The Far Right and Far Left Agree on One Thing: Women Don't Count  —  Perhaps it makes sense that women — those supposedly compliant and agreeable, self-sacrificing and everything-nice creatures — were the ones to finally bring our polarized country together.

Not prosecuting Trump for Jan. 6 would fuel a ‘much graver threat,’ Liz Cheney says  —  A criminal case could be “difficult” but necessary, Cheney said on “This Week.”  —  ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl interviews Congresswoman Liz Cheney at The Reagan Library in Simi Valley, Calif. June 29, 2022.

Now more than ever, Democrats need Hillary Clinton  —  THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL  —  Earlier this year, I co-authored a piece for The Wall Street Journal that argued that a perfect storm in the Democratic Party is making a once unfathomable scenario …

Can Ukraine Win?  —  A Ukrainian soldier shows off a HIMARS multiple rocket launcher - part of the package of US military aid (Photo by Anastasia Vlasova for The Washington Post via Getty Images)  —  ‘Despise the enemy strategically, but respect him tactically’

Inside the Biden family business  —  The New York Post continues to mine the contents of Hunter Biden's infamous laptop.  Via Miranda Devine's Twitter feed we are alerted to Jon Levine's story “Hunter Biden's laptop had contacts for Google execs, US officials for China policy.”

An American's Murky Path From Russian Propagandist to Jan. 6  —  Charles Bausman, a former financial executive who runs websites that promote far-right views, recorded footage in the Capitol for a Russian television producer.  Soon after, he fled to Moscow as a “political refugee.”

Hope and despair: Kathy Gannon on 35 years in Afghanistan  —  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Afghan policeman opened fire on us with his AK-47, emptying 26 bullets into the back of the car.  Seven slammed into me, and at least as many into my colleague, Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus.

Gavin Newsom goes on the air against Ron DeSantis as political rivalry grows  —  (CNN)Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis aren't just avatars for the different futures of their parties, but also for the separate realities blue and red Americans are living in — two people of opposing viewpoints looking …

Trump-backed Michigan secretary of state nominee said abortion is ‘child sacrifice’  —  (CNN)Before becoming the Trump-backed Republican nominee for Michigan secretary of state, Kristina Karamo said that abortion is “child sacrifice” and a “satanic practice.”  —  “Abortion is really nothing new.

This July Fourth, Meet Three Americas  —  The red, the blue, and the tired.  —  I think I released my book about 18 months too early.  I was talking about dangerous American divisions well before it was cool.  In the last 10 days we've seen two stories go wildly viral …

‘The Pro-Life Generation’: Young Women Fight Against Abortion Rights  —  Many American women mourned the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe, but for others it is a moment of triumph and a matter of human rights.  — Give this article- - - Read in app

How California's legal cannabis dream became a public health nightmare  —  A ROW of luxury ‘healing’ creams is guarded by a locked glass cabinet, gilded in gold trim.  —  The packaging is stylishly minimal - clean and white with small black typeface - and beside the tubs sit decorative …

Mississippi's governor: Full speed ahead with new abortion restrictions  —  Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said Sunday his state intends to press forward with its efforts to make abortion exceedingly rare in Mississippi, even as complex questions associated with its law — and others around the nation — continued to bubble up.

The Holy Anarchy of Fun  —  In our era of high vigilance, emergency measures and vast decrees, Walter Kirn makes the case for fun.  —  Writes Unbound  · Subscribe … So, a little late as always, because I like my pop culture to ferment some before I swill it down, I saw the sequel to Top Gun.