Jacob Heilbrunn

Trump Iran

Trump has been humbled over Iran

17 June 2026 8:27 pm

Donald Trump is engaged in one of the biggest battles of his career. After spending millions to turn the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool “flag…

Trump is in a sea of trouble over Iran

17 June 2026 4:29 pm

Donald Trump is engaged in one of the biggest battles of his career. After spending millions turning the Lincoln Memorial…

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Is Trump’s birthday extravaganza his last hurrah?

14 June 2026 4:55 pm

In January 1934, Franklin D. Roosevelt held a toga-themed birthday party at the White House to mock the accusation that…

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Are hostilities in Iran really about to cease?

12 June 2026 6:22 am

Donald Trump is trying to wriggle out of his self imposed Strait-jacket. After a renewed round of bombing Iran and…

Erika Kirk

MAGA is doubling down

8 June 2026 9:49 pm

Over the past several months, various news outlets have been prognosticating the flight of young conservative women from the Republican Party.…

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Why Trump is wobbling on restarting the Iran war

19 May 2026 2:16 pm

Donald Trump was for the Iran war before he was against it. His latest post on social media about the conflict indicated that…

Rober Kagan

The battle for the neoconservative soul

14 May 2026 2:01 am

Robert Kagan has long had a knack for capturing public attention with bold pronouncements about American foreign policy. In 1996, together…

Trump China

Trump is in the mood to do a deal with China

13 May 2026 3:06 am

As President Trump travels to China today, his original plans for the visit have been upended. He wanted to arrive as…

Trump is clinging to a mirage in the Middle East

7 May 2026 10:02 pm

Well, well, well. For all the head-scratching that it initially occasioned, President Trump’s hasty abandonment of ‘Project Freedom’ – his…

Trump is too busy with himself to notice the chaos around him

30 April 2026 9:59 pm

King Charles and Queen Camilla were at their most emollient in Washington, where they exchanged a flurry of presents with…

For Trump, it’s lonely at the top

30 April 2026 8:31 pm

King Charles III and Queen Camilla were at their most emollient in Washington, where they exchanged a flurry of presents…

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Virginia referendum loss adds to Trump’s woes

22 April 2026 9:07 pm

In 2020 Donald Trump became the first Republican presidential candidate to lose Virginia twice since William Howard Taft. Then in 2024 Trump lost once…

Trump’s foe-bashing won’t save his capsizing presidency

17 April 2026 7:29 pm

Has the dustup between Washington and Tehran come to an end? ‘They’ve agreed to give us back the nuclear dust…

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What will the Iran ceasefire cost Trump?

8 April 2026 1:19 pm

Might Donald Trump travel to Tehran this spring to open an American embassy and declare that he’s fallen in love with the new…

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Why Trump is tempting 25th Amendment talk

8 April 2026 6:58 am

During his remarks in Budapest, Vice President J.D. Vance, who is trying prop up Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as he runs for reelection, appeared to think the unthinkable.…

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Will Trump really obliterate Iran on Tuesday?

6 April 2026 6:17 am

Was Donald Trump’s profane and threatening tweet, which included an F-bomb and an allusion to Iran’s leaders as “crazy bastards,”…

Donald Trump is going on a firing spree

3 April 2026 6:15 pm

The surprising thing isn’t that Donald Trump fired his attorney general Pam Bondi and appointed Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche…

Iran doesn’t need pummelling to the Stone Age

2 April 2026 6:47 pm

In his nationwide address on Wednesday, Donald Trump could not have been clearer about the course of the Iran war.…

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Trump’s rambling Iran address was full of wishful thinking

2 April 2026 3:06 pm

In his nationwide address on Wednesday, Donald Trump could not have been clearer about the course of the Iran war. It’s not ending…

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Trump has already checked out of NATO

2 April 2026 4:03 am

Donald Trump, who will deliver an address from the Oval Office tonight, isn’t giving up on his aims for his…

Trump has shattered America’s ‘illusion of omnipotence’ in Iran

27 March 2026 6:32 pm

Donald Trump likes to use the phrase ‘go big or go home’ to describe his political strategy. It looks as…

The truth about Robert Mueller

22 March 2026 8:19 pm

In the pantheon of Trump adversaries, Robert Mueller may rank at the very top. Everything about Mueller – his rectitude, his…

The bad news keeps mounting for Donald Trump

19 March 2026 10:51 pm

Donald Trump thought it would be a cakewalk. Determined to oust his adversary almost overnight, the US President quickly discovered that…

Iran isn’t Trump’s only ‘imminent threat’

19 March 2026 9:52 pm

President Trump thought it would be a cakewalk. Far from capitulating, his nemesis seems to be on the comeback trail. Gabbard…

Donald Trump is tarnishing Brand America

11 March 2026 9:51 pm

Donald Trump has become something of a sole man. His cabinet members and White House visitors report that the President has developed…