Donald Trump Is Stealing the Kennedy Brand Donald Trump Is Stealing the Kennedy Brand
Does the Kennedy name stand for liberalism—or oligarchy?
Feb 14, 2025 / Jeet Heer
Trump’s Phony Trade Wars Are Evidence of American Imperial Decline Trump’s Phony Trade Wars Are Evidence of American Imperial Decline
President’s bullying of allies yields symbolic results—but betrays substantive weakness.
Feb 5, 2025 / Jeet Heer
What the Neocons Do—and Don’t—Explain About Trump What the Neocons Do—and Don’t—Explain About Trump
The president’s foreign policy agenda remains unpredictable, but his war on liberal culture has deep roots.
Feb 4, 2025 / David Klion
Can Trump Make a Deal With Iran? Can Trump Make a Deal With Iran?
More likely, things will unravel quickly, with war on the horizon.
Feb 3, 2025 / Bob Dreyfuss
Senate Democrats Are Attacking Tulsi Gabbard for the Wrong Reasons Senate Democrats Are Attacking Tulsi Gabbard for the Wrong Reasons
Preferring to defend spy agencies and line up behind the hawkish consensus, the bipartisan elite ignores the director of national intelligence nominee’s rampant Islamophobia.
Jan 31, 2025 / Jeet Heer
The Uncertain Fate of Guantánamo Under Trump The Uncertain Fate of Guantánamo Under Trump
More than 23 years after the 9/11 attacks, here we are in the very same place we’ve been for endless years—on pause.
Jan 29, 2025 / Karen J. Greenberg
The Washington Establishment Isn’t Going to Protect Us from Nuclear War The Washington Establishment Isn’t Going to Protect Us from Nuclear War
They’re protecting their bottom line.
Jan 27, 2025 / William D. Hartung
Biden Was a Remarkably Consequential One-Term President Biden Was a Remarkably Consequential One-Term President
Inheriting a post-pandemic economy, Biden orchestrated the best recovery in the industrial world.
Jan 23, 2025 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Free Ismail Lghazaoui! Free Ismail Lghazaoui!
Morocco sentenced the Palestine solidarity activist to prison just for protesting. But the trail of his persecution runs from Israel across the Atlantic to New Jersey and Texas.
Jan 22, 2025 / Nasreen Abd Elal and Rayan El Amine
Trump’s Military Is a Disaster Waiting to Happen Trump’s Military Is a Disaster Waiting to Happen
Fighting endless wars in distant lands is not the solution here. It’s the problem.
Jan 21, 2025 / William Astore