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Alex ShephardNew Republic |
One side effect, it seems, of threatening to destroy an entire civilization is that subsequent, less apocalyptic attempts at intimidation fall a...
If you were, for some reason, to only get your news about the war in Iran from the president’s Truth Social feed, you might be under the impression...
Take a random moment from Trump’s second term—his inauguration, a state visit to the Middle East, a meeting of the preposterous “Board of...
Has anyone in the history of the world failed in more geographically disparate places in as short a time as JD Vance? Over the course of less than a...
Who’s the biggest nut job in MAGA? That question pretty much sums up the civil war that has broken out between Donald Trump and a growing number of...
There were two ways to read Donald Trump’s unprecedented threat on Tuesday that Iran’s “whole civilization will die” if the Strait of Hormuz...
For 41 days, Senate Republicans refused to entertain any bill to reopen the Department of Homeland Security that did not include funding for...
In the final year of President George W. Bush’s second term, his administration asked Congress for $190 billion to continue funding the wars in Iraq...
A week ago, President Trump effectively declared victory in the Iran war. “We’ve won. Let me tell you, we’ve won,” he said during a speech in...
If you want to understand how Donald Trump is managing the Iran war, a glimpse at the president’s recent public statements tells you all you need to...
As the Iran war drags on and the death and devastation grow, I keep returning to a three-minute clip from a Republican presidential debate in February...
For half a century, FIFA’s leaders have dished out bribes and raked them in as they’ve cozied up—and handed the World Cup—to despots and...
“Donald J. Trump saved the world from real chaos,” Senator Lindsey Graham told Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo on Sunday. “Thank God Trump did this.”
On Monday, two days after the United States and Israel launched their war on Iran, Megyn Kelly began her SiriusXM show by saying she was praying for...
Now what?
The United States, you may have heard, is the “hottest” country in the world. It’s a phrase that President Trump often deploys to sell his...
Janet Mills, the 78-year-old moderate who has served as Maine’s governor since 2019, is staid and a little boring—which is exactly why, last fall,...