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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 Morning Dispatch, our flagship daily newsletter breaking down all the news you need to know today. Happy National TV Dinner Day! In other food-related news, the Girl Scouts are reportedly launching a new line of cookies for dogs that will go on sale in January. The next step is to get dogs to start using Apple Pay.

Sarah Isgur 0:19 Welcome to Advisory Opinions. I'm Sarah Isgur. That's David French. We've got a few Supreme Court updates for you, both on preferred advertising rates for political committees and Missouri's congressional districts. The Supreme Court has weighted on both, and one of them's a mess. But then we have a wonderful conversation for you on the Insular cases, and after Trump v.

A year after founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated, the organization is trying to maintain a big tent in a fracturing conservative landscape. Charlie Kirk appears at the University of Nevada in Reno on October 8, 2024. (Photo by Andri Tambunan/AFP via Getty Images) Charlie Kirk appears at the University of Nevada in Reno on October 8, 2024. (Photo by Andri Tambunan/AFP via Getty Images) Turn any article into a podcast. Upgrade now to start listening.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and senior officials don’t want to talk about measles. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on August 31, 2026. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images) Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on August 31, 2026. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images) Turn any article into a podcast.

It took years to build our counterterrorism expertise after the 9/11 attacks. As new threats emerge, we need to ensure we have the bench strength to be prepared. Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia. (Photo by Brooks Kraft LLC/Corbis via Getty Images) Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia. (Photo by Brooks Kraft LLC/Corbis via Getty Images) Turn any article into a podcast. Upgrade now to start listening.

Grieving a day—and dad—I don’t remember. Photo via Cat Brennan. Turn any article into a podcast. Upgrade now to start listening. Members can share articles with friends & family to bypass the paywall. Across the country, there are thousands of Americans who remember little if anything from the worst day of their lives. I’m among these young adults who grew up shaped by a day, and a person, we cannot remember. I lost my father, Tom Brennan, in the September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center.

The Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence had problems from the outset and were poorly served by multiple administrations. The Department of Homeland Security main complex iin Washington, D.C. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) The Department of Homeland Security main complex iin Washington, D.C. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Turn any article into a podcast. Upgrade now to start listening.

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. I’m not interested in the Republican midterm convention that begins today in Dallas, but I am interested in elements of it. Click sign up to start receiving your newsletters.

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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 Next Right, a new newsletter from Politics Editor Michael Warren featuring reporting and analysis on the ideological fights within the conservative movement, Republicans looking to seize the post-Trump mantle, and the future of the American right.