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Emily and Lewis report from Minneapolis which has become the dark heart of President Trump's ICE agent immigration crackdown. We patrol the streets with ICE watchers - witnessing a raid alongside the patrollers literally sounding the alarm. We are at a far right rally - watching a January 6th insurrectionist get chased out of town. And we are with people from Somali and Latino communities who describe to us how their lives have been turned upside down by Trump's random and often lawless depor...
The great essayist William Hazlitt observed that there is pleasure in hating. “Without something to hate,”. The post On the Pleasure of Admiring appeared first on First Things
The recent disruption of a church service in St. Paul, Minnesota, by anti-ICE protesters has prompted familiar legal arguments. Commentators invoke the FACE Act, which prohibits interference with an. The post Desecration in Minnesota and the Ecclesiology of Public Worship appeared first on First Things
When news broke last week that the Trump administration had quietly restored federal Planned Parenthood funding, which he had previously cut, pro-life conservatives were understandably upset. Yet, as Elizabeth. The post Is Trump Playing the Long Game on Abortion? appeared first on First Things
The a16z AI Apps team outlines how they are thinking about the AI application cycle and why they believe it represents the largest and fastest product shift in software to date. The conversation places AI in the context of prior platform waves, from PCs to cloud to mobile, and examines where adoption is already translating into real enterprise usage and revenue. They walk through three core investment themes: existing software categories becoming AI-native, new categories where software direc...
The Republican Party’s leadership has made its choice. Pro-lifers need to make theirs
HUD has proposed a rule to end the agency’s use of this pernicious legal doctrine
Glenn Youngkin’s single term was easily one of the most successful of any governor in recent memory