Pete Hegseth’s résumé maps the trajectory of a man who failed upward from Fox News host to Donald Trump’s Secretary of Defense. As Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court hearings proved, sexual assault allegations are rarely a roadblock to a powerful job in the Trump administration. In fact, Donald
Iranians have a national myth that their culture is so powerful that it civilizes its conquerors. This will not happen to the United States. (Note: "Persia" is the name given to the region and peoples of Iran by those who do not live there but they have always
Betting markets treat the flow of world events as random, but there are people making real decisions and there's nothing stopping them from profiting from those decisions This weekend, an unnamed person with the user name "Magamyman" began placing bets that the US and Israel would
How deep does the media’s complicity go? In this episode of Cancel Me, Daddy, Katelyn Burns and Christine Grimaldi unpack the disturbing connection between the "Shitty Media Men" list, the MeToo movement, and the recently released Epstein files. While the world focuses on the spectacle, we dig
But that won't stop Democrats from trying for it anyway In the midst of the 1992 presidential election, future president Bill Clinton visited Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition conference and delivered a now famous repudiation of Sister Souljah, an MC, writer, and political activist who had made
It is Cancel Me, Daddy’s fifth anniversary! This week, former co-host Oliver joins Katelyn and Christine to discuss all the panic around cancel culture. Oliver and Katelyn pinpoint how they defined cancellation when the podcast started in 2021 and what has and hasn’t changed about it over the
The Epstein files don't reveal wrongdoing from the doctor, but his relationship with the world's most notorious pedophile is concerning Editor's note: I want to be clear that I am not accusing Dr. Jess Ting of Mt. Sinai Hospital in Manhattan of any malfeasance
A radical conservative case currently before SCOTUS portends a terrifying political police state ready-made to deport political enemies I haven't slept well in weeks, I'm sure I'm not alone in this. The images of ICE violence coming out of Minnesota are not only heartbreaking
You can’t log onto social media or otherwise tune into the news without witnessing extremely disturbing images of masked federal agents assaulting and arresting people in Minneapolis. We’re talking bystanders, legal observers, passerbys, immigrants, citizens—everyone in ICE’s wake. This week, Katelyn and Christine welcome New York
The Republican project to destroy Democracy and the world order started long before Trump came on the scene As President Trump hit Davos this week to saber rattle Europe over Greenland and ICE continues its military occupation of Minnesota, it appears that the United States as we know it is
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"Three guys from Boston mispronounce half the town names in Massachusetts" Apologies for the lack of newsletters this week, it's been a very busy week over here in Burns Notice HQ. But now that my Xtra column and the latest Cancel Me, Daddy episode is out,