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Alex Brandon / AP Where ‘America First’ Once Led
A new exhibit reveals America’s isolationist attitudes and policies during the Holocaust—and speaks to where the country still stands today.
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Andrew Harnik / AP A Reckoning for Obama's Foreign-Policy Legacy
Veterans of the last administration are learning a hard lesson: Policies constructed by executive order and executive agreement are just as easily blown up by them.
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AP Photo The Party of Ike
Eisenhower—embodying prudence, diligence, and broad-mindedness—offers conservatives in the age of Trump a different model of leadership.
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Omar Sanadiki / Reuters Neither Precise Nor Proportionate
Trump’s attack on Syria was unserious but intended to relieve emotional pressure—and in many ways, worse than doing nothing at all.
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AP A Modest Plea for Patriotic History
If Americans were more familiar with the complex heroes of their past, they would be better equipped to recognize people of good character today.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters McMaster's Choice
Before he was the national-security adviser, he wrote a lacerating account of generals who failed in advising Lyndon Johnson. What will he say now that he is free to talk about Trump?
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Team of Sycophants
Tillerson’s dismissal leaves the White House more than ever the conniving and dishonest court of an erratic, ill-informed, and willful monarch.
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Michaela Rehle / Reuters Witnessing the Collapse of the Global Elite
Last weekend’s security conference in Munich was a stark reminder that this class has nothing of substance to offer a world in turmoil.
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Ron Frehm / AP The Truth About Military Parades
Military parades say more about those who order and watch them than those who participate in them.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Americans Are Rising to This Historic Moment
The commitment of ordinary citizens to democratic ideals is being tested each day—and its enduring strength is containing the damage of Trump’s presidency.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Not Our Finest Hour
Darkest Hour presents Churchill as a Trump-like populist—and in the process, elides the lessons contemporary audiences might learn from his wartime leadership.
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Kyodo / Reuters Waiting for the Bomb to Drop
There are sounds, for those who can hear them, of the preliminary and muffled drumbeats of war.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Three Ways to Read Trump's National Security Strategy
Is it better approached as a sacred text, or examined like the scat of a shaggy, woodland beast?
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James Lawler Duggan / Reuters The Worst Secretary of State in Living Memory
Rex Tillerson’s successor will inherit the monumental task of cleaning up the mess he’s made of the State Department.
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AP America's Crisis of Courage
Character remains the issue that confronts us in almost every story about national politics today.
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Charles Mostoller / Reuters Two Wounded Warriors
Senator John McCain and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly offered starkly different visions of service—and of America.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Rex Tillerson Must Go
“If he does remain, it will be yet another sign of the collapse of self respect among those who are now willing to serve in senior positions in government.”
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Mike McQuade How Trump Is Ending the American Era
For all the visible damage the president has done to the nation’s global standing, things are much worse below the surface.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Is It Time for Trump Aides to Resign?
Many presidential appointees face an agonizing choice—leave the president with fewer restraints on his darker impulses, or stay to serve the republic even if it costs their integrity.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters America Is Not Ready for a War in North Korea
If loose words about fire and fury are a mere negotiating tactic, they will not deliver what the United States desires.
