President Trump welcomed the British monarch King Charles III to the White House yesterday and gave a speech that, on its surface, expressed warmth between the two countries. But its true purpose was darker. Trump's speech stamped his imprimatur on an ascendant view of American history and politics'one that is controversial even on the American right, and that walks up to the edge of white nationalism. The analysis Trump endorsed is that America is defined not by its founding values but by its Anglo-Saxon cultural and genetic heritage. This idea has radical consequences, some of which have already manifested under the administration. Trump's sentiment was unmistakable. 'Long before Americans had a nation or a constitution, we first had a culture, a character, and a creed,' he said, proceeding to depict the Founders not as rebels against the English crown but instead its loyal heirs: 'Their veins ran with Anglo-Saxon courage. Their hearts beat with an English faith in standing firm for what is right, good, and true.'...

Mike Vichich grew up in Michigan. His family, he recalls, dedicated their lives to public service. His parents were teachers, his uncle was in the FBI, while both sets of grandparents served in the Army. 'Growing up, public service was always a really admirable way to spend one's life and one's career,' he told TechCrunch. 'I have three young kids. I want them to grow up in a country where government can actually get stuff done.' He went on to work in consulting, then launched a consumer company that he sold to Olo for $200 million back in 2021. After his wife gave birth to their third son, he and Brandon Max, a founding engineer at his last startup, began discussing what they wanted to do in this next chapter of their careers. Each idea they had came back to one thing: that selling to the government was really hard. 'We were like, maybe there's something to that.' In 2023, they launched Pursuit, a site that helps companies find and win government contracts. On Wednesday, it announced a $22 million Series A round led by Mike Rosengarten, a general partner at Builders VC and co-founder of OpenGov. The company has raised $25.5 million in funding to date from investors such as Jack Altman (then at Alt Capital), Bill Gurley, and Sam Hinkie at 87 Capital....

The Devil Wears Prada took place amid the glorious roar of capitalism. The hit 2006 comedy took place in a world where magazines were still triumphant, with Runway, a fictional, Vogue-esque publication the film was centered on, sitting firmly atop the heap. The only concern was whether Andy Sachs, a plucky aspiring journalist played by Anne Hathaway, could survive working as the assistant to Runway's imperious editor in chief, Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), without totally losing her sense of self. But in The Devil Wears Prada 2, Hollywood's latest nostalgia-baiting follow-up film, the crisis is no longer personal'it's existential. Ahead of watching the sequel, I worried about what I thought would be a lazy parade of fan service; I feared that the movie would lob catchphrases and cameos at the audience like dead fish to a herd of clapping seals. (This often seems to be Hollywood's view of its customer base too.) At first, the story is a bit of a retread: 20 years later, Runway still exists, and Miranda still rules it with a relatively iron fist. But the magazine's budgets are no longer limitless, the September issue is not quite as thick with glossy ads, and dreaded words such as content and traffic are bandied about during meetings that used to be focused on which passed appetizers would be served at an upcoming gala. The sequel thus finds a good reason to exist: It has plenty of breezy fun probing the dilemmas of modern media, without abandoning the glitz that made the original so enduring....

When an assassin murdered Charlie Kirk in September 2025, the MAGA movement seized the moment to demand a campaign of repression. Vice President Vance called for an ambitious program to 'go after the NGO network that foments, facilitates, and engages in violence.' He named the Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundations, and The Nation magazine as examples of candidates for the retaliation he had in mind. The people who faced consequences after the killing almost universally did so for things they had written or said, not for acts of violence. In November, Reuters counted some 600 cases of people who were fired, suspended, or otherwise disciplined for their speech about Kirk's life and death. Now another gunman has attacked political targets. At the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, a man discharged a firearm in the vicinity of hundreds of people from the worlds of politics, media, and business'among them, the president and vice president of the United States. Although much about the event remains unclear, the available evidence suggests that the gunman was motivated by an anti-Trump agenda. Yet this time, MAGA's immediate response to political violence has been much less aggressive. At his press conference after yesterday's attempted shooting, President Trump cited the attack as proof of the need for his wished-for White House ballroom. Social-media accounts that take their cues from the White House promptly echoed the message....