Jacob Heilbrunn

Was Trump in Epstein’s birthday book?

18 July 2025 7:00 pm

Bombshell or damp squib? The Wall Street Journal has dived into L’Affaire Epstein with a vengeance, reporting tonight that Donald…

Has Putin turned Trump into a Russia hawk?

15 July 2025 5:36 am

No, President Trump wasn’t referring to Russian president Vladimir Putin when he talked at a White House luncheon today about…

Trump gets his Big Beautiful Bill over the line

4 July 2025 5:54 am

Forget Elon Musk. House Speaker Mike Johnson is President Trump’s new partner, delivering the victory that he needed to ensure…

Trump threatens to deport Elon Musk over BBB opposition

2 July 2025 2:37 am

It’s a time, as a great Republican once announced, for choosing. Elon or the Donald? After they seemed to reach…

Supreme Court allows Trump to recast America

28 June 2025 4:01 am

Donald Trump is on a roll. Last week, he bombed Iran and imposed a ceasefire on Tehran and Jerusalem. Now…

Is Trump ready to fight a forever war?

22 June 2025 1:28 pm

So much for the contention that President Donald Trump always chickens out. Trump has done what George W. Bush, Barack…

Has Donald Trump sided with the hawks?

17 June 2025 12:09 pm

That was fast. In the space of a few weeks, President Donald J. Trump has gone from being the idol…

Trump has been outmaneuvered by Netanyahu

13 June 2025 11:30 pm

The surprising thing isn’t that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attacked Iran. It’s that the current bombing campaign didn’t occur sooner.…

How Biden became Trump’s useful political milksop

26 May 2025 12:00 pm

It turns out that Joe Biden is one of the best things ever to happen to Donald Trump. Sure, Trump…

Trump has no appetite for a second-term war

14 May 2025 7:38 am

Now more than ever, Donald Trump appears to be channeling his inner Lord Palmerston. It was the 19th-century prime minister,…

Trump is treating Israel like a nettlesome supplicant

13 May 2025 7:00 pm

When Donald Trump won the 2024 election, the first foreign leaders to congratulate him were Israeli officials. Now, as he…

J.D. Vance makes nice with Munich

8 May 2025 5:42 am

It was an emollient J.D. Vance who showed up at the Munich Leaders Meeting in Washington, DC. Gone was the Vance…

Trump rules out a third term

5 May 2025 6:28 am

Is Donald Trump forsaking four more years? In an interview today with NBC’s Kristen Welker, Trump indicated that while his…

Is Marco Rubio the next Henry Kissinger?

2 May 2025 4:45 pm

Tammy Bruce, the State Department spokesperson, was flummoxed. ‘I just heard this from you,’ she responded after a reporter told…

How much hope did Trump offer Meloni?

18 April 2025 8:13 am

In early March Donald Trump said Elon Musk was doing “an amazing job.” Last week he said Governor Gretchen Whitmer…

Trump is starting to face tariff blowback

2 April 2025 5:34 pm

Liberation Day? Pshaw. President Trump may be gloating about imposing sweeping tariffs on America’s allies and adversaries abroad, but he…

Trump’s choice on a replacement UN ambassador is complex

28 March 2025 7:00 am

Maybe the surprising thing isn’t that Donald Trump yanked Elise Stefanik’s nomination to become ambassador to the United Nations. It’s…

The ‘government by groupchat’ scandal should cost Mike Waltz his job

25 March 2025 5:35 am

Blimey! Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg has written a fresh exposé that should result in the immediate resignation or firing of…

Cosying up to Putin has weakened Trump’s hand in Europe

19 March 2025 5:52 pm

Once upon a time, America practiced ping-pong diplomacy to try and improve ties with Mao’s China. Now Donald Trump and…

Trump has elevated the Houthis as an opponent

17 March 2025 5:28 am

So much for President Donald J. Trump’s serial vows to extricate America from the Middle East’s seemingly endless wars and…

Trump and Elon’s Oval Office Tesla auto show

12 March 2025 10:16 am

So Donald Trump and Sean Hannity are each springing for a Tesla. It shouldn’t prove much of a hit to their respective…

All along Trump’s aim has been to dispose of Zelensky

1 March 2025 7:33 am

So much for the flurry of visits by European leaders such as French president Emmanuel Macron and British prime minister…

Trump plays the joker with Starmer

28 February 2025 7:31 am

Donald Trump was in a jocular mood as he met with Keir Starmer, barely allowing the Prime Minister to get…

The AfD will be a thorn in Merz’s side

24 February 2025 7:30 am

Alice Weidel, the leader of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, didn’t mince her words. Speaking immediately after the German…

Tulsi caps off a big day for ‘realism and restraint’ in foreign affairs

13 February 2025 11:00 am

For the proponents of what they like to call realism and restraint in foreign affairs, it’s been a banner day.…