“If you’re going to run in ‘28, I think there’s a fully internet-native way to run these campaigns that might literally involve zero television advertising, and maybe you don’t even need to raise that money, and maybe … if you have the right message you just go straight direct,” Andreessen told his host.

The transformation might not be quite as total as he’s claiming — in fact, Vice President Kamala Harris overperformed in states where she invested the most in TV and in-person campaigns, so there’s life in old-fashioned politics yet.

But Andreessen isn’t wrong that there are real shifts underway. As the dust settles from the slightly off-the-mark debate in the immediate aftermath of the election about whether liberals need their “own Joe Rogan,” it remains clear that if your media consumption is limited to or dominated by traditional sources like newspapers, television or even “mainstream” newsletters (like this one!), your sense of the mood of the electorate will be inevitably limited, and even inaccurate.

President-elect Donald Trump is making good on his tariff promises, saying Monday he plans to impose them on Mexico, Canada and China in an effort to stop the flow of drugs entering the country and illegal border crossings.

“This Tariff will remain in effect until such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country! Both Mexico and Canada have the absolute right and power to easily solve this long simmering problem. We hereby demand that they use this power, and until such time that they do, it is time for them to pay a very big price.” Trump posted.

“But tariffs are two things if you look at it,” Trump said in October in an interview with Bloomberg News editor-in-chief John Micklethwait. “No. 1 is for protection of the companies that we have here, and the new companies that will move in because we’re going to have thousands of companies coming into this country.”

Here are four ways Trump says tariffs will help with the U.S., along with what experts say.
1. Protect U.S. manufacturing
2. Bring new companies to the U.S.
3. Deliver billions in new federal revenue
4. Stem the flow of drugs and illegal immigration

New tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China could make life more expensive.

Shoppers would see higher prices throughout the produce department, since Mexico and Canada supply 32% of the fresh fruit and 34% of the fresh vegetables sold in the U.S.

“One of President-elect Trump’s signature pledges during the campaign was to tamp down inflation and to reduce prices at the grocery store,” says Lance Jungmeyer, president of the Fresh Produce Association of the Americas, an importers trade group.

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What RFK Jr. really means for America’s health

Keren Landman: Really, his contact with health, at least his professional contact with health, is that he has helped lead an organization called the Children’s Health Defense. But he’s a lawyer by training — an environmental health lawyer, and he spent a lot of his career litigating cases around pollutants causing health effects in people.

I think he feels that gives him a lot of legitimacy, and I think a lot of people feel it gives him a lot of legitimacy, to talk about various things in the environment or medicines and link those with various health effects. But he really over-simplifies a lot of the things that science aims to understand better, and he really distrusts people who actually trust science.

Liberty has an ephemeral quality because in the American tradition it is a gift from providence, not something made by man that is given to men.

Liberty is practiced in America as faith through its preservation and expansion. It exists in a state of growth or retraction. MLK talked about this during dark and hopeless days when he said the moral arc of the universe, though long, bends towards justice.

It has bent towards freedom in America in indisputable and myriad ways, but there have been many long, dark nights when liberty has been met with deep hostility by many people in our land. Those people have not prevailed in our past. Of course, this is not to say they weren’t simply the preface for their progeny’s ultimate success. Liberty is not genetic. It is not an entitlement. It is an assertion and declaration. Always.