The One Place Trump’s Power Remains Constrained
In the criminal-justice system, when the president’s bluster collides with facts and evidence, he keeps losing.
Ideas
The Conservative Movement’s Intellectual Collapse
Trump is both a product and a cause of the decline in intellectual standards on the right.
California Is Tired of Letting People Die
Long-term involuntary treatment is back. Is it working?
What the Deported Venezuelans Went Through in El Salvador
Forty men sent to El Salvador by the Trump administration have shared disturbing accounts of abuse by a regime that America paid to imprison them.
Tilting the Playing Field
Trump and his allies seem to want to transform American politics into a system for producing Republican victory.
Marjorie Taylor Greene Came So Close to Getting the Joke
What the Georgia representative learned in Washington
The Murky Plan That Ensures a Future War
Who will benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
The Intellectual and Moral Decline of the American Right
The conservative backlash against Nick Fuentes has yet to challenge the president who had him over for dinner.
The GOP Is Realizing That Trump Won’t Be Around Forever
The intra-party fight over the Epstein files was only the prelude.
Trump’s Devastating Plan for Ukraine
The White House is giving Putin permission to try again.