Trump’s ‘on-again, off-again’ presidency
The President is taking America for a bumpy ride
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Thursday
Wednesday
Will a new era of tariffs really stop China’s rise?
If this is a new Cold War, it’s one that’s very different from the contest with the Soviet Union
The 👊🇺🇸🔥 presidency
What will happen if the Trump administration stumbles into a war it wasn’t planning on?
My DC bunker
For more than 200 years the purpose of Washington has been to reward clout with office
Can the Democrats rediscover themselves in the age of Trump?
They are less powerful and less popular than at any point in recent history
The Democrats have a voter problem
Higher turnout wouldn’t have saved the party in 2024
The Democratic war machine
What’s significant for the American left today is not what keeps communism going, but what gets it started
Play Putin at his own game by ‘nightmaring’ his world order
Moscow yearns to carve up the world. But it will be a world where everybody’s knives come out
Will Trump take a punt on Puntland?
The President thinks the lawless Somalian pirate state would be perfect for the Palestinians
How DEI destroyed itself
Trump has redirected the mighty regulatory powers of the civil-rights system against his political adversaries
The life of Karoline Leavitt
In contrast to her predecessors, the Press Secretary refuses to carry a binder of notes
‘Signalgate’ is another nothingburger
A crazed press are constantly looking for another Watergate
The war on Tesla
Elon Musk is driving the left crazy
Why is America so unhappy?
The causes of our discontent are complicated, but they’re rooted in our drift from traditional values
The Court of the Sun King
The MAGA set share the predilections and tax brackets of the people they criticize
Tuesday
Europe is its own worst enemy
The continent is still not listening to America
The Everything, Everywhere All at Once presidency
The administration now has the Supreme Court’s backing
Who really makes up the ‘Resistance?’
It was as though NPR had manifested itself in human form
Monday
Elon wants Trump to understand how a pencil gets made
Musk’s voice will become harder to ignore
Trump loves chaos. What happens when he loses control?
A strategy that started out last week as defensive has morphed into something that fluctuates between open-mindedness, doubling down and indifference