For POLITICO Magazine, I wrote about Pastor Doug Wilson, whose vision of a conservative Christian theocracy is finding a receptive audience in Trump's Washington.

The MAGA-backed plan to make Penn Station beautiful again ow.ly/MvBn50WaOee

Inside the MAGA plan to rebuild Penn Station, by Ian Ward politico.com/news/magazine/…

The bill looks like a triumph of GOP sclerosis + dysfunction over attempts to remake its agenda along coherent populist (Vance) or dynamist (Musk) lines, which is why the VP is implausibly casting its details as so much "minutiae" and Musk is screaming from the sidelines.

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“Instead of neatly dividing Trump world into two opposing and mutually antagonistic camps, the debate has fractured the right into a kaleidoscopic mélange of competing factions,” Ian Ward writes on the Epstein case and MAGA: politico.com/news/magazine/…

Some context on Wilson and Christ Church, which opened a plant in DC this weekend: politico.com/news/magazine/…

I’ve compared Ross Perot and Elon Musk, but I’m a little skeptical Musk will be able to copy Perot’s “successes”. Me for politico: politico.com/news/magazine/…

I wrote about "heritage America," a concept that captures so many of the intellectual currents swirling around MAGA right now:

This is one of my favorite subplots because in the real world Mayflower descendants vote like D+80

Politico: The online right is obsessed with Daniel Boone Me: Did someone say Daniel Boone!?

If you want to go deeper than a CNN segment on the pastor the secretary of Defense is praising, read Ian Ward' excellent profile of Doug Wilson from earlier this year politico.com/news/magazine/…