Why would past readers re-subscribe when their best journos left? "Democracy Dies In Darkness" for business reasons.

Neo/conservatives tend to like the decisive action in US-led military operations.
Kagan foresaw what Trump's election meant in 2016 when I still held too high an opinion of American urban conservatives. I respect that perspicacity, that I didn't have.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/thi...

Even Jane Mayer calls him a Cassandra. I thought that might be overstating it.

The obit in the @nytimes.com by the great Robert McFadden is lovely. Forrest Wilder calls him “a man ahead of his time by 50 years, a Southerner who spoke up for gay rights and addressed nuclear annihilation long before those ideas were commonly discussed in Texas.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/b...

And his address didn't receive universal acclaim at the time. Not at all. "Reaction to Lincoln’s address was frequently divided along political lines. Newspapers critical of the President had snide things to say about the speech...."
rmc.library.cornell.edu/gettysburg/i...

"Why don't you just say yes?"
Like Fox News does. I don't even have to lean on them to lie for me.

John McCain in 2017: "It's time Congress returns to regular order." McConnell walked, so Trump could run. gift link wapo.st/4lYTnwi