The Great American State Fair kicked off on Wednesday night, June 24 with a speech by President Donald Trump on the National Mall in Washington, DC. The Trump administration is touting the Fair, which continues through July 10, as a celebration of the United States’ 250th anniversary. But Trump’s cr…

Alt hed: Trump ally swears Senate GOP will start ‘behaving like the Senate’ after Trump’s latest tantrum Axios co-founders Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei have named the GOP’s refusal to stand up to President Donald Trump a “crisis.” Writing on Friday, the two asserted that years of blind “obedience” to…

When swing voters and independents who favored Donald Trump in 2024 were asked why they decided to vote for him, many of them expressed a desire for greater stability in their lives. They wanted lower prices and border security. But Trump’s second presidency, critics argue, is even more chaotic than…

The real way to read the immigration decisions the Supreme Court issued yesterday is not to see them solely as losses for immigrants to the United States or the rights of immigrants. They are much larger losses. They are losses for the authority of Congress to have its laws fully executed by a presi…

Retired Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling, a former U.S. Army Europe commander, is warning that President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth — by forcing seasoned military figures out of leadership roles — are promoting instability in the U.S. Armed Forces. But Hertling isn’t the only veteran who …

Clarence Thomas went more than 10 years without asking a single substantive question from the bench. His silence between 2006 and 2016 prompted commentators to call his courtroom quietude embarrassing, a sign of fatigue and a lack of intellectual candlepower. Even earlier in his career, he had earne…

President Donald Trump is failing at his presidency because he is ensconced in a bubble of “flattery,” according to a pair of authors who wrote a bestselling book about his administration.“He is living, to some extent — to a large extent — in a hermetically-sealed bubble,” The New York Times’ Jonath…

President Donald Trump and his supporters have a habit of claiming he was chosen by God. Yet one book that took this argument to a literal conclusion is receiving angry reviews — because, as it turns out, the evangelical-raised author intended it as a joke.Titled “Scriptual Evidence That Trump Is Se…

President Donald Trump’s supporters actively oppose democracy, according to a recent ethnographic study, and actively want to make things worse for people they dislike.“As a wise man once said: They are who we thought they were,” wrote The Bulwark’s Jonathan V. Last on Thursday about a May study spo…

President Donald Trump’s Wednesday night speech to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary was garbage, according to a former U.S. Naval War College professor.“I mean, it was trashy,” Tom Nichols, retired professor from the U.S. Naval War College, told The Bulwark’ podcaster Tim Miller on Thursday. …