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In March, I reported on a tour conducted by the General Services Administration, the executive branch’s real estate arm, of the remarkable New Deal...
Senator Lindsey Graham died Saturday evening from a sudden tear in his aorta. He was 71, making his death an untimely one. But we can regret...
The Atlantic is a magazine about the imminent loss of all that we hold dear. That’s a business model likely pitched to older readers, whose keener...
On Wednesday, I discussed how the White House Domestic Policy Council’s Saving America’s Story report makes a number of false claims about...
You can sort of tell the White House’s Domestic Policy Council knew it had a dud when it released its condemnation of the National Museum of...
Being president of the United States is by far the most lucrative business venture of Donald Trump’s checkered business career. The June 30 release...
This week’s Supreme Court ruling giving President Donald Trump a free hand in firing government regulators is less about Trump than it is about...
In 2013, McDonald’s generated some ghastly publicity when it came out that the fast-food giant was advising burger flippers to go on food stamps....
For nine months I’ve been making a stink about the Trump administration’s imminent sale of the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, which houses the...
Less than one month after President Donald Trump’s second inauguration I ventured the prediction that Trump’s anti-regulation strategy, which was...
The United States has a storied history of medical charlatanism. In the 1890s, a Pennsylvania newspaper reporter turned publisher turned patent...
For years, the conservative partisan playbook to win working-class votes was to ignore economic inequality and demagogue the culture war. The...
You know already that President Donald Trump is on a rampage to build hideous oversized structures in Washington, D.C. (the Epstein Ballroom, the Arc...
In Oscar Wilde’s 1895 comedy The Importance of Being Earnest, the epigram-spouting Lady Bracknell is told by Jack Worthing, her daughter’s suitor,...
A famous figure who lives a very long life risks outliving his fame. That was the case for Robert Coles, the celebrated child psychiatrist and social...
Even Crystal S. Carey, Republican general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, or NLRB, the federal agency that adjudicates labor-management...
Bill Pulte for director of national intelligence? Really?
A great riddle of the 2024 election is how Donald Trump managed to double (to 14 points) his advantage among working class voters, defined as those...
Through some combination of malignant narcissism, incipient dementia, and raging dyscalculia, President Donald Trump struggles to distinguish his 80th...
“The dignity of work” is a somewhat old-fashioned phrase that’s seldom uttered these days. The left tends to view it with suspicion because it...
Donald Trump calls climate change a “hoax,” a “scam,” and a “con job.” He has (twice) withdrawn the United States from the Paris Climate...
Let’s don’t waste any time debating the legality of President Donald Trump’s IRS “settlement” (click here to read part one and here to read...
Of all President Donald Trump’s kleptocracy schemes, perhaps the most shameless are his financial legal claims against the same executive branch...
California’s Republican Party is so weak that no Republican has won statewide office there in 20 years. Yet there’s some danger this fall that the...
It has come to this. Every year a completely inoffensive nonprofit called the Partnership for Public Service hosts a ceremony to hand out awards to...
Even if you hate President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign—which has placed about 60,000 undocumented immigrants in Immigration and...
Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post and, with his wife, Lauren Sanchez, he’s an honorary co-chair of Monday evening’s Met Gala. The Post cost...
These are hard times for multinationalism. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization lies in tatters, the World Trade Organization is on life support,...
Twenty-second-century historians tracing the ascent of American technocracy from quirky garage tinkerers grooving on the Whole Earth Catalog to...
In September 2024, the Teamsters, whose strutting fool of a president, Sean O’Brien, had been gifted the month before with a prime time slot at the...
Last month, I considered whether Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used what he knew about the imminence of the Iran war to expand his stock portfolio...
In March, The Wall Street Journal’s Meghan Bobrowsky broke the news that Mark Zuckerberg was “building a CEO agent to help him do his job.” The...
“There’s seemingly this mentality building,” Carolyn Schenck, a former national fraud counsel for the Internal Revenue Service, tells The Wall...
Forty-six years ago I told an editor of The New Republic that I’d like my first article for this publication to be about the United Nations...
“Ye have the poor always with you,” says Jesus in Matthew 26:11, a statement that’s often said to express fatalism about the problem of poverty....
If the United States economy is headed off a cliff, better that we receive no warning in advance. That may not be the stated goal of the Trump...
The Iran war is shaping up to be history’s first global conflict fought inside the stock market.At 7:27 a.m. Monday, before the New York Stock...
The Dow and Nasdaq indexes both closed Friday in correction territory—a market dip of 10 percent from the last peak—and the S&P 500 wasn’t far...
The spendthrift ways of President Donald Trump are not confined to asking Congress for more than $200 billion to keep fighting a war in Iran that he...
Many of us who remember the 1970s energy crisis are experiencing right now a strong sense of déjà vu. I acquired my California driver’s license in...
There are 27 elementary and high schools named after Cesar Chavez in California, nine in Texas, and three each in Arizona and New Mexico. The New York...
Bill Clinton was the last Democratic presidential candidate to win the white working class (conventionally defined as “white non-college voters,”...
The likelihood is growing that the economy will be in recession when voters cast their ballots in the midterm elections. Goldman, Sachs on Thursday...
A popular Washington game is to oversell tax cuts to lower-income people. Republicans have excelled at this for half a century. Now Democrats want to...
With “affordability” the Democrats’ watchword of the moment, I’m surprised more haven’t pointed out that President Donald Trump’s...
The Supreme Court’s tariff decision creates two revenue problems for President Donald Trump. The more obvious one has commanded most of the...
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