January 7, 2026 Issue

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Digital Edition

FEATURE

It’s the prices, stupid: The big challenge that lies ahead for Trump and the GOP

by Jeremy Lott

✪ Streaming and social costs: Our souls are at stake in the Warner Bros. Discovery-Netflix deal

by Peter Tonguette

✪ The Heritage Foundation’s former antisemitism task force after its split with the think tank

by Melissa Langsam Braunstein

✪ Year zero for the modern Middle East: Israel reckons with the futility of ‘land for peace’

by Sean Durns

✪ Violence and ‘violence’: What we should make of new campus data on speech

by Graham Hillard

Your Land

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No-rules college basketball

by Conn Carroll

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Happy cows come from Texas now

by Zachary Faria

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Celebrating Christ at Christmas is apparently right-wing

by Timothy P. Carney

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Streaming broke television’s sense of time

by Tiana Lowe Doescher

Business

BUSINESS

Rising unemployment puts threat of AI competition in stark relief

BUSINESS

Trump’s all-in AI push is paying off handsomely, making up for his failed tariffs gamble at least somewhat

by Tiana Lowe Doescher

Letter From The Editor

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

The activism of Mr. Grinch

Washington Briefing

What does the Democratic National Committee have to hide?

When vice presidents are frozen in marble

Trump’s rare earth minerals obsession is part of a national security strategy

by Taylor Millard

The Trump administration’s unfinished business in Gaza

The Columnists

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Dominic Green

Time must have a slop

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Michael Barone

In a gloomy winter, read a couple of classic books

Life & Arts

Books

Salman Rushdie pulls up a chair

by Gustav Jönsson

TV

Stranger Things is the Happy Days of the COVID-19 era

Books

An essayist who remembers

Books

A sprawling history of Mexico

Long Life

Know (how to BS) thyself

Sports

Is a Korean reality show the last honest sport?

by Oliver Bateman

Film

The Force adrift

On Culture

Ralph Lauren’s all-American cultural appropriation

by Will Collins

More from the Magazine

Business

Rising unemployment puts threat of AI competition in stark relief

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Obituary

Norman Podhoretz, 1930-2025

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