A Politico analysis argues that Trump’s second-term foreign policy signifies a fundamental departure from his nationalist messaging, undermining his political brand and effectiveness on the worldwide stage.The piece contends that Trump, who built his political identity around nationalist principles—…
This was the plan all along.That’s my strong suspicion after reading about and reporting on Senate Bill 105, a Kansas law passed last year that appears to give Republican power brokers a get-out-of-jail free card in this year’s U.S. Senate race.As reported Wednesday by Kansas Reflector, the law’s te…
Recent news disclosures are only adding to our understanding that for the Trump administration, grinding away at basic democratic values is a feature, not a bug.Any thinking that Donald Trump’s mass deportation strategy, for example, was such a high priority that he would suborn Constitutional right…
The Trump White House is attacking one of its loyal media figures after she berated Vice President JD Vance over President Donald Trump’s Iran deal.“The problem is, that it’s an absolutely disastrous deal that has brought us to our knees, weeks before our 250th birthday,” NewsNation host Batya Ungar…
“… ‘facts are stubborn things,’ as John Adams said. And the central fact of our time is that we are led — I am using that verb in the loosest sense — by a man whose idea of courage is bullying, whose idea of honor is knavery, whose idea of loyalty is convenience, whose idea of patriotism is self-ido…
Political strategist James Carville has a warning for President Donald Trump: be afraid, because everyone is leaking.Carville responded to a viewer’s remarks about a recent Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan article. The viewer, citing Carville himself, said, “people in the Trump White House are leak…
With the war with Iran over, “at least for now,” Washington Post foreign policy analyst Jason Willick has pointed out a consequence of the conflict that has left the United States “dangerously exposed.”On Friday, Willick detailed a range of the war’s negative impacts, like the fact that “the real wa…
Zeteo writers Asawin Suebsaeng and Prem Thakker say Trump is so desperate to finally be rid of the war he unilaterally began in February that he is wandering around the White House, bawling in panic that Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu is scheming to drag him back in.“He’s swearing a lot about it,…
Dispatch columnist Nick Catoggio says President Donald Trump has plopped such a noxious odor on right-wing ideology that even ideological diehards are leaping out of windows to avoid him.“After 10 years of degrading bootlicking obeisance by the president’s many courtiers, it was startling to see som…
Excerpts from Regime Change, a book by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, reveal President Donald Trump’s private residence is filled with damp carpets and junk food trash, reports Jezebel writer Wren Woodson.Donald and Melania Trump famously maintain separate bedrooms, but …