The 👊🇺🇸🔥 presidency
What will happen if the Trump administration stumbles into a war it wasn’t planning on?
Donald trrump
Wednesday
My DC bunker
For more than 200 years the purpose of Washington has been to reward clout with office
Where did Kamala most underperform in 2024?
Plus: a history of misguided pollsters
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
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
Why are Europeans so untroubled by their ignorance of America?
Romano Prodi charges Trump with having broken the rules of international diplomacy
Tuesday
Tariff haters don’t live in the Rust Belt
‘Free trade isn’t free’
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s foreign reporter crackdown
Plus: Stephen A. Smith or Kamala redux for 2028
The Everything, Everywhere All at Once presidency
The administration now has the Supreme Court’s backing
Monday
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
Who did Bill Ackman think he was electing?
The hedge-fund manager and his ilk allowed a state of affairs to develop that only someone like Donald Trump could rescue them from
Sunday
Trump’s ‘move fast and break things’ approach to crime could finally make DC safer
His ideas sure seem better than whatever we were doing before
Friday
Trump is playing a high-stakes game of international poker
He is right to complain about tariff disparities and to do something about them
Proxy voting for new moms makes motherhood look like weakness
Plus, during Covid, it became a convenience – not a necessity – and was abused by those who didn’t want to show up
Has King Trump lost his jester?
What happens when the king tires of someone else having the spotlight?
Thursday
Book deals for those who hid Biden’s decline
They owe America an apology
So long, Elon?
What would happen to Trump 2.0 in the absence of Musk, the world’s most potent MAGA voice?
Give Trump’s tariffs a shot
Our current policies have landed us with a $37 trillion federal debt. That is not sustainable