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Turn any article into a podcast. Upgrade now to start listening. Members can share articles with friends & family to bypass the paywall. You’re reading The Weekly, a Saturday morning recap of the best Dispatch content of the week, with some additional commentary from Managing Editor Rachael Larimore. Hello and happy Saturday.

Turn any article into a podcast. Upgrade now to start listening. Members can share articles with friends & family to bypass the paywall. You’re reading Dispatch Culture, our weekend newsletter featuring essays about American culture, staff recommendations, book reviews, and more. Happy Saturday! In cities across America, you can see historical transformations everywhere: the bank turned into an Apple store, the chemist’s turned into a cafe, the library turned into an … Apple store.

Peacefully anchored on the Potomac, the HMS Remnant rocks gently from side to side. Captain Jonah Goldberg, peg leg and all, stands at the prow gazing at the darkening horizon. To the west, the storm clouds of AI apocalypse are gathering. In the east, a midterm squall quickly bears down. In such portentous circumstances, there’s only one thing for a man to do.

The college environment is just as important as book learning. Students prepare a display for a holiday ceremony on the campus of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, December 7, 2016. (Photo via Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images). Students prepare a display for a holiday ceremony on the campus of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, December 7, 2016. (Photo via Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images). Turn any article into a podcast. Upgrade now to start listening.

Even a place as man-made as Anthem can’t help but get a little democratic. Photo by Joe Pitts. Turn any article into a podcast. Upgrade now to start listening. Members can share articles with friends & family to bypass the paywall. Winding through brush and bloom is a road. Unpaved, loosely formed. It snakes under the wide blue sky of the West, in the long shadow of craggy mountains and hills that reach up to the sky and pierce the clouds.

Turn any article into a podcast. Upgrade now to start listening. Members can share articles with friends & family to bypass the paywall. You’re reading Boiling Frogs, Nick Catoggio’s daily newsletter featuring sharp, introspective commentary on populism, polarization, and the gradual erosion of American conservatism.

Turn any article into a podcast. Upgrade now to start listening. Members can share articles with friends & family to bypass the paywall. You’re reading the G-File, Jonah Goldberg’s twice-weekly “news”letter providing his unique—and humorous—take on politics and culture. Dear Reader (even those of you involved in the Guinness heist.

Turn any article into a podcast. Upgrade now to start listening. Members can share articles with friends & family to bypass the paywall. You’re reading The Morning Dispatch, our flagship daily newsletter breaking down all the news you need to know today.

A brief history of this Pentagon’s sordid attempts to control the narrative. Illustration by Noah Hickey/The Dispatch (Photos via Getty Images). Illustration by Noah Hickey/The Dispatch (Photos via Getty Images). Turn any article into a podcast. Upgrade now to start listening. Members can share articles with friends & family to bypass the paywall.

From Walmart to Whole Foods, stiff competition and low margins mean grocers must be tuned in to consumer preferences. People shop for groceries at a supermarket in Manhattan on August 25, 2026, in New York City. (Photo by Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images) People shop for groceries at a supermarket in Manhattan on August 25, 2026, in New York City. (Photo by Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images) Turn any article into a podcast. Upgrade now to start listening.