psychological states and analyzing relationships with almost clinical incisiveness. Her writing is witty, and startlingly precise.

• Author of 18 books, including: We Need to Talk About Kevin
• Mania
• The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047

Your Five Stories of the Week starts with the first State of the Union speech from Trump 2.0

Your Five Stories for the Week:

• Weepy details and the Ann's "Stew Exemption" for Illegal Aliens
• Thomas Friedman on the politics of Middle East policy
• The New York Times and the Epstein Files
• The Prince formally known as Andrew arrested
• The winners of the Times' Teen Narrative Contest

Jonathan Leaf is a playwright, screenwriter, author and journalist, who’s won a slew of awards, has been compared to Saul Bellow for his “literacy and seriousness,” has written a half-dozen books, and also written for The New Yorker, The New York Post, The New York Daily News, The American, National Review, The New Partisan, The New York Press, The Weekly Standard and The New York Sun.

His latest book, The Primate Myth, upends the common knowledge that humans are a subspecies of ape. Primatologists Jane Goodall and Frans de Waal were completely wrong. If anything, we are a subspecies of dog. Modern technology proves it, and, by giving us an accurate portrait of human nature, explains our penchant for sports, fashion, war, altruism, financial bubbles, suicide and homosexuality, among many other things.

This week's stories:

• 11 million “hotties”
• Hawley crushes Ellison
• Dems’ terror of clean elections
• 2 assignments for listeners
• Bloomberg won on lung cancer.

The "outrage" over 5-year old Liam Ramos being taken into custody with his illegal immigrant father, Adrian, reminds Ann of a legal immigrant with a very different outcome under a Democratic Administration.

Plus a "scandalous" data breach in Cleveland!

Tara Jakeway is an Edward R. Murrow & Emmy Award winning TV Reporter in NYC and South Florida, and a former producer on Fox’s classic Red Eye — but she got her start as a segment producer on The Jerry Springer Show.

Ann was transfixed by her stories at dinner one night and decided to interview her on Unsafe.

The 5 Stories of the Week!

• Don Lemon arrested
• Column update: So When Can We Slander Victims Of The Police?
• Budweiser's new Super Bowl ad
• Weight loss drugs and the airlines
• A novel idea for public schools

How the actions of Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy should guide Trump's response to the events surrounding the anti-ICE protests.

Plus: Confessions of Conservative Dead Head. RIP, Bob Weir.