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April 8, 2026
Only Losers Play the Madman
Does Trump seem crazy? Sure. Credible, not so much.
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April 8, 2026
What It Means to Be American
Fareed Zakaria and David Frum on whether they regret becoming American citizens. Plus: how 18 years of economic turmoil ushered in a new populist era, and a discussion of Invisible Cities by Italo ...
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April 7, 2026
Trump Looks Frantic
So much bluster signifying nothing
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April 1, 2026
Watching War From the Strait of Hormuz
Graeme Wood on what he saw at the Strait of Hormuz and the lockdown of oil in the Persian Gulf. Plus: Trump’s war-information blackout and Thomas Paine’s Common Sense at 250 years old.
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April 1, 2026
Why Trump Didn’t Predict the Gas-Price Spike
The president doesn’t understand that markets are global.
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March 25, 2026
The Far-Right Algorithm: Anti-Churchill, Anti-West
The historian Andrew Roberts on why many right-wing podcasters now believe that the wrong side won the Second World War, and the rise of algorithmically driven pseudo-historians. Plus: Trump is loo...
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March 25, 2026
Trump Owes Mueller
The president may resent the former special counsel, but he is also indebted to him.
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March 18, 2026
Why Britain Is Saying No to Trump’s Iran War
Alastair Campbell on the end of the U.S.-U.K. “special relationship.” Plus: Why Democrats in Congress cannot ignore their duty, and The Director, by Daniel Kehlmann.
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March 16, 2026
Can’t Stop It, So Lead It
To limit the harms of the Iran war, congressional Democrats will have to join the fight.
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March 13, 2026
Anti-Semitism Is Becoming Mainstream
The Michigan attack shows that anti-Jewish terror is spreading.
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March 11, 2026
Can Democrats Actually Win in Texas?
Beto O’Rourke on the Texas Democratic Senate primary and what it means for a key race in the 2026 midterms. Plus: chaos at DHS and Samuel Fleischacker on Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations.
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March 4, 2026
Trump’s War With Iran and a New Danger at Home
Tom Nichols on Donald Trump’s war with Iran, forgotten lessons from the Iraq War, and fears about the intentions of America’s leaders. Plus: Why Trump’s wartime powers could be extremely dangerous ...
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March 3, 2026
This Joke Explains Iran Today
Sometimes the most reliable weapon is a grim joke.
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March 2, 2026
On the Chagos Islands, Trump Is Right
The president is rightfully concerned about the fate of America’s most important military base in the Indian Ocean.
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February 28, 2026
The Paradox of Trump’s Iran Attack
When his fantasies unravel, Trump has a habit of abusing power to force his will upon an uncooperative world.
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February 25, 2026
When Caring Becomes Counterculture
Tim Miller on what he saw in Minnesota, why “Resist libs” turn off younger generations, and whether Never Trump has veered too far to the left. Plus: reacting to Trump’s tariff defeat and rethinkin...
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February 25, 2026
Trump’s Childish State of the Union
The president misused the State of the Union ritual in ways so radical as to call the ritual itself into question.
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February 21, 2026
The Crisis in Polling Is a Problem for Democracy
Gallup’s presidential-approval poll is the latest casualty in a divided, suspicious nation.
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February 20, 2026
The Supreme Court Delivers Trump a Humiliating Gift
Finally, a check on the president’s tariff powers.
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February 18, 2026
The End of Reagan-Era Republicanism
Mona Charen on how Trump transformed the conservative movement and what the right got wrong. Plus: Signs of life from America’s guardrails and John Maynard Keynes’s “My Early Beliefs.”
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February 11, 2026
How Trump Could Break the 2026 Elections
Stephen Richer on President Trump’s 2020 election denial, standing up to threats, and the Fulton County raid. Plus: Trump’s racist Obama meme and The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Em...
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February 4, 2026
Trump vs. Canada
Former Alberta Premier Jason Kenney on annexation threats, the unraveling of U.S.-Canada relations, and how Trump is forcing allies to rethink democracy, defense, and immigration. Plus: the Trump f...
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January 28, 2026
What the Neocons Got Right
David Brooks on moral collapse, the limits of politics, and what the neocons got right about America. Plus: Another ICE shooting in Minneapolis and Netflix’s Death by Lightning.
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January 21, 2026
Why Trump Sides With Putin
Fiona Hill on Putin’s long game, Trump’s transactional foreign policy, and the danger of mistaking size and bluster for real power. Plus: Trump’s grocery-price fiction and V. S. Naipaul’s Among the...
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January 14, 2026
Trump Has Redefined Presidential Scandal
The historian Timothy Naftali on Donald Trump’s presidential library, comparing the many scandals of the Trump presidency to those of Richard Nixon’s, and Trump’s foreign policy of American weaknes...
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January 12, 2026
Vance Knows What ICE Means to MAGA
The movement is not about laws and their enforcement. It’s about respect and who deserves it.
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