Plus, the Trump dictatorship is cracking up; California's Democratic honchos may hand the state a MAGA governor; is Pete Hegseth killing Iranians to get rich?; and more ...
A weekly roundup of The New Republic's political reporting
Does God want America to kill as many of our enemies as we can—in as violent a fashion as possible? We have a defense secretary who apparently thinks so.
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The centrist group Third Way accuses the popular progressive streamer of being a "Jew-hater." His record, and an interview with TNR, prove he's the opposite of an antisemite.
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In the president's warped world, his increasingly deranged demands are never the problem—only his underlings' failures to meet them.
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At oral arguments this week, a few questions from the justices ought to remind observers that it's possible to rule against Trump while inviting other sorts of legislative or legal challenges to the policy.
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The state's Democratic honchos are refusing to impose any discipline over an eight-person field. They better act soon, or they'll hand the state a MAGA governor.
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The defense secretary's broker allegedly sought a stake in major defense companies in the weeks before the bombing began—just the latest example of potential insider trading on the war.
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When the Framers invented the pardon power, they never imagined someone like Trump as president. We need to rein that power in immediately.
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By Madeleine Dean, Norman J. Ornstein
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By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
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By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
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His administration is decimating two vital federal bodies that were created in response to the Great Recession—because that's what the bankers want.
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On Wednesday, Donald Trump decided to attend the Supreme Court's arguments over the birthright citizenship case, which will decide whether Trump can wipe away by royal decree the plain meaning of the Constitution and many decades of precedent to end the guarantee of citizenship to those born in the United States.
Trump is very angry at the high court. Earlier this week, he erupted on Truth Social, raging over the "STUPID" ruling against his tariffs—which was legally correct—and urging the "dumb" justices to side with him this time, or else. Trump's rage drove him to show his face before the court in an obvious effort to intimidate the justices into doing his bidding.
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Theroux has used disarming interview techniques on white nationalists, the Westboro Baptist Church, and street gang members. But they don't work in his new documentary.
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