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 point. (Or the truth.) So to assure his future well-being, he is working...
After announcing he will close the Kennedy Center for two years in his capacity as chairman of its board, President Trump must have assumed he’d owned the liberals who once frequented events there. No more opera for you, wokerati!...
Current protests in Iran are reminiscent of the uprising in 1979 that forced the exodus of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and put the mullahs in charge. I was a reporter for Newsweek at the time, covering the White House....
Trump loves making deals. Trump loves shiny things and status symbols and spectacle. So does his buddy, FIFA president Giovanni Infantino. Having supported the president’s failed bid for a Nobel peace prize, Infantino today presented Trump with the inaugural...
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s surprise resignation from Congress is exposing the deep fissures and roiling discontent in the GOP’s ranks. Two days after becoming eligible for a lifetime pension, and amid continued feuding with her former idol and the broader...
Everyone is trying to figure out what prompted the Democrats to surrender and end the government shutdown, giving Trump a big win just days after their biggest victory in years. They had the Republicans on the run—why would they...
Is it a case of mixed messages sent by voters? Democrats need to pitch progressive policies and challenge capitalism to reach younger voters, as New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is doing. And they must project a seriousness of...
Where we go next in Trump’s acquisition of power is best summed up by one of the first rules of real estate: You don’t modernize a rental. Does anybody really think Trump is building a humungous ballroom for J.D....
Like all things Trumpian, it’s about as subtle as a wrecking ball: A lavish ballroom, bigger than a football field, with aspirations of Versailles and shades of Caesars Palace. Visitors to the Oval Office in recent months have been...
Democrats say they had no choice. After eight months of getting flattened by Trump on policy and programs at home and abroad with no sound counter message, they couldn’t just roll over again. (Well, maybe they could have. But...