America Is Now Counting on You, Pete Hegseth
My advice for the incoming secretary of defense
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Evangelicals Made a Bad Trade
Hitching the evangelical wagon to Donald Trump has meant unhitching it from the life and teachings of Jesus.
Who Will Stop the Militias Now?
By granting blanket clemency to the January 6 insurrectionists, the president has unleashed violent, and loyal, paramilitaries.
There Is No Resistance
The response to the January 6 pardons shows that the president faces no effective constraints from within his party.
January 6ers Got Out of Prison—And Came to My Neighborhood
The strange new reality after Trump’s pardons
Trump’s First Shot in His War on the ‘Deep State’
The president is punishing a group of former officials for expressing an opinion he didn’t like.
The Animal Story That RFK Jr. Should Know
A vaccine history lesson for the would-be health secretary
Emperor Trump’s New Map
The president who built his fan base on isolationism is pivoting to a kind of imperialism that the U.S. hasn’t seen in decades.
Capitulation Is Contagious
When fear spreads in a society, powerful people who know better are often the first to show their weakness.
Trump’s Second Term Might Have Already Peaked
As far as policy accomplishments are concerned, it could very well turn out to be as underwhelming as the first.