Peter Beinart
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Reuters via KNCA The Weirdest—and Possibly Best—Proposal to Resolve the North Korea Crisis
The administration is nowhere near out of peaceful options.
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Pool / Reuters Is Trump Preparing for War With North Korea?
The omissions in the State of the Union, and the fate of Victor Cha, all point in the same direction.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Establishment Strikes Back
Don McGahn’s refusal to carry out the president’s order to fire the special counsel shows that official Washington still holds some influence.
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Evan Vucci / AP Why America Is Fighting About Immigration
Relative peace and prosperity cause issues of identity to rise to the fore.
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AP American Conservatives Are Contradicting Themselves on Iran
Where’s the habitual concern for unintended consequences?
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Trump Doesn't Seem to Buy His Own National Security Strategy
The notion of “principled realism” may please foreign-policy advisers, but it’s not clear the president knows what it is.
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John Minchillo / AP The Growing Partisan Divide Over Feminism
Democratic men are 31 points more likely to say that the “country has not gone far enough on women’s rights” than Republican women.
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Mohammed Salem / Reuters Trump's Jerusalem Plan Is a Deadly Provocation
The decision to recognize the city as Israel's capital increases the odds of violence because it deepens Palestinian despair.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The Odds of Impeachment Are Dropping
Despite Robert Mueller’s damaging disclosures, Republican voters offer Trump unwavering support.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Mike Pompeo at State Would Enable Trump's Worst Instincts
If Rex Tillerson is replaced, one barrier keeping the president in check will fall away.
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Ringo Chiu / Reuters The Right's Islamophobia Has Nothing to Do With National Security
Conservatives are finding new justifications for anti-Muslim sentiments—and embedding them more deeply in America’s political terrain.
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Chris O'Meara / AP Trump’s Anti-Muslim Political Strategy
Whenever the president starts losing control politically, he looks to incite rage in his base.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP The Deepening Partisan Split Over Sexual Misconduct
While the leadership of both parties views sexual misconduct as a political problem to minimize, the Republican and Democratic bases could not be farther apart.
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Frances Benjamin Johnston / Library of Congress / ... Reflections of an Affirmative-Action Baby
White men from fancy schools advanced quickly at the New Republic. Asking how much of their success was due to race, gender, and class would have meant asking the same of myself.
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Thomas Peter / Reuters Trump Insults People From Afar, Then Praises Them in Person
The Chinese and South Koreans have figured out how to leverage the psychology behind the U.S. president’s extreme shifts in tone.
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Jonathan Bachman / Reuters ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ Could Be Exactly What America Needs
Gandhi called prayer “the most potent instrument of action.” But will politicians follow through?
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Edmon de Haro Republican Is Not a Synonym for Racist
Conservatives must reckon with their policies’ discriminatory effects. That would be more likely if liberals stopped carelessly crying bigot.
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Aaron P. Bernstein / Reuters Lindsey Graham's 'Religious War'
Once a staunch defender of Muslim Americans and a fierce critic of Trump, the South Carolina senator now endorses the president’s approach to combating terror.
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters The Attack in Manhattan Poses a Test for Donald Trump
The president was notably restrained in the wake of an apparent terror attack on Tuesday—that hasn’t often been the case.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Anti-Trump Conservatism Is Politically Dead
Jeff Flake is the latest Republican figure to split with his constituents over Donald Trump, transforming both the party and the American mainstream.
