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David FrumThe Atlantic |
Mexico’s president gets to determine whether an immigration crisis dominates headlines in a U.S. election year. In early January, I drove along the...
Even the most youthful commanders in chief use them. Axios recently reported that President Joe Biden carries cheat sheets with him into meetings...
Will enough of Trump’s party finally be willing to stick up for Ukraine rather than follow his lead and bow to Russia? After weeks of backroom...
The Republicans who won’t take yes for an answer Sometimes, a negotiation produces a deal. Sometimes, a negotiation reveals the truth. Negotiators...
Despised as a racist by today’s left and a tyrant by today’s right, the 28th president championed a set of values that our politics sorely lack. ...
Congressional Republicans are blocking crucial aid to Israel and Ukraine out of sheer servility to Trump. On January 17, House Speaker Mike Johnson...
Against Donald Trump, who insists on making elections a referendum on him, the least objectionable candidate offers the best way of beating him. It...
As GOP leaders get in line, the outlook for democracy looks grim—in Ukraine, and even in America. In 2016, Republicans could profess some...
As Maine throws him off the ballot, the president who betrayed democracy is now pleading for its protections. Donald Trump won the presidency with...
They should take it. “The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary,” John Kenneth Galbraith wrote. “No economist should be denied it,...
Behind the GOP’s shifting excuses for abandoning Ukraine The White House and Senate continue to work frantically toward a deal to supply Ukraine...
The congressional Republican opposition to funding aid for Ukraine, Israel, and border security explained—as far as it can be “We’re not going...
Progressives who once argued that free speech is violence now claim that violence is free speech. Yesterday, the presidents of Harvard, the University...
American democracy survived the first Trump presidency. That doesn’t mean it would survive a second. For all its marvelous creativity, the human...
Debating Gavin Newsom made very little sense for the flailing Republican candidate—except as an exercise in huffing, snorting, and lunging at an...
Keep the endowment. Spin off the university. Ethically and academically, 2023 has been a bad year for America’s most richly endowed university. The...
The president is in poll trouble. He needs to remind Americans who he isn’t. Why are President Joe Biden’s poll numbers so bad? Is it because of...
A new far-left party now joins an older far right in threatening an enfeebled centrist consensus. Israeli flags. Guitar music. Bicycles. Strollers,...
In fact, it can’t afford not to. As his address to the nation from the Oval Office Thursday night underlined, President Joe Biden is expected to...
The requisite for GOP leadership is delivering fantasies—that Trump won in 2020, that the Republicans did not lose in 2022. Fail at that and...