The Fifth Column

-Welch enters his Charles Nelson Reilly era
-Laura Branigan, Happy Mondays, and songs you didn’t know were covers
-Puerto Rico’s revenge
-The cadres are closing in
-Reihan Salam and Larry Flynt
-DAC hits the media circuit and refuses to answer the easiest question in politics
-Aber Kawas explains 9/11, in a Miss South Carolina sort of way
-Vaporware word clouds masquerading as policy
-No borders, no prisons, no TSA PreCheck… no joke
-Nationalizing airlines, abolishing comfort, and calling it justice
-Mamdani’s machine, the DSA bench, and the Democratic Party’s growing nervous breakdown
-Polymarket vs. the polls
-The internet is not a socialist invention, no matter how hard socialists try
-Senate Republicans discover Trump skepticism several years too late
-The SAVE Act tantrum and the incredible courage of people who already lost
-Tucker, Trump, Iran, inflation, and the limits of MAGA obedience
-Peter Thiel’s terrifying secret network of people talking at conferences
-Moynihan goes to Dialog and accidentally joins the Illuminati
-Kmele reports back from the alleged cabal
-Bohemian Grove was cooler because at least you had to break in
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Michael A. Cohen is a columnist for MSNOW, a senior fellow at Tufts University’s Fletcher School, and co-director of its Afghanistan Assumptions Project. He also writes the Truth and Consequences newsletter. He is not the former fixer of Donald Trump.
-The correct Michael Cohen stops by
-Mamdani flexes in the primaries and three congress critters cometh
-DAC gets worse the more…

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-Ethnicity as performance
-Manhattan politics with the president of the Manhattan Institute
-Dan Goldman orders coffee, receives moral instruction
-The many political personalities of Brad Lander
-Taxpayer-funded activism and the Office of Mass Engagement
-Mamdani and the borg beneath the campaign
-AOC, cadres, and disciplined political parties
-Gaza as the om…

-Kmele debuts his Sebastian Bach beach jeans
-The Iran deal is like the JCPOA, but a lot worse
-Lebanon sneaks into a U.S.-Iran deal
-Strait of Hormuz, 60-day promises, and negotiating with hostage-takers
-Why can’t the hawks ever learn?
-Ukraine brings the war home to Russia
-Drones, oil refineries, and the new cost of war
-Europe wakes up… sort of
-Meloni jabs her digits at Trump
-Polymarket checks the damage in Israeli politics
-as well as NY-13 and the rise of the DSA
-Hamilton Heights is Gaza now
-Mamdani’s little machine comes for Dan Goldman
-Gaza replaces BLM as the Democratic purity test
-The long-term problem with Mamdani economics
-Gavin Newsom vs. Trump’s DOJ
-The New York Times makes the Epstein suicide case
-Tucker, Trump, Loomer, and the inevitable reunion
-Baseball is gay in June
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Batya Ungar-Sargon, host of Batya! on NewsNation, returns!!! And with a new book, The Jews and the Left, about antisemitism, anti-Zionism, and why so much of the modern left has made Jews the enemy.
-JD Vance, Tucker, and the anti-Israel right
-The Iran deal, Rubio’s silence, and Trump’s trial balloon
-What Batya got wrong about the war
-Could Trump have sold the war better?