The president’s former campaign manager was denied an official role in the Department of Homeland Security, but remains ...

Despite its name, the Department of Government Efficiency is not, so far, primarily interested in efficiency. DOGE and its ...

The first was a speech from Secretary of Defense Peter Hegseth at the 50-nation meeting of the Ukraine-defense-support group.

Their concerns proved prescient, and today, Scattered Castles remains segregated from OPM’s systems—fortunately, given recent ...

The fact that one can do so anyway in a setting of the highest stakes, while stating truthfully that the work originated in a ...

Today, the war in Ukraine ended, at least in a sense. Bloody fighting between depleted militaries will continue to barely ...

Last month, the night the Eaton Fire broke out, Charlie evacuated to his girlfriend’s house. And when he came back, the ...

The key criteria for those in the top-tier positions appear to be loyalty, wealth, and ideological fervor, not competence.

Yesterday, during Trump’s meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah II, he was asked “under what authority” he was permitted to ...

As a politician, Trump positioned himself as standing above the corruption of the system. That pose was also a way of ...

The good news, such as it is, is that the administration doesn’t yet seem to have taken the plunge. The bad news is that this ...

I remembered this experience vividly as I read Imani Perry’s new book, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My ...