On What Really Matters, Walter Russell Mead discusses how artificial intelligence is splitting the MAGA coalition, Xi Jinping’s phone call with President Donald Trump, why young conservative women are having more children than their liberal peers, and the White House’s Ukraine peace plan.
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Black smoke rises from the area of Gazprom Neft’s Moscow oil refinery on the southeastern outskirts of Moscow on June 18, 2026. (Getty Images)