Susan B. Glasser

If this is “total and complete victory,” imagine what failure looks like.

The President poses an existential question: Can everything be going according to the plan with Iran if there is no plan?

And the war in Iran is helping him do it.

“We won,” the President who’s treating the conflict with Iran like a video game says, but “we’re not finished yet.”

So far, explanations are few and the goals—from regime change to ending a nuclear program the President already claimed to have “obliterated”—are many.

But at least the President thinks everything is going great.

Donald Trump’s attempt to criminalize political expression is crossing a line that’s held since 1798.

The question is not if he will undermine confidence in the midterms but how.

After a wave of public revulsion over the President’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota, he offers a familiar playbook: distraction, disinformation, denial, delay.

How many polite ways are there to ask whether the President of the United States is losing it?

The President may have started out by trash-talking America; one year into his second term, he is simply trashing it.