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Donald Trump’s tariffs were at once predictable and shocking. Predictable, in the sense that Trump had been crystal-clear about wanting...
The Trump administration’s tariffs are, by every reasonable account, an economic catastrophe in the making. So why are they happening? One...
In God and Man at Yale, the 1951 book that made William F. Buckley famous, American conservatism’s founding father argues that academic freedom is...
At around 5:15 pm on Tuesday, a man in a black hoodie stopped Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk on the street in Somerville,...
The biggest story in America is, and should remain, the Trump administration’s accidental inclusion of Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg on...
You’ve surely heard “First They Came,” German pastor Martin Niemöller’s famous poem about the road to Nazi Germany. It’s one of those texts...
Over and over again, the Trump administration has claimed to be fighting antisemitism while wielding power against its domestic enemies. Yet, at the...
The US and Canada are meant to be the best of friends, but they’re in the midst of a pretty ugly fight. It began with President Donald Trump’s...
Earlier this week, we learned that a senior State Department official called Secretary of State Marco Rubio stupid. The insult was delivered using...
Russell Vought is the brain behind Donald Trump’s executive order blitz. The now-director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) spent months...
At this point, there is little doubt that President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are engaged in a fundamentally unlawful effort to rewrite the American...
Marko Elez, a staffer at Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Oversight, operated an anonymous X account that spewed out-and-out race...
Vox reader Jo Ní Coinnigh asks: Why do American politics (especially the presidential election) affect not just the US, but the entire world? On one...
A leader who voters rejected several years ago returns to power, largely thanks to discontent with the incumbent party’s economic performance....
Late on Monday night, the Trump administration sent out a stunning memo suspending all federal grants. Chaos followed, with everything from...
Since Donald Trump’s rise to power, some liberals have developed a bad habit of seeing secret Nazi imagery everywhere on the right. Be it Laura...
When I was researching my book on anti-democratic politics, I found a striking pattern in modern incarnations of it — that these movements, almost...
Ever since Donald Trump declared he’d act like a dictator on Day 1 during his presidential campaign, there have been real concerns that he’d be...
When it comes to speeches, there are two Donald Trumps. The first is Teleprompter Trump, who reads a prepared speech and tends to be staid, sleepy,...
A ceasefire deal has been reached in Gaza. Long-running negotiations among Israelis, Palestinians, Americans, Qataris, and Egyptians yielded an...
Back in 2016, when much of the political press was casting Donald Trump as a dovish counterpart to Hillary Clinton, I wrote a story arguing that...
The biggest question in politics right now is what the second Trump administration will actually look like. The most honest answer is that nobody...
The American right has spent the past week performing an interesting tap dance: condemning the left for cheering on one alleged killer while...
In an extremely normal turn of events, a far-right magazine recently published an essay consisting entirely of edited passages from The Communist...