“In his work with the White House, is Mohammed bin Salman driving out extremism, or merely seizing power for himself?” Dexter Filkins examines that question in The New Yorker: A Saudi Prince’s Quest to Remake the Middle East.

+ “This much, at least, can be said for Mohammed bin Salman, the putatively reformist crown prince of Saudi Arabia: He has made all the right enemies.” Jeffrey Goldberg’s interview with MBS in The Atlantic made news on at least two fronts. First, the prince recognized “the right of the Jewish people to have a nation-state of their own next to a Palestinian state.” And second, he said Iran’s supreme leader “makes Hitler look good.”

+ The MBS tour of America is currently in LA where he and his entourage are staying at the Four Seasons. Like, the whole Four Seasons.