The Trump-Mamdani show was amazing. But downsides for Progressives could turn out to be...
Trump and Mamdani found each other newly useful last Friday. Only later will we know who was more effectively using whom.
Soldiers must disobey unlawful orders under Trump, lawmakers warn amid escalating threats
Lawmakers warn troops that refusing unlawful commands is their duty as Trump escalates threats and expands unauthorized military actions.
Ozymandias on the Potomac
When Donald Trump’s term in office is done, this country moves quickly to recover its capacity for economic rationality, it should be able to regain some version of its place in the world economy.
Venezuela isn’t the global threat, Trump and Rubio are
Will the U.S. government push forward with regime change in Venezuela?
Israel has killed two children a day during Gaza ceasefire, UN reports
UNICEF and humanitarian agencies say ceasefire conditions have collapsed as Israeli strikes continue in Gaza and Lebanon.
Public opposition surges as Trump weighs military action in Venezuela
New polling shows widespread rejection of war while legal experts, lawmakers, and regional leaders warn the administration’s escalating campaign lacks explanation and violates core constraints
Lawmakers call for probe of how firm tied to Kristi Noem got piece of...
The demands for an investigation come after a ProPublica story revealed that the Noem-connected Strategy Group was secretly a subcontractor on the ad campaign.
Warfare over healthcare: It’s necropolitics all the way down
This is not just an abstract dilemma that many households are facing; it is necropolitics in action, the state-sanctioned power to decide who lives and dies.
2025 elections could be the beginning of the end of MAGA—if Dems seize the...
The MAGA movement should be very worried about its political survival.
If Democrats stick to the blueprint the 2025...
Priceless teaching moments from the last five presidencies, especially today’s craziest, most corrosive
Character matters because that’s the best future predictor; career success matters because past is prologue; competence matters because gross negligence is catastrophic.