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December 2025

Get Out the Vought
Imagine Chuck Colson being Nixon's hatchet man AND evangelizing for Jesus AT THE SAME TIME and you've got Trump's White House budget director.
 • Timothy Noah
Boxing Day Update on the Cohen Building
"It appears that adaptive reuse is not on the agenda right now."
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Cost-Benefit Analysis, RIP
Ronald Reagan invented it for new regulations. Democrats eventually embraced it, and now Donald Trump is killing it.
 • Timothy Noah
Norman Podhoretz, Dogma Soldier
Also: How labor unions scored a victory last week in the House.
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A Quick Cohen Building Update
The art of the non-denial denial.
 • Timothy Noah
Trump's Petty Tyranny Over Sans Serif Fonts
But, you protest, he doesn't even read! Thank God he'll never have to.
 • Timothy Noah
OK, Now Trump Is Preparing to Bulldoze the Cohen Building Before He Sells the Land
That would be against the law. Time for preservationists to sue?
 • Timothy Noah
Dorothy Thompson on Donald Trump, Steven Miller, Marco Rubio, and J.D. Vance
The trailblazing journalist (1893-1961) and prototype for the Katharine Hepburn character in the comedy "Woman of the Year" was also, it turns out, a…
 • Timothy Noah
Tom Stoppard, RIP
Here's a few things to watch.
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SOS
A quick review of where we stand on December 3, 2025.
 • Timothy Noah
Kleptocracy and Sovereign Wealth Funds
I was a little slow to catch on why Trump was so fond of them, but I'm beginning to understand.
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