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Letter from Trump’s Washington

Read Susan Glasser’s Letters from Biden’s Washington.

The Retribution Phase of Trump’s Presidency Has Begun

There was a certain awful predictability about the F.B.I.’s Friday-morning raids targeting the former Trump adviser turned critic John Bolton.

Donald Trump’s Self-Own Summit with Vladimir Putin

Even the puffery-prone President couldn’t alchemize his non-deal with Russia into Trumpian gold.

Donald Trump, Master Builder of Castles in the Air

The Mar-a-Lago-fication of the White House may be the least bad part of the President’s legacy.

On Trump, Gaza, and the Perils of a Blank Check for Israel

Is the President flip-flopping on Israel’s war, or just muddling through?

Trump Redefines the Washington Scandal

In a Presidency where everything is an outrage, what does it say that MAGA’s revolt over the Jeffrey Epstein files is the one crisis that really might hurt him?

Trump Has a Bad Case of Biden on the Brain

Distracted by the President’s constant bashing of his predecessor? Of course not.

Did Trump Really Just Break Up with Putin?

It’s never easy to tell which flip or flop the flip-flopper in the White House means.

Trump’s Megabill and the New Art of G.O.P. Capitulation

Rarely have so many members of Congress voted for a measure they so actively disliked.

A Week for the Ages in the Annals of Trump Suck-Uppery

The NATO secretary-general goes all in on strategic self-abasement while meeting with his American “Daddy.”

Donald Trump’s Dictator Cosplay

Just how dangerous is the President’s week of militarized theatre?