Peter Beinart
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Congressional Republicans Are the Real Authors of the Anonymous Op-Ed
The Constitution demands that the legislature serve as a check on the executive. In its absence, unelected bureaucrats are taking it on themselves to act.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters The Key Lesson of Ayanna Pressley’s Victory
Her triumph in a chunk of Massachusetts once represented by Tip O’Neill shows that the former House speaker’s maxim no longer applies.
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Siphiwe Sibeko / Reuters Trump’s Peculiar Sympathy for White South Africans
Despite the many graver human-rights problems plaguing Africa, Trump has somehow seized upon one affecting white people.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Why Trump Supporters Believe He Is Not Corrupt
What the president’s supporters fear most isn’t the corruption of American law, but the corruption of America’s traditional identity.
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Jeenah Moon / Reuters We’re All Michael Cohen
It’s not just the president’s longtime lawyer who’s stuck cleaning up his messes anymore.
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Sputnik / Reuters The U.S. Needs to Face Up to Its Long History of Election Meddling
Russian electoral interference has renewed the temptation for American leaders to do the same.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Donald Trump Is No Patriot
It’s not clear he even understands the distinction between self and country upon which the idea of patriotism rests.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The ‘To Be Sure’ Conservatives
Some commentators are bending over backwards to make excuses for the president.
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POOL / Reuters What’s the Point of NATO, Anyway?
Trump isn’t the first Republican to ask that question.
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Darrin Zammit Lupi / Reuters NATO Doesn’t Need More Defense Spending
America needs less.
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Gary Cameron / Reuters The Left and the Right Have Abandoned American Exceptionalism
Democrats don’t think America lives up to liberal democratic ideals. Republicans don’t think Americans need to.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters Why Joseph Crowley’s Defeat Should Scare Joe Biden
The Democratic Party’s shift to the left will leave centrist politicians hard-pressed to defend their records.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters There Is No Immigration Crisis
While it may benefit Democrats politically to take a harder line on immigration, that doesn’t mean it’s better policy—and political commentators should stop saying otherwise.
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Evan Vucci / AP Why Can’t Democrats Give Trump Credit on North Korea?
The Singapore summit actually made the world a safer place. The president’s critics won’t admit it.
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AP Trump Takes His Party Back to the 1920s
Cold War conservatism is dead—and in its place, the president is restoring the fear of foreign governments and peoples that once marked the GOP.
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Bob Daugherty / AP Trump Could Transform the U.S.–North Korea Relationship
In pursuing peace with North Korea, the U.S. president has the chance to do what Ronald Reagan tried to do with the Soviet Union.
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Morteza Nikoubazl / Reuters How Sanctions Feed Authoritarianism
Past experience shows that economic pressure does change societies—but it mostly facilitates hardliners. Iran’s regime may be next.
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Susan Walsh / AP A Radical Pick for the National Security Council
John Bolton’s new chief of staff comes from the Center for Security Policy, a group that was largely shunned by conservatives in Washington—but is making a comeback in the Trump era.
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Evan Vucci / AP Trump’s and Bolton’s Instincts Form a Toxic Combination
The interplay between the two helps explain the confusion whirling around the North Korea summit.
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Evan Vucci / AP 'All Is Shambles': The Days After the Iran Deal
Prominent advocates for withdrawal grappled too little with the possibility that the president cannot pull this off.
