Andrew Exum

STEPHEN A: I want to ADDRESS this issue. [Financial Times reporter nods] You KNOW I have always trusted CPI as a measure of inflation FT: Absolutely STEPHEN A: BUT I think we must also consider personal consumption expenditures when considering interest rates

Kacey Musgraves really is the best of Texas. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/u...

Agreed. The essay that will convince you that you haven’t been thinking about The Dollar enough. Really enlightening!

Am I missing something? It seems like the security system did exactly what it was supposed to do. This kind of reporting encourages “zero-risk” cultures that lead to even more obtrusive physical barriers in our everyday lives. www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...

The idea that a student op-ed was deemed a threat to national security … a nation run by incompetent and fearful snowflakes

The world class medical center at the American University of Beirut, my alma mater, has been treating many of the children wounded in last week’s assault on Beirut. My family and I donated to the emergency fund here if you would like to do so as well. www.aub.edu.lb/advancement/...

I predicted this week that ending U.S. military support to the IDF (currently ~$3.8 billion annually) would be the official position of the Democratic Party within 10 years and think I probably overestimated the time required by as many as 9.5 years. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

It’s been wild to read the News side of the Wall Street Journal alongside the Opinion side during this war. These people are watching two different wars.

The ceasefire and negotiations mark the beginning of the end of the war. I spent a little time thinking about what will have changed when the shooting finally stops. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I’m increasingly of the view that anyone who wants to opine on the Middle East needs to do a three-month internship at Exxon or Aramco as part of their training.

Look at the picture of this guy. This was back before the days of weight-lifting and creatine. What a unit! www.stripes.com/veterans/202...

Editor’s Note redstate.com/rc-maxwell/2...

There’s a lot of stuff going on here, but this lady is almost certainly going to jail, and I have no idea who would ever talk to this journalist. Sounds like he has completely burned his source. www.wsls.com/news/nationa...

A fun thing to do is to read the News part of the Wall Street Journal alongside the Edit side. The former tells the business world what it needs to hear, and the latter tells the business world what it wants to hear. Currently side by side: www.wsj.com/us-news/law/... & www.wsj.com/opinion/abou...

“Mr. Buria told Mr. Driscoll that President Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events, the officials said.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

This, from eight years ago, by Jake Sullivan, ended up being very prescient and correct. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Put Iran aside. Calling the war to defeat the Islamic State — a war carried out by an 87-nation coalition! — a war “manufactured by Israel” is some wild stuff, and progressives should avoid cheering this rift on. This is a harbinger of anti-liberal, anti-Semitic, right-wing rhetoric to come.

Everyone will be quick to point out how Vietnam ended, but my favorite part of this is about how our military is somehow “leashed” under Pete Hegseth. Which just goes to show how there will always be some idiot finance bro in NYC claiming we’re fighting wars with one hand tied behind our backs.

I firmly believe we need to close the borders — but only to this specific German man. He is a menace. gothamist.com/food/theres-...

The New York Times, with supporting testimony today from the Secretary of State himself, reports that Israel dragged the United States into war with Iran. This is … not great. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

Not saying he should fire the Secretary of Labor, but I will say that this would be a really good time to do so and have no one notice. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

As someone once responsible for improving the integrated air and missile defenses of our Arab Gulf partners, I want to congratulate the Kuwaitis on their, um, uh, unprecedented success in this regard.

I was in Nashville for a funeral yesterday and caught up with my best friend over drinks before heading to the airport. Saw a guy walk into the bar at 2:15pm, open a bottle of Pedialyte he brought with him, and start chugging it alongside his alcohol. Next level stuff going on in Middle Tennessee.

If you’ve been following this ecological disaster taking place in the Potomac River, and the politics of it, I should probably tell you that my wife is to sewage mishaps what John Madden was to NFL games. podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/1012-a-giant...

Best of luck to any Republicans running for office in Michigan this year. This is one of the most unbelievable stories of corruption I have read since that last story about corruption from last week. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/w...

I can, sadly, understand a business case for the Washington Post dropping its Metro, World, and Sports coverage and doubling down on political and regulatory journalism. Can’t understand what was more important for Will Lewis to do today than attend that meeting, though. Just POS leadership.

Minneapolis 2026 youtu.be/Sp-AhVql7I0?...

I hope every Democratic foreign policy official who served in the Biden Administration and/or hopes to serve again noticed what Benjamin Netanyahu just said about Joe Biden allegedly starving the IDF of ammunition in Gaza.

say what you like about Saruman but at least he was a YIMBY

It’s says a lot about the state of the Department of Justice that the person they found to argue on behalf of the U.S. government here has been at DOJ for less than two months and is three years out of law school at the University of Florida. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Man, yesterday was a real banner day for people with “Follower of Christ” in their Twitter bios as well as those ladies who yell at Evangelical Pastors when they flirt with progressive political thoughts.

Congratulations to everyone who has taken Bridge Colby seriously and helped along his career for the last two decades.

The Trump Administration continues to seize the means of production. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

I love this! Spent three days hunting in the week after Christmas. Shot two deer, which I then skinned and butchered in my garage. They’re now in the freezer and will last us until mid-summer.

It is, we all have to admit, very funny to respond to Exxon’s statement saying they don’t want to invest in Venezuela by not allowing them to invest in Venezuela. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

If you asked a conservative Texan, or Tennessean, between the years of 1993-2001 or 2009-2017, what they would do if masked federal police came into their town and killed an unarmed person …

Great day to have functioning eyes and a working brain

Gianni Infantino is responsible for this. As long as Trump held out hope for the Nobel Prize, he was not going to go to war in Venezuela. But that dang FIFA Peace Price has satiated his appetite for peace, freeing him up for war. I say all of this only 5/6 jokingly.

This is not hard. Artists are not responsible for ensuring the Kennedy Center remains relevant and successful. The center’s board is responsible for that, in a fiduciary way. All of this energy being directed at artists should be re-directed at the board.

Polling suggests Israel is historically unpopular in the demographic corresponding with people likely to have small children, so I need someone smarter than me to explain how picking a fight with Ms. Rachel of all people makes any sense whatsoever. nypost.com/2025/12/26/o...

A wild statistic from @katie0martin.ft.com here. www.ft.com/content/a9f5...

Can’t help but think some people would love for this to all be about journalism standards and best practices and not, say, the rendition of human beings to some medieval dungeon without due process.

On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

Okay, but which New York Times columnist would it be *funniest* were we to discover they were tied up with Epstein, and why is it Gail Collins?

"You see, your holiness, there are 8 to 12 players. Two wizards. A maverick. The arbiter. Two warriors. A corporal, and a ledgerman. Now the ledgerman just keeps score, and he wears this hat"