She yelled, she flailed, she taunted. She accused everyone else in the room of rampant theatrics. In the end, even the MAGA faithful on social media struggled to excuse what they had witnessed. In the defining moment of her career so far, Attorney General Pam Bondi’s testimony in front of the House judiciary committee couldn’t […]
Politics Trump’s Attacks Never Appear to Hurt Massie The president has repeatedly attacked the libertarian Republican, but none of his blows seem to land. Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images At the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, President Donald Trump called Republican Congressman Thomas Massie a “moron.” This is not remotely new for Trump. The president has […]
Politics A Distraction From the Epstein Files? Trump has successfully shifted the Overton Window away from elite sexual exploitation toward rotating foreign vendettas. <a href=“https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/from-left-american-real-estate-developer-donald-trump-and-news-photo/1192977790” Credit: Davidoff Studios/Getty Images President Donald Trump has successfully evaded his trickiest quagmire—as quickly as the Epstein Files release came into view of the news cycle, it has essentially disappeared. […]
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to create a national artificial intelligence policy, limiting state regulation of AI. The order instructs Attorney General Pam Bondi to create an AI Litigation Task Force within 30 days to challenge states whose AI laws don’t align with the federal policy. The White House AI and crypto […]
Last week, President Donald Trump pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras who was serving a 45-year sentence for trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States. As the administration targets foreigners suspected of narcoterrorism in an extrajudicial killing program in Latin America, Trump has freed one of the region’s most […]
Politics Trump Appointees Are ‘Harpies’? Wokeness does not seem to have stanched woman-on-woman violence. I don’t know a whole lot about Virginia Heffernan, but from what I do know, she frightens me. She’s clever, widely published and universally admired, in part because—in Louis Menand’s words—“she can refer intelligently to Barthes, Derrida, and Benjamin—also to Aquinas, […]
From the vantage point of 21st-century Washington, DC, the French Revolution of 1789 may seem a distant historical event. Yet its lessons remain profoundly relevant. Even astute contemporaries like Benjamin Franklin and Frederick the Great failed to foresee the upheaval that would reshape France and the world. This oversight reminds us that revolutions often arise […]
Politics Why Jeffrey Epstein Won’t Die Trump should tell the whole sordid story, not try to kill it. <a href=“https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/from-left-american-real-estate-developer-donald-trump-and-news-photo/1192977790” Credit: Davidoff Studios/Getty Images President Donald Trump wants to bury Jeffrey Epstein for good. “We have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and ‘selfish people’ are trying to hurt it, all over a […]
Politics Pro-Israel Hawks Don’t Want to Talk About Epstein Neocons seek to stigmatize asking questions about the infamous child sex offender. It’s not working. <a href=“https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/jeffrey-epstein-and-ghislaine-maxwell-attend-de-grisogono-news-photo/590696434 Credit: Patrick McMullin/Getty Images “Where is Mark Levin on Epstein?” influential MAGA commentator Tucker Carlson asked last week. “I notice that all these very voluble people who do not […]
Politics MAGA vs. Ultra-MAGA The movement is splitting between those who value fealty to Trump no matter what and those who still believe in what it originally stood for. <a href=“https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/new-yorkusa-1116-make-america-great-2546054831” Credit: Fadziel Nor/Shutterstock Tucker Carlson told his latest guest, the Breaking Points co-host Saagar Enjeti, in an interview released Tuesday, “If you get up […]
