Politics Archive
Archives for May 2025


It’s more complicated than it should be.


The president casts himself as Israel’s greatest defender, while cutting deals with its greatest enemies.


Trump’s new resettlement program ignores the history of apartheid.


A glimpse into the bitter infighting consuming MAGA’s intellectual ranks.


Much of the hearing focused on whether Richard Nixon can save Trump’s tariffs.


Presidents can’t keep gifts that are worth more than $480 unless they buy them. This plane costs about $400 million.


Is our long-ish national economic nightmare over?


Trump is squandering one of his biggest 2024 electoral accomplishments.


Trump’s team had grand ambitions for reordering global trade. They’re backing down.


The president is keeping his hands off Social Security and Medicare — at least for now.


The strange connection between ideology and the brain.


America’s most powerful legal organization confronts Trump’s incompetence.


Israel has a horrifying new plan for “the concluding moves” of the Gaza war. Yet it’s flying under the American radar.


Don’t let polarization distract you from one of the most important issues the world faces.


His views on immigration may point to an early clash with the Trump administration.