Alison McQueen (Stanford): Political Realism and Moral Corruption. The globe’s hottest year just keeps getting hotter. David Roberts on the conceptual breakthrough behind the Paris climate treaty. Mark Thoma on the economic hurdles for beating global warming. Philip Bump on why this National Review global temperature graph is so misleading. Sulome Anderson on the people making Captagon, the drug ISIS fighters take to feel “invincible”. Hamilton Nolan on why terrorism is a sideshow. Fox News contributor Bo Dietl champions profiling people with certain facial hair as anti-terrorism measure. What the hell happened to Mickey Kaus? Ben Smith on how a godfather of Democratic political blogging became obsessed with immigration — and came around to Donald Trump. David Robson on the countries that don’t exist: There really is a secret world of hidden independent nations, with their own populations, governments and football leagues — in fact, you’ve almost certainly visited one without realising.
From National Review, Conrad Black on why Donald Trump is the good guy. Who, if anybody, is advising Donald Trump? The GOP frontrunner’s statements appear to be drafted on the fly. Ron Kampeas on 3 ways Sheldon Adelson could handle Donald Trump. Mark Thomas on how Donald Trump’s divisiveness is bad for the economy. Jeff Guo on what Donald Trump and dying white people have in common. From “white power” to Nazi salutes: How toxic can Trump rallies get? How Donald Trump mainstreamed Ted Cruz. Tim Alberta goes inside the secret meeting where conservative leaders pledged allegiance to Ted Cruz. We have an epic confrontation between two master who have trained for decades in the arts of assholery and bullying — but their powers equally matched, it is a stand off. Will elites blow up the GOP? Patrick Buchanan wonders.
