July 9, 2025 Issue

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Digital Edition

FEATURE

The 12-day war: Israel and Trump have redrawn the map of the Middle East

by Dominic Green

✪ The presidents and Iran, a history

by Tevi Troy

✪ The ‘anti-Zionist’ threat: American Jews increasingly the target of anti-Israel violence

by Melissa Langsam Braunstein

✪ The state of the conservative legal movement is strong

by Ilya Shapiro

✪ McDonald’s vs. the media: There will never be another political showman like Trump

by Salena Zito

Your Land

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Low-trust America

by Timothy P. Carney

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The merchant of America gets married in Venice

by Tiana Lowe Doescher

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Sex sells, even for sandwich shops

by Emma Fuentes

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‘Banned’ books for me, book bans for thee

by Zachary Faria

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The real AI threat is the human relationships we lose along the way

by Conn Carroll

Business

BUSINESS

Can Trump make farming great again?

BUSINESS

Fed Chairman Jerome Powell can’t give Trump what he wants

by Tiana Lowe Doescher

Letter From The Editor

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Donald Trump knows one thing

Washington Briefing

Congress tries to ban insider trading by its members

by Kevin R. Kosar

History lesson: The time a US president considered bombing a nuclear facility — but blinked

by Jamie McIntyre

Despite being repeatedly rejected by voters, Stacey Abrams and Beto O’Rourke are considering comeback bids

Public perceptions that party members are emasculated stunt their chances of winning elections

by John Scott Lewinski

The Columnists

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Joe Concha

The angry Left resists as the Right rejoices: A tale of two Independence Days

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Michael Barone

What the 12-day war hath wrought

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Byron York

Early Iran bomb damage spin falls apart

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David Harsanyi

The progressive intifada invades New York

Life & Arts

TV

Hacks and our reconcilable differences

by Nicholas Clairmont

On Culture

The epic, Charlton Heston, and the smallness of Hollywood

Long Life

The foremost cafe intellectual

Life in Uniform

The abandoned eight

Books

Family Friends: Review of Hal Ebbott’s ‘Among Friends’

by Malcolm Forbes

Books

In search of the Indo-Europeans

Books

Last Soldier Standing: Review of ‘Rewriting Hisstory: A Fifty-Year Journey to Uncover the Truth About Alger Hiss’ by Jeff Kisseloff

by David Chambers

Film

F1 for effort

More from the Magazine

Business

Can Trump make farming great again?

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Obituary

Bill Moyers, 1934-2025

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