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Today:
The Nick Fuentes Spiral
NEWS | 16 November 2025
On Wednesday, I texted Nick Fuentes about being the center of an existential crisis in American conservatism. Fuentes is not the origin of prejudices metastasizing on the right, nor is he the end point. Today, many popular figures among young conservatives espouse some level of ethno-nationalist ideology. Recently leaked chats from Young Republican leaders suggest the same. Carlson offered Fuentes his largest audience yet, but the door has been cracking open for Fuentes for years.

Top Stories:
Why Trump Gets Away With It
NEWS | 16 November 2025
On a hot, drizzly Friday in August more than 51 years ago, I stood with other reporters on a temporary riser outside the East Wing of the White House. Read: White House architecture was an honor system. The leaders of his own party in Congress went to the White House to tell him that he was almost certainly going to be impeached and convicted. But can we trust that as his final word—like his promise, before the wrecking crews went to work, that his new White House ballroom wouldn’t “interfere with the current building”? The Senate and House, under Republican control, have been largely supine as the Trump White House has refused to spend money appropriated by Congress, attempted to gut federal agencies created by Congress, and undertaken military action abroad without congressional authorization.

World:
America Is Taking the Train
NEWS | 16 November 2025
“The sweetest people run the train,” she posted on X, alongside a video of the autumnal landscape rushing by. Read: There is no good way to travel anywhere in AmericaNot everyone will be able to take a train instead of flying, obviously. Last year, 1.2 million people traveled by train for Thanksgiving, a pitiable number relative to the roughly 18 million who flew. Even when that kind of flight isn’t canceled outright, a delay of something like two hours can tilt the math and make taking a train more logical. Amtrak train cars are in many cases decades old, and the railroad is currently short on equipment, which leads to cancellations—followed, sometimes, by seemingly random un-cancellations.

Current Events:
Michael Wolff’s Unsatisfying Explanation for Cozying Up to Epstein
NEWS | 16 November 2025
Many reporters take offense at this depiction of their trade as shamelessly exploitative, but Michael Wolff seems to take inspiration from it. In the emails, Wolff appears to be positioning himself less as a reporter than as a media adviser to Epstein. “I think you should let him hang himself,” Wolff wrote to Epstein about Trump in December 2015. Wolff rightly criticizes others for their warm relationships with Epstein, but the messages reveal his own coziness with him. His Epstein reporting didn’t get the traction he’d hoped it would, and his closeness with Epstein tarnishes his own standing.

News Flash:
Galaxy Brain: The Internet Is a Misery Machine
NEWS | 16 November 2025
And I don’t know that it does, but I don’t know that it doesn’t. And it’s like we’re all shadowboxing this idea of it, because we don’t know what anyone else is consuming. Like, that’s not who he is like; you know, that’s a character in some sense that he’s playing, too. I don’t know what America is, and I don’t know who these people are, ’cause I’ve never heard of that show. Warzel: I think that is actually—I think that’s the direction I wanna push everyone with.

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SPONSORED | 16 November 2025
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Photos of the Week: Dachshund Day, Flying Fish, Wānaka Tree
NEWS | 16 November 2025
Mario Tama / GettyIn an aerial view, motorists wait in line at a large-scale drive-through Thanksgiving meal event on November 8, 2025, in Altadena, California, to receive Thanksgiving food baskets near cleared lots where homes were destroyed in the Eaton Fire. The event aimed to support families from Altadena and Pasadena who were impacted by the fire and was hosted by Brotherhood Crusade and the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation.

Breaking:
The President Who Cried Hoax
NEWS | 16 November 2025
The Epstein files were the most important issue in the world, until they weren’t. “Trump says he will release the Epstein client list if elected,” the right-wing propagandist account Libs of TikTok wrote in September of 2024. Trump is now calling the whole thing a “hoax,” his favorite term to communicate to his supporters that they should ignore any evidence of potential Trump wrongdoing. As long as conservatives believed that the Epstein files would provide a pretext for persecuting “Democrat elites,” it was politically advantageous to speculate about who might be implicated or suggest that those people had Epstein killed. By contrast, the moment that documentation emerged of Trump’s associations with Epstein, his defenders started drawing fine distinctions between different kinds of child sexual abuse, just in case.

Trending:
Something Feels Different About the Economy
NEWS | 16 November 2025
“The numbers are so big, they are hard to comprehend,” Jeff Sommer recently wrote in The New York Times. Sommer was referring to the stock market, which has been on an outrageous tear, with the gains concentrated among a tiny number of unfathomably valuable companies. Nvidia’s $5 trillion valuation last month surpassed the first-ever $4 trillion valuation, which was also achieved by Nvidia, in July. That is exactly what linear graphs of the U.S. stock market look like right now, which suggests that we have achieved escape velocity and entered the vertical part of the curve. In just a few years, a $5 trillion valuation might sound as quaint as a $2,000 two-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn does today.

This Just In:
Four Simple Questions for Marjorie Taylor Greene
NEWS | 16 November 2025
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s critics are starting to think they got her all wrong. Read: Marjorie Taylor Greene knows exactly what she’s doingOn the few occasions when she has been confronted with her past positions and incendiary assertions, Greene has deflected or pleaded ignorance. But long before Fuentes joined Carlson, Greene joined Fuentes. But it poses a question: Does Greene agree with either Fuentes or Carlson about Hitler, Black people, women, and the rest? “Everybody’s like, ‘Marjorie Taylor Greene has changed,’” she said of herself on The View.

Today:
Sympathy for a Handsome Devil
NEWS | 16 November 2025
It’s hard to know why anyone should feel a pang of understanding for Jay Kelly (played by George Clooney), but Baumbach relishes the challenge. Jay Kelly is Baumbach’s fourth movie in a row that will be released to Netflix, with a short theatrical release. His last work was a fascinating, flawed, staggeringly ambitious adaptation of Don DeLillo’s White Noise; with Jay Kelly, he’s charting a gentler, more familiar path, in terms of plot and setting. And Jay gets to have a particularly luxe midlife crisis, fueled by the resources of a rich movie star. The final notes of Jay Kelly are played for pure sympathy, and it’s Baumbach’s biggest storytelling gamble.

Top Stories:
The Dumb Truth at the Heart of the Epstein Scandal
NEWS | 16 November 2025
Others get the communal adrenaline rush of frantically “CTRL-F”-ing a House Oversight Committee trove of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails. In some instances, Epstein responds pompously (“Needs edit,” he wrote in one message, when asked to forward an invitation). Read: You really need to see Epstein’s birthday book for yourselfBut perhaps most striking is how unimpressive Epstein seems. (Reached through a spokesperson about his email correspondence with Epstein, Chopra told me, “I’m always cognizant of Dr. and patient privilege. “I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump,” Epstein wrote in 2011 to Ghislaine Maxwell, his co-conspirator, who is serving time in prison for child sex-trafficking.

World:
Epstein Returns at the Worst Time for Trump
NEWS | 16 November 2025
“The Democrats are trying to bring up the Jeffrey Epstein hoax again” to distract from the shutdown, Trump posted. For months, White House aides have snapped at reporters who even mentioned the word Epstein. Four of them—Mace, Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Thomas Massie—defied Trump to vote with Democrats this week on the Epstein discharge position. Few people in the White House believe that the Epstein matter will swing many votes next year. Read: Donald Trump is a lamer duck than everTrump is set to depart Washington tomorrow for another weekend at Mar-a-Lago, according to the White House.

Current Events:
20 U.S. Boat Strikes in Three Months
NEWS | 16 November 2025
Claims that the dead were involved in drug trafficking, though never much evidence to back it up. Third, even if they had been found guilty, no federal law establishes the death penalty for drug trafficking. And CNN reported this week that British officials have decided to stop sharing intelligence about suspected drug trafficking in the Caribbean because they believe the boat strikes are illegal. One useful way to understand the boat strikes might be to compare them to threatened or executed National Guard deployments in several U.S. cities. Instead, the boat strikes seem to be a cover for a huge military deployment designed to oust Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, as The Atlantic reports.

News Flash:
Doomscrolling in the 1850s
NEWS | 16 November 2025
The precise causes of the panic were fuzzy, though there were plenty of newspapers and magazines ready to venture explanations. Book publishing and magazines expanded at no less prodigious rates: The 1850s saw the publication of Atlantic founding contributor Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which became a best seller of previously almost unimaginable proportions. There were magazines dedicated to just about every subculture, health fad, and reform movement: photography, phrenology, abolition, and more. At a long dinner in the spring of 1857, the group resolved on going forward with the venture. Subsequent events, beginning with the Civil War, would show that the world was not, in fact, anchored anywhere.