Donald Trump Rails on Biden During Wedding Speech at Mar-a-Lago  —  DONALD TRUMP MAR-A-LAGO WEDDING SPEECH ... Enough About The Couple, Let's Talk About Me … It's been over 4 months since the November election, and Donald Trump is still acting like a sore loser — that, or a belligerent wedding guest.

Amazon started a Twitter war because Jeff Bezos was pissed  —  Snarky tweets targeting Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren came after the CEO told execs they weren't pushing back hard enough on critics.  —  SHARE All sharing options  —  Amazon has long been at odds …

Inside America's Most Interesting Magazine, and Media's Oddest Workplace  —  The publication of the “Harper's letter” attracted huge attention.  Most people had stopped reading the magazine, which is stranger and better than you might expect.  —  Last August, when the pandemic seemed endless …

Insurrection fundraiser: Capitol riot extremists, Trump supporters raise money for lawyer bills online  —  Brenna Smith Jessica Guynn Will CarlessUSA TODAY  —  Defendants accused in the Capitol riot Jan. 6 crowdfund their legal fees online, using popular payment processors and an expanding network …

French philosopher Michel Foucault ‘abused boys in Tunisia’  —  The philosopher Michel Foucault, a beacon of today's “woke” ideology, has become the latest prominent French figure to face a retrospective reckoning for sexually abusing children.  —  A fellow intellectual, Guy Sorman …

Lin Wood to run for South Carolina GOP chair  —  Lin Wood, the defamation and personal injury lawyer who took up former President Trump's baseless accusations of election fraud, will run to lead the South Carolina Republican Party less than a month after moving to the Palmetto State from his home base in Georgia.

The Unlikely Team of Prosecutors Hunting Trump in Georgia … The public integrity unit at the Fulton County District Attorney's office once had a miserable reputation.  Now, a new crew there is investigating the biggest target of them all.  —  A sheriff's deputy who went to law school but remained a cop for another two decades.

Remote Work Is Here to Stay.  Manhattan May Never Be the Same.  —  New York City, long buoyed by the flow of commuters into its towering office buildings, faces a cataclysmic challenge, even when the pandemic ends.  —  Spotify's headquarters in the United States fills 16 floors of 4 World Trade Center …

The Biden do-over: Democrats get a chance to try again on Obama defeats  —  Barack Obama, facing pressure from both parties, worked to keep his stimulus package under $1 trillion.  Joe Biden launched his presidency by spending about $2 trillion and hopes to bump it up to $5 trillion.

Scoop: Kids' border surge expected to last 7+ months  —  The Biden administration projects the number of unaccompanied children crossing the border could spiral from more than 16,000 this month to as many as 26,000 in September, according to documents leaked to Axios.

University of Oxford considers scrapping sheet music for being ‘too colonial’ after staff raise concerns about music curriculums' ‘complicity in white supremacy’ after Black Lives Matter movement  — Professors set to reform music courses to move away from the classic repertoire

POLITICO Playbook: Chuck Schumer's 51-vote gambit  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  BREAKING OVERNIGHT — EVER GONE? ...  “Aided by Moon and Tide, Giant Ship Is Partially Refloated,” NYT  —  SPOTTED: MIKE and KAREN PENCE car shopping at Ourisman Honda in Tysons Corner.

Redistricting disarray nudges House Democrats toward statewide bids  —  Many of the House's most vulnerable Democrats won't know for several months if their seats will be winnable next year.  And for some, a once-daunting statewide run just got a lot more appealing.

The AP steps up to help flailing Biden admin, tells staffers not to use the word “crisis” when writing about the border crisis  —  ABC News/IPSOS Poll: Majority view border crisis a ‘crisis’ … As the Biden administration lies about the border crisis and tries to bully Republican lawmakers …

Even the GOP's three best arguments against D.C. statehood don't stand up to scrutiny  —  Opponents of D.C. statehood have at most three arguments that deserve any respect.  They involve the Founders' intent, retrocession to Maryland and the 23rd Amendment.  —  But none stands up to scrutiny, as I'll discuss below.

Cases in Florida, a national Covid bellwether, are rising — especially among younger people.  —  Scientists view Florida — the state furthest along in lifting restrictions, reopening society and welcoming tourists — as a bellwether for the nation.  —  If recent trends there are any indication …

The Week in Fascism  —  On Claremont and Tucker  —  I was recently teased by a friend that my Substack was “all about Nazis,” which I don't think is entirely fair, but I have to admit is some truth to it.  I'm sorry, but they keep coming up!  —  I would like very much to move past the …

Transgender Girls in Sports: G.O.P. Pushes New Front in Culture War  —  Lawmakers in a growing number of Republican-led states are advancing and passing bills to bar transgender athletes in girls' sports, a culture clash that seems to have come out of nowhere.

Do You Think You Can Tell How a Neighborhood Voted Just by Looking Around?  —  _ … Most readers who have played so far are pretty good at this game, at least in certain kinds of places.  The precincts that voted overwhelmingly for Donald J. Trump or just as heavily for Joe Biden …

AP sources: SolarWinds hack got emails of top DHS officials  —  Suspected Russian hackers gained access to email accounts belonging to the Trump administration's head of the Department of Homeland Security and members of the department's cybersecurity staff whose jobs included hunting threats …

Biden to unveil major new spending plans as Democrats eye bigger role for government  —  The president is set to unveil key components of infrastructure reform, and the early contours of his 2022 budget  —  President Biden this week is set to begin sketching out his plan to commit trillions …

What happened in Wuhan?  Why questions still linger on the origin of the coronavirus  —  A lack of transparency from Chinese officials and looming geopolitical consequences have damaged the credibility of a WHO-led inquiry into how the virus that causes COVID-19 originated.  Lesley Stahl reports.