The Fifth Column

•Don Does Davos•I Would Do Anything for Greenland (But I Won’t Do That)•Even MAGA Thought the Norway Text Was Fake News•The Danes’ Historical Resistance to Fascism•A Lament for the Belgian Congo•Cutting a Greenland Cake, and the Epidemic of Stupidity•Who the Fuck Is “We”?•Congress Could Do Something That Isn’t Impeachment•Shame Doesn’t Work•Past the Point of Passivity•Punching a Transtifa Baby•Macron and Those Beautiful Sunglasses•Carney Invokes Václav Havel: Rupture, Not Transition•Middle Powers, Beta Powers•Soleimani in Iceland•China Is Asshole•The Man Is Fucking Old and Loves His Prizes•Breaking: Strange Victory, Strange Defeat•Letter Bag: Minneapolis•Get Out of the Fucking Churches•The Abbott & Costello Theory of Government
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Chuck Klosterman’s new book, Football is out now! (See also The Nineties, and Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs)
-The music-doc cinematic universe, featuring Billy Joel and Japanese Jimmy Page
-Moynihan missed the Morrissey cover-band boat
-How to actually say Klosterman
-From pop culture to America’s most popular TV show
-It had to be football: the one exception …

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Two hundred and fifty years ago this very day, a gallant-strolling cat named George Washington convened in Cambridge about as high a level Patriot meeting as you could muster: John Adams, two major generals, five brigadier generals, and arguably the most connected man among the Boston rebels, Joseph Warren. There, the commander in chief persuaded his Wa…

-Good Movies We’ve Never Seen
-Raw Dog Minerals
-Moynihan Responds to a Cunty Troll
-The Reckoning We Didn’t Have
-Renee Good, a Week Removed
-These People Have No Constitutional Knowledge
-The MST3K of ICE Videos
-The Sanctuary City Devaluation
-Iranian Violence Spectacle and thoroughly verifying the dead
-Weaponized DOJ: Now Featuring Powell and a Reporter Raid
-The Walter Cronkite of This Generation
-Low-Bar Journalism
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-Who Remembers the Armenians? (The Fresno ones)
-The One Good Decision Gavin Newsom has made
-Who Remembers Amy Cooper? (The Central Park one)
-When Facts Become Partisan Coded
-Journalism vs. Activism
-Matt Welch Is Buffy St. Marie
-Broken LA Dreams
-The Actual Way to Pronounce Cenk Uygur
-ICE’s Shock and Awe Theater is no longer an act
-The Pendulum on Immigra…