U.S. President Donald Trump lauded the “very good relationship” he has developed with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, at the NATO summit in Turkey on July 8, 2026.In a meeting of the pair that lacked the acrimony of earlier encounters, Trump added that Ukraine has “such great people,…
I’m no political consultant, but I don’t think I would make “fraud” the theme of the Trump administration’s midterm election campaign push.At least not while the reflecting pool disaster remains in the news, the White House is doubling down on sticking with its no-bid contract for the company that o…
President Donald Trump frequently claims that his tariffs are saving America’s economy, but a recent opinion piece from The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board just gave him a big reality check.The Journal opened by mentioning that Toyota recently announced plans to invest $3.6 billion in a second a…
President Donald Trump’s political movement has been widely compared to a cult — and now billboards in Tennessee are offering adherents a way out.“Having Doubts? You Are Not Alone,” proclaims the advertisement for the website “Leaving MAGA” along Nashville’s Interstate 40, according to a report by T…
President Donald Trump has consistently received staunch support from farmers, who remain among his most loyal constituents to this day. Yet they have taken economic hit after economic hit from his policies of mass deportations, unprecedented tariffs and a war against Iran that has raised prices on …
No sooner did news break last week that a New Orleans grand jury had indicted Attorney General Liz Murrill, Gov. Jeff Landry got on social media and promised to pardon her.But now Baton Rouge, La. newspaper The Advocate says Landry may have loused up his own promise with his hard-on-crime anti-pardo…
MAGA is getting more and more weird, says the Bulwark crew of Tim Miller, Sam Stein and Will Sommer. But MAGA’s talent for blaming others for their personal depravities remains unchanged.MAGA social media influencer Gian Rachtelli, 54, was charged with lewd, indecent and obscene acts on the National…
The “partisan split” of Americans showed up in a big way at Fourth of July celebrations and backyard barbecues last week, but the media, while noting or even complaining about it, rarely mentions exactly why it’s happening.A few weeks ago, Louise and I were having coffee with an old friend who’s kno…
In the winter of 1986 while living in West Germany I visited East Berlin with my oldest daughter, who was still a teenager, and on the far side of Checkpoint Charlie we were picked up by a young man named Torsten who ran a gypsy cab. Before we’d gone more than a block he had the two of us rehearsing…
One of the recent dust-ups at the NATO summit this week centered around NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte Wednesday when a Dutch reporter asked how he maintains any self-respect while placating President Donald Trump. Foreign policy writer Elizabeth Saunders spoke with The New Republic’s Greg Sargen…