John Heilemann: Did Trump Make an Ominous Shift on Iran?
At home, POTUS shows how much he wants to be like an Arab despot, plastering his mug all over the place and deploying the Justice Department to fatuously claim that Comey’s use of seashell art can ris...
29 Apr 1h 8min
Carol Leonnig and Will Sommer: The Loons and the Loyalists Running the DOJ
Acting AG Todd Blanche, who watched Pam Bondi get fired, knows exactly what his assignment is: Go after every political enemy Trump wants targeted, and charge them—even without evidence of a crime. At...
28 Apr 51min
Bill Kristol: Words Are Not Violence
Trump is a terrible president and he deserves to be criticized, even in personal terms. Our pro-democracy movement has shown time and time again that we can oppose him— and oppose any attempt at viole...
27 Apr 48min
Nicholas Kristof: What a Mess Trump Created
Not only is the new hardline regime in Tehran now more likely to go rogue as a nuclear power a la North Korea, ordinary Iranians—who Trump and Bibi initially claimed we were rescuing—are also living u...
24 Apr 52min
Ben McKenzie and Sarah Matthews: We Are Drowning in Scam Artists
Trump has gone full “1984” with his claim that it’s a good thing that the Strait of Hormuz is closed. He also says that he saved some Iranian women from being executed, which the regime in Tehran call...
23 Apr 1h 18min
Sam Stein: Can Trump Avoid Humiliation in Iran?
Trump's madman antics got him into a game of chicken with Iran, but he's up against people who are even crazier than he is. And he is not likely to get a deal with Tehran that is any better than Obama...
22 Apr 1h 6min
Tracy Alloway and Jordan Ritter Conn: The Global Economic Shock from a Stupid War
Trump keeps jawboning the markets to try to manage the fallout from the war on Iran, but we have yet to see the full economic impact of his foreign policy misadventure. Oil and gas facilities in the G...
21 Apr 1h
Bill Kristol: The Tough Guy Really, Really Means It This Time
Just hang tight: Trump is super close to a deal with an enemy that he handed all the leverage to. Absolutely do not read his steady supply of hollow threats as him begging Iran for a face-saving off-r...
20 Apr 50min
