The Trump World Order
In the MAGA vision of the national interest, might will make right.
Intimidating Americans Will Not Work
Trump is punishing Americans who don’t say the words he likes best. That’s not how it works in America.
DOGE’s Reign of Ineptitude
Slashing and burning won’t help with efficiency.
Incompetence Leavened With Malignity
The Trump administration’s Ukraine policy is liable to end in disaster.
New York Belongs to Trump Now
New Yorkers want their mayor held accountable.
Why People Feel Nostalgic for Terrible Times
Some people miss the early, eerie first few months of the pandemic, when time seemed to have stopped.
Who Is Running the United States, Musk or Trump?
In an interview with Sean Hannity, three men demonstrated that they have no idea how American democracy works.
The New Globalism
How MAGA is reimagining foreign policy
January 6 Still Happened
The Trump administration can pardon the insurrectionists and delete pages of evidence. But it cannot hide what took place on that day.
How COVID Pushed a Generation of Young People to the Right
Research suggests that pandemics are more likely to reduce rather than build trust in scientific and political authorities.
How the Woke Right Replaced the Woke Left
The hypocrisy of Trump’s language wars
The Death of Government Expertise
Why Trump and Musk are on a firing spree
A Proven Way to Ease L.A.’s Housing Crisis
States around the country are showing Southern California how to rebuild.
How Progressives Broke the Government
Democrats’ cultural aversion to power has cleaved an opening for Trump.
Government Workers Cannot Be Fired for Their Political Views
The First Amendment forbids widespread loyalty purges.
The ‘Gulf of America’ Is the Wrong Fight to Pick
The more that politicians mess around with place names, the more important it is to respond according to consistent principles.
A Blatant Violation of Legal Ethics
DOJ lawyers pride themselves on working for an organization that is unique among federal agencies in its independence from politics—for now.
Growing Up Murdoch
James Murdoch on mind games, sibling rivalry, and the war for the family media empire
The Opposition Is Already Growing
Trump is getting substantial pushback, both from the courts and from other pockets of civic life.
How to Prevent Trump From Defying the Courts
Other countries have demonstrated three possible paths—not all of which lead to good endings.