Jacob Heilbrunn

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…

Trump has been caught flat-footed on Iran

11 March 2026 9:46 pm

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

The Democrats are on the march in Texas

5 March 2026 9:38 pm

It’s the best of times for the Democrats in Texas and the worst of times for the Republicans. James Talarico…

The Texas Republican revolt

4 March 2026 9:58 pm

Following last night’s primaries, Texas Democrats have a clear Senate candidate in James Talarico. Texas Republicans have a civil war.…

The Iran strikes might be Trump’s Sarajevo moment

1 March 2026 1:07 am

Here we go again. Switch out Saddam Hussein for the Ayatollah Khamenei and Ahmed Chalabi for Reza Pahlavi and you…

Trump’s reality-show State of the Union speech

25 February 2026 5:24 pm

Donald Trump may have celebrated Team USA for winning the gold at the Olympics in hockey, but he was not…

The Supreme Court is right to reject Trump’s tariffs

21 February 2026 3:22 am

At a rally in Georgia on Thursday night, President Trump declared that he couldn’t wait ‘forever’ for the Supreme Court…

Is Donald Trump becoming a globalist?

20 February 2026 5:32 pm

It was a banner day for Donald Trump. On Thursday, at the US justice department, a long perpendicular banner with…

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Washington is in a deep freeze

28 January 2026 7:30 am

As the Potomac ices over for the first time in decades, Washington is in a deep freeze. Democrats are about…

Far from all Americans support Trump’s advance on Greenland

20 January 2026 1:15 am

President Trump isn’t ushering in a golden age but rather an age of gold. The precious metal has hit an…

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Trump’s Greenland caper will heighten inflation

18 January 2026 1:36 pm

On February 24, Donald Trump will deliver the first State of the Union speech of his second term as president.…