Editor's Picks: 

• Rich: Noah’s piece about court packing called, “The Democratic Center Is Now as Radical as Its Left” 
• Charlie: Sarah Schutte’s most recent magazine piece, “Best Western: A Road Trip from Ohio to the Pacific” 
• Noah: Jeff Blehar’s piece, “Everyone is Edging Away from Ken Paxton” 
• Jim: Charles Hilu’s piece, “Vivek Ramaswamy Doesn’t Pretend to Be a Populist” 

Light Items: 

• Rich: Got print newspaper nostalgia.
• Charlie: Visited New York and cheered on the Yankees. 
• Noah: His kids' intense sporting season starts soon (wish him luck!).
• Jim: Went rowing on a lake. 

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Editor's Picks: 

• Rich: John Puri’s piece, “Data Centers Use Little Water, So Where Does It All Go?”
• Charlie: Ross Douthat’s Farewell column, “Reflecting on 20 Years as NR’s Film Critic”
• Dan: The Editors’ most recent about the Iran War, “Is Trump Prepared to Dig In on Economic War Against Iran?”
• MBD: Charlie’s piece, “Spare America from the ‘Noblesse Oblige’ of This DSA Duchess”

Light Items: 

• Rich: Attended a Marlins game in South Florida
• Charlie: Rewatching the show, Foyle’s War
• Dan: Listening to a Star Trek podcast
• MBD: Kids are getting into the sport, hurling

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Editor's Picks: 

• Rich: John Puri’s piece, "Beef Tariffs Are Still Doing What They're Supposed to Do" 
• Charlie: Rich’s most recent column, “What If Factories Had Gotten the Data-Center Treatment?”
• Noah: Charlie’s piece, “The New York Times Helps to Launder Karen Attiah's Lie”
• Jim: Also Rich's piece

Light Items: 

• Rich: Attended the Indiana Fever vs. New York Liberty WNBA game
• Charlie: Went to the Jaguars pre-season game 
• Noah: Discovered the NeeDoh squish toys
• Jim: Dropped off his oldest kid at college this past week

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Editor's Pick:

• Rich: Same pick as Charlie!
• Charlie: Jim Geraghty’s most recent Morning Jolt, “Why Would We Rename the USS Doris Miller Aircraft Carrier?”
• Phil: Caroline Downey’s piece, “No, Not all Women Identify With Lindsay Clancy”
• Noah: Andrew McCarthy’s piece in the latest issue of the magazine, “Mamdani’s Intifada”

Light Items: 

• Rich, Charlie, Phil, and Noah: Honoring Sarah Schutte on her last day as the podcast producer for all of her amazing work. Thank you for all of the time and energy you have given and will continue to give to National Review, Sarah! You will be dearly missed. 

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Lights Items: 

• Rich: Visited Florida and took the Bright Line
• Charlie: Watched the film, A Man for All Seasons
• Noah: Spent the weekend in Atlantic City with his family
• Dan: Starting to build a dollhouse

Editor's Picks: 

• Rich: Jim Geraghty's piece, "For AOC, the Time Is Now"
• Charlie: Abigail Anthony's piece, "I Still Think IVF Should Be Banned"
• Noah: Brittany Bernstein's most recent "Forgotten Fact Checks" newsletter about New York Magazine's Habibi City cover story
• Dan: Becket Adams's piece, "'Woke One' Wasn't Just Crazy -- It Was Destructive"

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Editors’ Picks:

• Noah: John Fund’s post “America Has Tried Socialism Before — and Quickly Abandoned It”
• Charlie: Dan’s magazine piece “America’s Asylum System Is Broken”
• Phil: Andy’s post “On a Possible Mangione Federal Guilty Plea”
• Luther: Andrew’s post “Telling the Truth About Ceuta”

Light Items:

• Noah: Atlantic City
• Charlie: Speaking at University of Florida
• Phil: Swimming in Israel
• Luther: Geometry

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Editors’ Picks:

• Charlie: Joseph Epstein’s magazine piece “The Lofty, Lonely Life of W. H. Auden”
• Jim: Andrew Stuttaford’s magazine piece “Ukraine Shows Its Resilience”
• Dan: Kamden Mulder’s pieces
• Luther: Gary Winslett's piece “How to Fail at Public Order”

Light Items:

• Charlie: The Guns of Navarone
• Jim: O Museum in The Mansion
• Dan: The National Women's History Museum
• Luther: A fire pit

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Editors’ Picks:

• Rich: Josh Trevino’s post, "America is more than an idea" 
• Andrew: Mike Gonzalez’s piece about the Smithsonian and how "America’s museum culture needs an overhaul" 
• Luther: Noah Rothman’s piece, "Hasan Piker is a symptom, not the cause"
• Charlie: John Puri’s post, "Why is food more expensive?"

Light Items:

• Rich: In the midst of reading the first volume of The Golden Thread: A History of the Western World
• Andrew: Also reading a book called Notes on a Colonial Situation in Hell
• Luther: Refurbished a sailboat
• Charlie: Watched the movie Gettysburg for the first time on a flight back from California

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Editors’ Picks:

• Rich: Josh Treviño's piece on "why World War II still matters"
• Noah: John Fund's piece, "Where bipartisan reform is actually working"
• Jim: Charlie's post, "Okay, but what do you want to actually do"
• Dan: The entirety of the "common good" debate in The Corner

Light Items:

• Rich: New Spider-Man movie, A Brand New Day
• Noah: Power outages
• Jim: Finger Lakes vacation
• Dan: Also the new Spider-Man movie

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Editors’ Picks:

• Rich: Dan’s post "Why JD Vance Generates So Much Heat"
• MBD: Rich’s piece “The Iran War Is Eating Trump’s Presidency”
• Noah: Christian Schneider's piece “Let People Ink for Themselves”
• Andrew: Michael Strain's post "Adults Are Responsible for How They Use AI"

Light Items:

• Rich: Extra-inning baseball
• MBD: Vacation
• Noah: Nashville
• Andrew: Monarch butterflies

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