Kanye West has already fulfilled at least one current job requirement for being president of the United States — producing tweets that provoke confusion and controversy among the American public. But West still hasn’t cracked one essential measure of support: An endorsement from a member of Congress.

I'm grateful for James Freeman’s kind words about my recent essay in the Guardian warning about Deep State leaks, and relieved that he thinks I am “not nearly as far to the left as most Guardian editors.” We agree that there is a serious danger in the Deep State leaks of classified intelligence intercepts that contains U.S. person information and that were clearly designed to sabotage the Trump presidency. And we agree that in many ways those abuses were greater than the political leaks (and threats of leaks) during the Hoover era.

Conventional wisdom suggested that the well-connected Rep. Luke Messer was the favorite to win the three-way Republican primary in Indiana’s Senate race, coming up May 8. A strong campaign from relative outsider Mike Braun, a businessman and former state lawmaker, has contradicted that narrative. And then there’s Rep. Todd Rokita: the only one of the trio to have bankable statewide name recognition as a former Indiana secretary of state, and the most Trump-like candidate running.

Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, senior writer Michael Warren and deputy online editor Jim Swift join host Charlie Sykes to discuss whether or not Dr. Ronny Jackson, President Trump's pick to lead the VA stands a shot at getting confirmed by the Senate, Mick Mulvaney's views on lobbyist meetings, the Arizona special election results, whether the GOP can topple West Virginia's Joe Manchin with the candidates they have, Bernie Sanders's make-work jobs program, and lastly, what are "incels?"

David Frum is a senior editor at the Atlantic and a contributing editor to THE WEEKLY STANDARD. Frum is a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush and the author of nine books, the most recent of which is Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic. This week we exchanged emails, discussing his new book, the presidency, and contemporary politics.

Alfie Evans, the toddler from Liverpool whose parents want to take him to Italy for further treatment, isn’t dead yet. The English courts have all but deemed him dead, but he still breathes.