President Trump says the war in Iran was won in the first hour, but we haven’t won enough, and we don’t want to leave early as the country’s regime shows no sign of falling. (Furthermore, Iran now has every incentive to continue to wreak havoc across the region.) He’s...
Good for SCOTUS on pushing back against Trump on tariffs, but do they really deserve much credit? And why did it take so long? The justices took just weeks in 2024 to grant “presumptive” immunity for acts committed as president—surely a much thornier issue—including insurrection and election subversion, clearing...
In Donald Trump’s telling, he has to win every election for his own ego. It’s good for America too, he’d argue, but that’s not really the point. (Or the truth.) So to assure his future well-being, he is working to stack the system with judges who will rule for...
After announcing he will close the Kennedy Center for two years in his capacity as chairman of its board, President Trump must have assumed he’d owned the liberals who once frequented events there. No more opera for you, wokerati! (A shame to miss out on “Cats,” though…) Anyway, he’d...
Current protests in Iran are reminiscent of the uprising in 1979 that forced the exodus of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and put the mullahs in charge. I was a reporter for Newsweek at the time, covering the White House. I remember learning from President Jimmy Carter’s national security advisor,...
Trump loves making deals. Trump loves shiny things and status symbols and spectacle. So does his buddy, FIFA president Giovanni Infantino. Having supported the president’s failed bid for a Nobel peace prize, Infantino today presented Trump with the inaugural FIFA peace prize—for someone who has undertaken “exceptional and extraordinary...
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s surprise resignation from Congress is exposing the deep fissures and roiling discontent in the GOP’s ranks. Two days after becoming eligible for a lifetime pension, and amid continued feuding with her former idol and the broader MAGA movement, she announced her plans to quit the House...
Everyone is trying to figure out what prompted the Democrats to surrender and end the government shutdown, giving Trump a big win just days after their biggest victory in years. They had the Republicans on the run—why would they fold? It wasn’t the flight delays or the SNAP fight....
