Jacob Weisberg's Blog, page 121

My Wife Is Spending $500 on a Cake for Our Kindergartener. This Is Madness, Right?

What’s wrong with Chuck E. Cheese?

My Son Took Part in a Cruel Prank on a Frog. My Wife Is Acting Like It’s the End of the World.

It's practically a rite of passage.

John Roberts’ Anti-Trans Opinion Isn’t Just Cruel. It’s Incomprehensible.

There is so much wrong here, it's hard to know where to start.

SCOTUS Just Declared Open Season on Trans Rights

The Roberts Court rubber-stamps bans on gender-affirming care for trans kids

The Supreme Court Upheld Health Care Bans for Trans Youth. Amy Coney Barrett Wanted to Go Further.

Three conservative justices have signaled they don’t believe the Constitution protects transgender people from discrimination.

A Wild New Show Is Like Pride and Prejudice During the Great Depression … but With Hitler Coming to the Wedding.

In the 1920s and ’30s, a notorious set of siblings held England in thrall. But did one of them really announce her Nazism in the newspaper?

I Might Have a Chance to Marry Rich. There’s One Catch—And It’s Sickening.

More money, more problems—no, thanks.

A Disturbing Sign We’ve Accepted a “New Normal” From Trump

Of all the things this Trump term, the rapid normalization of masked law enforcement disturbs me the most.

The Big Bets on AI

We’re at peak AI hype.

Trump’s Reversals Are Making Us Wonder Who Is in Charge Here

The United States government is basically the guy from Memento (2001, dir. Christopher Nolan).