David Frum
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Susana Vera If America's Democracy Fails, Can Other Ones Survive?
Yascha Mounk says the rise of populism isn’t over yet.
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Gianluigi Guercia / Reuters Can a New President Really Solve South Africa's Corruption Problem?
Cyril Ramaphosa has vowed to clean up the country. His early appointments send an ambiguous message about whether he can.
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Elizabeth Dalziel / AP Trump Repeats Nixon's Folly
This president isn’t the first to embrace a “trade war” to bolster his populist credentials—but in the end, it’s ordinary people who will bear its cost.
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When Gun Owners Become Like Hypocritical Hippies
David Frum questions the “self-indulgent permissiveness” of Republican gun law.
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Leah Millis / Reuters America Is Under Attack and the President Doesn't Care
Trump’s gravest responsibility is to defend the United States from foreign attack—and he’s done nothing to fulfill it.
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Conservatives Must Save the Republican Party From Itself
David Frum argues that if the Republican Party believes in democracy, its politicians must fight for it.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The Anti-Trump Recoil Goes Too Far
The overheated reaction to comments by Jeff Sessions dramatizes the need for a backlash that restores moderation—not one that swings the pendulum to the opposite extreme.
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Neville Elder / Corbis / Getty The Tina Brown Diaries
In a memoir about her tenure at the helm of Vanity Fair, the legendary editor deftly crystallizes moments in social history.
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Evan Vucci / AP Why Didn’t the White House See Domestic Violence as Disqualifying?
That the president’s staff was unable to recognize the seriousness of the allegations against Rob Porter may reflect how many members of his team have faced similar claims—including Trump himself.
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Leah Millis / Reuters The Unpersuasive President
Despite moving sharply toward his opponents’ position on immigration, the president again failed at the essential task of his office.
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Scott Morgan / Reuters An Exit From Trumpocracy
The stability of American society depends on conservatives finding a way forward from the Trump dead end.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Americans Can't Afford to Grow Used to This
A year into the presidency of Donald Trump, the country is in danger of accepting the unacceptable.
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Paramount Pictures / IMDB Donald Trump Goes Full Fredo
But unlike the Godfather character, the president of the United States is backed by powerful people enabling him.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump's Bellicosity Is Ceding America's Influence to China
The president’s imprudent tweets are convincing the world, and South Korea, that the United States is an unreliable ally.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters How to Fix the GOP Tax Plan
Instead of rolling it back, why not use a carbon tax to fix its regional tilt and benefit all Americans in the process?
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Republicans Exact Their Revenge Through a Tax Bill
Instead of eliminating favoritism, the GOP’s reforms load the costs of the state upon disfavored persons, groups, and regions.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Conservatism Can't Survive Donald Trump Intact
As reflexive support for the president redefines their movement, most conservative commentators have caved to pressure, following along.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters A National-Security Strategy Devoid of Values
H.R. McMaster previewed the administration’s new plan on Tuesday, which offers a striking contrast to the visions of other recent presidents.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump Isn't Above the Law
Trump’s defenders claim the nation’s chief executive can’t obstruct justice by exercising his constitutional authority, but haven’t considered the implications.
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Mike Segar / Reuters The Phantom Czar
Having Kellyanne Conway, a pollster, take point on the fight against opioids reveals a great deal about the seriousness of the White House’s effort.
