DOGE attacks a bastion of Republican internationalism
A mix of MAGA purists and internationalist Republicans staffed Donald Trump’s first administration, with the old establishmen...
Donald Trump’s foreign-aid cuts threaten his rural voters
THE TALLEST structures in Pawnee County, Kansas are the grain elevators. They loom over the cows, the low-slung buildings and...
In Texas, vaccine-choice activists are ascendant
In the oil towns of west Texas a measles outbreak is spreading. At least 58 people have been infected and 13 are in hospital,...
Why so many children in America have ADHD
Few things agitate Robert F. Kennedy junior, America’s new health secretary, more than the rate of attention-deficit hyperact...
For Donald Trump, the resignations are the point
When Emil Bove, the acting deputy attorney-general, set off an avalanche of resignations in the Department of Justice (DoJ) b...
Is Elon Musk’s war on fraud just cover for a power grab?
In 1971 Richard Nixon listed the qualifications for a chief of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). “I want to be sure he is a...
So far, mass deportation has been more rhetoric than reality
THREE DAYS after Donald Trump became president, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raided the Ocean Seafood Gourmet Ma...
Donald Trump wants states and cities to do as they are told
PAT BURNS carries Donald Trump around with him. Figuratively—he says the president gives him “hope”—but also literally. The R...
Elon Musk has been pushed out of the Treasury
As admissions go, it was an uncomfortable one. In one of several affidavits filed on the night of February 11th, Joseph Gioel...
How Bob Dylan broke free
“Bob Dylan didn’t have this to sing about/You know it feels good to be alive.” So sang the band Jesus Jones in 1990 in “...