Megan McArdle joins Jamie Weinstein to react to the first few months of Donald Trump’s presidency and to explain why America needs to win the AI race.

The Agenda:
—Liberation Day: “It was shambolic”
—Trump’s shadow Cabinet
—What DOGE got right (and wrong)
—Elon Musk: A “managerial mad genius?”
—Paul Ryan vindicated again
—How to adapt to an AI world
—Calm before the AI storm

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