Why Meta Is Paying $25 Million to Settle a Trump Lawsuit
Facebook’s parent company has reached a deal with the president, and Elon Musk’s platform says it’s negotiating its own settlement.
Gulag Humor Is Now Everywhere in D.C.
You’re so vain, you probably think this retribution is about you.
‘It’s an Illegal Executive Order. And It’s Stealing.’
Trump wants to go around Congress and freeze enormous amounts of federal spending. Can he?
The Strategy Behind Trump’s Policy Blitz
The flood of executive orders and news was designed to disorient the Democratic resistance. It might be working.
Trump Can’t Escape the Laws of Political Gravity
Sooner or later, nature will catch up to the president.
Europe’s Elon Musk Problem
He and other tech oligarchs are making it impossible to conduct free and fair elections anywhere.
Greenland’s Prime Minister Wants the Nightmare to End
Watching Trump from the future 51st state
The January 6er Who Left Trumpism
Not every Capitol rioter was a card-carrying seditionist; some have regrets, and a few are even refusing a pardon. Jason Riddle is one.
America Is Now Counting on You, Pete Hegseth
My advice for the incoming secretary of defense
Evangelicals Made a Bad Trade
Hitching the evangelical wagon to Donald Trump has meant unhitching it from the life and teachings of Jesus.
Who Will Stop the Militias Now?
By granting blanket clemency to the January 6 insurrectionists, the president has unleashed violent, and loyal, paramilitaries.
There Is No Resistance
The response to the January 6 pardons shows that the president faces no effective constraints from within his party.
January 6ers Got Out of Prison—And Came to My Neighborhood
The strange new reality after Trump’s pardons
Trump’s First Shot in His War on the ‘Deep State’
The president is punishing a group of former officials for expressing an opinion he didn’t like.
The Animal Story That RFK Jr. Should Know
A vaccine history lesson for the would-be health secretary
Emperor Trump’s New Map
The president who built his fan base on isolationism is pivoting to a kind of imperialism that the U.S. hasn’t seen in decades.
Capitulation Is Contagious
When fear spreads in a society, powerful people who know better are often the first to show their weakness.
Trump’s Second Term Might Have Already Peaked
As far as policy accomplishments are concerned, it could very well turn out to be as underwhelming as the first.
What Everyone Gets Wrong About Tulsi Gabbard
Other than raw ambition, only one through line is perceptible in a switchbacking political career.
The Trump Faithful Return to D.C.
This past weekend, a pro-Trump throng arrived in Washington not in protest, but in triumph.