Jonathan Blitzer: The Stars Aligned Against Venezuela
Trump wanted to alpha male and take some oil, Hegseth wanted to bomb something, Rubio wanted Maduro gone, and aggrieved Stephen Miller wanted to bully the weak. The White House eventually settled on V...
6 Jan 1h 15min
Bill Kristol: A Stupid and Insane Foreign Intervention
Toppling the leader of Venezuela looks to be about greed and Trump's vanity. It's not about national security, and is likely to produce bad outcomes—including more repression of ordinary Venezuelans a...
5 Jan 58min
John Heilemann: The Year Is Ending a Lot Better than It Started
Only six months ago, the wheels felt like they were coming off of America, and our democracy experiment. But since the Epstein case broke wide open, the wheels started to come off Trump instead. And h...
31 Dec 20251h 12min
Julie K. Brown: Hiding the Truth in the Epstein Files
The DOJ is releasing random Epstein documents to distract the public, while also intentionally covering the faces of men in images. It's also pulling docs that reveal Trump's name. Epstein's victims t...
30 Dec 202547min
Bill Kristol: Trump Has Lost the Plot
After a campaign built on the promise that Trump was going to look out for his voters, he started his administration getting sidetracked by DOGE and Musk's phony ideas about saving money. After that p...
29 Dec 202546min
Kara Swisher: We're in an 'Eat the Rich' Moment
The year started with America's tech overlords kissing the ring at Trump's inauguration, and it's ending with the public fed up with the ostentatiously rich—and more distrustful of Silicon Valley than...
26 Dec 202554min
Tom Nichols: The Buzz Has Worn Off
Six months ago, MAGA world was strutting around with their chests puffed out. But now, many of them are having a blue Christmas over the infighting, the economy, the DOJ's inability to deliver revenge...
23 Dec 202552min
Bill Kristol: This Is Trump's Cover-Up
On the Epstein matter, the current DOJ is not just putting its thumb on the scale for Trump. It's his defense team. Make no mistake: The top two officials at the Justice Department are executing Trump...
22 Dec 202559min
