J.D. Vance makes nice with Munich
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Is it possible Trump – and by extension, Vance – are truly taking a harder line on Russia?
Jacob Heilbrunn
Jacob Heilbrunn is editor of The National Interest. He lives in Washington DC
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Trump rules out a third term
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In 2028, would there be an appetite for him to serve one?
Friday
Is Marco Rubio the next Henry Kissinger?
Tammy Bruce, the State Department spokesperson, was flummoxed. ‘I just heard this from you,’ she responded after a reporter told her at a briefing session that President Trump has appointed Marco Rubio to replace Mike Waltz as his acting National Security Advisor. But this isn’t his final Waltz. Waltz is now headed to the United
Wednesday
Why Trump won't fire Pete Hegseth – yet
On Monday, the liberal outlet National Public Radio reported that Donald Trump’s administration was looking for a replacement for Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth. This report may in fact have helped shield Hegseth from being sacked for having arranged a second Signal chat group about impending war plans for Yemen that apparently included his wife, Jennifer,
Thursday
How much hope did Trump offer Meloni?
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‘There will be a trade deal, 100 percent’
Wednesday
Trump's tariffs are coming back to bite him
Liberation Day? Pshaw. President Trump may be gloating about imposing sweeping tariffs on America’s allies and adversaries abroad, but he is beginning to face blowback at home for his strange farrago of policies that are upending the federal government and threatening to plunge America into a self-induced recession. First Senator Cory Booker raised the flagging
Thursday
Trump’s choice on a replacement UN ambassador is complex
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The President decided to yank Elise Stefanik’s nomination because of the slender Republican majority in the House
Monday
The ‘government by groupchat’ scandal should cost Mike Waltz his job
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The National Security Advisor accidentally added the editor of the Atlantic to a message thread in which Houthi air strikes were planned
Wednesday
Has Putin played Trump?
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Russia and Ukraine have launched air attacks on each other, hours after Vladimir Putin told Trump that Russia would stop targeting Ukrainian energy sites. Has Putin outplayed Trump? And will Trump regret bringing Europe’s militaries back to life? Deputy and US editor Freddy Gray is joined by Americano regular and author Jacob Heilbrunn to discuss.
Cosying up to Putin has weakened Trump's hand in Europe
Once upon a time, America practiced ping-pong diplomacy to try and improve ties with Mao’s China. Now Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are talking about organising hockey matches in America and Russia to bolster relations. Given that the two sides would be playing in ice rinks, it would be hard to say that Russia, which
Sunday
Trump has elevated the Houthis as an opponent
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The cold, hard truth is that air strikes have seldom proven lethal enough to decapitate rebel movements and regimes in the Middle East
Tuesday
Trump and Elon’s White House Tesla auto show
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The President suddenly likes Tesla, just as it goes out of fashion.
Friday
All along Trump’s aim has been to dispose of Zelensky
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The truth is that the president choreographed his break-up with Ukraine quite well
Thursday
Trump plays the joker with Starmer
Donald Trump was in a jocular mood as he met with Keir Starmer, barely allowing the Prime Minister to get in a word in edgeways during their joint appearance in the Oval Office. ‘Did I say that? I can’t believe I said that,’ he mused after a reporter queried whether he continued to regard Volodymyr
Sunday
The AfD will be a thorn in Merz's side
Alice Weidel, the leader of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, didn’t mince her words. Speaking immediately after the German federal election on national television in Berlin on what’s known as ‘the leaders round’, she claimed that the mainstream conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) merely won a ‘pyrrhic victory’. Its head, Friedrich Merz, had no real
Wednesday
Tulsi caps off a big day for ‘realism and restraint’ in foreign affairs
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The former Democratic congresswoman suffered an acute case of what’s known in Washington as ‘confirmation conversion’
Tuesday
Trump’s inner real-estate developer targets Gaza
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Who knew that America’s Manifest Destiny stretched all the way to the Levant?
Friday
A pleasant respite from the tumult in Cambridge
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It’s far from clear that Great Britain, or Europe, for that matter, can provide a sanctuary from Trump
Monday
How radical will Donald Trump be?
If Donald Trump, as Scott Jennings observed on CNN, is at the ‘apex of his political power,’ then what comes next? In his inaugural address, Trump vowed that ‘American decline’ had ended and a ‘golden age of America’ was about to begin. He essentially embraced what amounted to a form of liberation theology. ‘Liberation Day,’
The quarrelling coalition behind Donald Trump
Like Ronald Reagan in 1985, Donald Trump is bowing to the elements and moving his inauguration indoors to the Capitol Rotunda, where only 500 guests can squeeze in to attend the ceremony. But that development isn’t putting a damper on the spirits of the tens of thousands of Trump followers who have traveled to Washington.