A companion to Danielle Pletka & Marc Thiessen's weekly podcast, analysis, highlights, and the occasional rant.
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New York Mayor Mamdani at Masjid al Taqwa (details here)
The ideology of Salafism, originalist or fundamentalist Islam, is largely unknown to the average westerner. Without diving into a exegesis on the writings of Abdullah Azzam (who exto...
# WTH Is Happening With Midterms?
Thought you could squeeze in one more peaceful weekend before the world came back and smacked you in the gob? Wrong!
Yesterday, Marc and I released a podcast episode previewing the political hurricane about to hit the United States: the m...
#WTH National socialism, anti-capitalism, Jew hatred, & other tired ideas
Good morning, all. I hope everyone is enjoying a lazy August. At the bottom of this piece are some recent works, including Marc’s and my summer podcast book series. If you’re like me and always looking for the next read, I think you’ll love...
Hot takes happy hour with Elise and Dany
In addition to agreeing to disagree agreeably, we agree wholeheartedly about the growing problem of principle-free personas in politics and journalism. Outraged to be dumped for their lack of professionalism and partisanship, too many journ...
#WTH Washington's unprincipled principals
Every now and again, I go back and read my old articles. Sometimes its to admire my prescience or cringe at my unforced errors (“Libya may well be out of the business of sponsoring terrorism” right before the downing of Pan Am 103 was a hig...
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Danielle Pletka is a distinguished senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and the host, with Marc Thiessen, of the podcast What the Hell is Going On. You can find them on Substack @WhattheHellisGoingOn
Global affairs journalist. I write Cosmopolitics on Substack.
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