Susan Glasser and Jacob Soboroff: A Dangerous Lame Duck
Trump's low approval ratings may be giving people the idea that he is weak and disempowered. But Trump backed into a corner could well be more unconstrained and more dangerous—and it could also fuel h...
13 Jan 1h 6min
Bill Kristol: This Is Accelerationist Authoritarianism
Grandpa Trump looked like he was losing the pep in his step at the end of the year. But with him threatening the independence of the Fed, justifying the killing of an American in cold blood for teasin...
12 Jan 56min
Anne Applebaum and Jacob Frey: Using Lies to Justify Violence
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey says ICE descended on his city with hopes of rounding up undocumented Somalis. When agents couldn't find any, they started driving around terrorizing people. And now with ...
9 Jan 1h 9min
Ryan Grim: An Unconscionable Reaction to a Summary Execution
Most law enforcement departments train officers not to stand in front of vehicles—or shoot at moving ones—but masked ICE agents in Minneapolis did just that after descending on Renee Good's Honda Pilo...
8 Jan 1h 6min
George Conway: Trump Is a Vampire
Biden and Merrick Garland thought Trump would just go away, but malignant narcissists must be made to leave. And with Congress not fulfilling its constitutional obligation to hold Trump accountable fo...
7 Jan 49min
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
