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There are no new stories of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth becoming so drunk that he has to be carried out of social events, as when he led the...
In the 1960s, President Lyndon Johnson had three large TV sets bolted into the walls of the Oval Office, one tuned to each network—there were only...
I have two daughters living in the United Kingdom. Both of them are United States citizens, and they love this country. But they are certainly not...
Mom, the white supremacists are fighting again! This week’s MAGA temper tantrum began with the abrupt resignation of Joe Kent—a former Green...
Trump’s Iran war is a fiasco. Undertaken without adequate planning by a president deaf to the advice of experts, there is no meaningful measure by...
President Trump says the war in Iran was won in the first hour, but we haven’t won enough, and we don’t want to leave early as the country’s...
President Donald Trump has finally realized that he launched a political grenade at his own party when he declared war on Iran—and that he has no...
Spring breakers are facing travel carnage as airports across the country descended into chaos Thursday amid security delays due to the ongoing...
President Donald Trump seemed deranged enough when he responded online to Venezuela’s 3-2 victory over the United States in the World Baseball...
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An already-tense White House was plunged further into chaos during an emergency meeting Friday morning, reports an anonymous source who overheard the...
As he rhapsodizes in his Iran war briefings about maximum violent death and destruction “without mercy,” Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth could...
We’re starting to see a few miserly mea culpas emerging from the loose-knit collection of podcast influencers who went to bat for Trump in 2024: Joe...
The problem isn’t the $124,000 Pete Hegseth’s Department of Defense spent on ice cream machines last September. Or the $15.1 million they spent on...
Donald Trump is being drawn into the kind of proxy war with Russia that his predecessors have been trying to avoid since the Bay of Pigs. Vladimir...
Trump seems to believe the presidency comes with C-Suite access for the planet as a whole: he can interview foreign leaders for job openings, dissolve...
As the face of the new “Shield of the Americas” franchise, Kristi “ICE Barbie” Noem joins beloved figures like Mighty Lil’ Marco, The...
When Donald Trump was asked by Time magazine if he was worried the war could come to America’s backyard, he replied, “I guess.” Like the San...
It was January 2013, and the Lincoln Dinner was just a few months away. Oakland County, Michigan has one of the largest and oldest Lincoln...
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For more insight and commentary from Michael Wolff, subscribe to HOWL on Substack and gain access to exclusive daily content. We’re in the middle of...
Like many, one of my first thoughts on learning that the U.S. and Israel had gone to war with Iran was how that would affect Russia and China. They...
Bro, this Iran attack is based. So epic. Such fury. Secretary of Half-Completed Pull-Ups, Pete Hegseth, freaking killed it as his press conference...
Colin Powell spent the final years of his life haunted by his February 2003 presentation to the United Nations Security Council, claiming the threat...
Who knows how, but Donald Trump has gotten out of every tight spot he’s fallen into. From the bone spurs that saved him from the draft to the bail...
Hillary Clinton lost. Joe Biden won. Kamala Harris lost. Over the past decade, and despite the boundaries broken by Barack Obama’s presidency, as...
Maybe, in his Princeton days, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth read the ancient historian Thucydides’ famous contention that might makes right. But,...
President Donald Trump took us to war against Iran by claiming that he was protecting us from weapons that do not exist. The shameful war turned...
Inside Trump’s Grand Plans for His War With Iran: Wolff A recurring theme in the second Trump administration has been to address resentments Trump...
The Department of Labor is the federal agency charged with enforcing workplace standards and setting the example for ethical conduct across...
If you’ve turned on cable news at any point since between about 2 am Saturday morning and this second, you’ll have been confronted with...
What better dodge is there for draft-dodger Donald Trump than to get elected as the “peace president,” promise an end to forever foreign wars,...
Even for a man with such a tenuous hold on the truth, Donald Trump may come to regret his justification for going to war with Iran. More than anything...
I remember sitting in a hospital room following the birth of my younger daughter watching reports of the early days of the first Gulf War. The U.S....
“Candace Owens is an evil, twisted human being.” —Ben Shapiro, February 24, 2026. (The same Candace Owens he hired for his publication, The...
If you’ve noticed Hillary Clinton everywhere again, it’s not because she has launched a comeback tour. It’s because Republicans still just...
Good for SCOTUS on pushing back against Trump on tariffs, but do they really deserve much credit? And why did it take so long? The justices took just...
If you took every true thing President Donald Trump said during Tuesday’s State of the Union address and tattooed it onto the genitalia of a flea,...
With his perma-tan and showman’s smirk, Donald Trump tried every trick in the book to win over the country. Come on in. Come on down. You get a...
The enduring mystery about Jeffrey Epstein isn’t simply how he operated, it’s why so many powerful men wanted to be near him. Strip away the legal...
Perhaps the only positive to emerge from the launch of President Trump’s farcical “Board of Peace” will be a modeling contract for Paraguay’s...
Donald Trump on Friday attacked the Supreme Court majority that ruled against him in a landmark decision on tariffs with a venom and ferocity he has...
Earlier this week, Texas Senate hopeful James Talarico had his interview on Stephen Colbert’s late-night talk show on CBS yanked due to concerns it...
Spoiler alert: No one has the slightest idea who the Democratic candidate for president will be in 2028. Including me. But that doesn’t mean it’s...
No, Barack Obama did not just reveal the existence of E.T. As The Daily Beast’s (self-appointed) UFO beat reporter, I took special notice when the...
The last time a member of the British royal family was arrested, it ended badly, with an axe, a scaffold, and a monarchy temporarily abolished. That...
After an ICE agent shot a DoorDash deliverista in Minneapolis on Jan. 14, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem quickly offered a...
I never thought of myself as someone who runs away from my problems. I always thought of myself as someone who flies away from them. That’s why, the...
Why It Matters That Melania Trump Doesn’t Live With Her Husband: Wolff The Trumps’ latest legal threats against me have been produced by the...
In Donald Trump’s telling, he has to win every election for his own ego. It’s good for America too, he’d argue, but that’s not really the...