Each day, it becomes more urgent that Republicans and conservatives speak in defense of institutions and in defiance of the president’s posture.
In the aftermath of recent terrorist attacks, the French government has introduced new legislation that threatens the very freedoms it vows to defend.
Stopping the virus from spreading requires us to override our basic intuitions.
If you wonder how Biden’s appointees will govern, just close your eyes and imagine yourself back to 2016.
In delaying the transition, the General Services Administration chief is acting like an ideologue.
The question shouldn’t be whether the president can pardon himself but whether he can grant himself a pardon—and those are not the same thing.
Fox News acknowledged Trump’s loss. Facebook and Twitter cracked down on election lies. But true believers can get their misinformation elsewhere.
Beware of leaders willing to set their own country on fire.
The arc of history does not bend inevitably toward justice. Sometimes, Americans barely avoid disaster.
His presidency may be the establishment’s last best chance to demonstrate that liberal internationalism is a superior strategy to populist nationalism.
Being president is a tremendously difficult job. Starting the first day without preparation could set up a presidency to fail.
Debt forgiveness is not the best form of stimulus available. But Joe Biden shouldn’t waver.
As Trump’s odds of success decrease, the risks that his ever more extreme efforts pose are increasing.
The president’s behavior may not meet the term’s legal definition, but it captures the horror a government is visiting upon its people.
“I’m more than just my store,�? my father told me. And yet, for nearly his entire adult life, all of his decisions had argued the opposite.
Trump might be tempted to order a military attack on Iran, because his “maximum pressure�? campaign failed to thwart that country’s nuclear program.
Keeping kids out of the classroom will make recovering from the pandemic harder in the long term, while not keeping us any safer in the near term.
The nation faces an unprecedented crisis, and the president has left a void.
If Donald Trump eroded the faith of Americans, his predecessor's memoir shows how it might be restored.
Other countries are learning to live without America. Biden can’t restore the pre-Trump status quo.