Did Joe Biden’s presidency really happen?
The 46th presidency only ended eight weeks ago and already Biden is a ghost
Donald trrump
Thursday
Wednesday
Trump is working overtime to restore the rule of law
In the long term, his masculine policies will function less as a punitive expedient
How politics tainted the delayed homecoming of stranded astronauts
The blame game is overshadowing what should be a national celebration
Donald Trump, Putin and the Concert of Arabia
The subject of Iran appears to have been just as important as Ukraine
Tuesday
Trump personnel office rejects longtime Republican aides for admin roles
Plus: AP deletes incorrect Tulsi story and Texas tries to ban furries from schools
Monday
Recession? What recession?
No one knows how President Trump’s efforts to use American tariffs to force our trading partners to lower theirs will turn out
Why air strikes on the Houthis will fail
All other attempts to stop the Houthis haven’t worked. Why should Trump’s be any different?
Sunday
Trump has elevated the Houthis as an opponent
The cold, hard truth is that air strikes have seldom proven lethal enough to decapitate rebel movements and regimes in the Middle East
Saturday
Will Trump’s spending bill luck run out?
It’s to Trump’s benefit that the shutdown was avoided, but it can be chalked up as a win for the Democrats, too
Can Chuck Schumer hang on?
The Senate Minority Leader’s decision to prevent a government shutdown has earned him a telling off
Trump’s foreign policy isn’t unprincipled
The President is driven by a deep fear of communist China
Trump’s war on Europe should not surprise anyone
There’s not a new sheriff in town, but an old one with scores to settle
Friday
Why Greenland’s election might not have been so bad for Trump
‘The night’s big loser was the status quo,’ says Tom Dans
Why I am confident the Champagne tariff will not last long
My glass of Pol Roger, expensive though it is now, will not be getting more expensive any time soon
Will Putin give peace a chance?
He still demands huge chunks of Ukraine and other dramatic concessions
Thursday
Why abolishing DEI is only a partial revolution
There is a chink in Trump’s strategy
The federal-state collisions looming over New York
Liberals offended by Trump’s war on DEI should learn from my YMCA pick-up basketball game on West 14th Street
What’s in a rename?
Changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico is the act of a puny country, not a great one
‘I had two jobs: to run the country and to survive’: an interview with President Trump
POTUS on his second term, Nixon, Ukraine — and the tush push
Cut the bureaucracy — and the chainsaw
When slashing the government means firing a disaster coordinator in Alaska, you start to wonder if MAGA has its priorities in order