Distrustful of a Republican foreign policy establishment that undermined him in his first term, Trump sourced a cohort of second-term staff from previously marginalized Libertarians and anti-interventionists. The problem? They don’t agree with him on policy.
Rising up from his political grave, the ex-president cements a U.S. partnership with Iran in Lebanon while Israel meekly gives up its gains
The former president lost big on Nov. 5. But he doesn’t seem interested in leaving D.C., or American politics.
No matter who wins or loses, we can look forward to four more years of Chicago on the Potomac
Republican activists say they have to water down the reality of their opponents’ agenda in focus groups. ‘They just don’t believe it’s true. It can’t be.‘
Why Tucker Carlson became America’s conspiracist-in-chief
The Tablet news desk files daily dispatches from the convention
My sister’s relationship with Barack Obama was a harbinger of an America in which race would no longer be a determining characteristic. Kamala Harris and her supporters now say that’s impossible.
The Obama-Biden blueprint after Gaza
How Barack Obama ended normalcy in American politics
You cannot understand what’s going on with American politics today without it
It wasn’t Donald Trump, or Joe Biden
Working-class Americans say they’re voting for their interests. NPR apostles say they suffer from ‘white rage’ and ‘precarious manhood.’ Who’s right?
The former president’s atomized, placeless definition of who we are is a recipe for national disintegration
The Palestinians have something better than a state. They have the backing of today’s worldwide power brokers.
Don’t let them force you to choose between being an American and being a Jew
A startling string of policy failures shows the hollowness of the U.S. foreign policy establishment and its servile wunderkind, Jake Sullivan
It was the first in a series of hugely consequential lies that will shape our country as much as the Middle East
