Tag: trump

Columns

The Decline of The New Criterion

John Ganz

January 10, 2018

How do you go from witty reviews about Hegel and Kierkegaard to recommending a book by The Veritas Project’s James O’Keefe?

Throne of Games

Chris Lehmann

January 08, 2018

According to Michael Wolff, Trump’s inner circle exists in acute triage conditions, and is forever unable to anticipate the next squalid yawp from the presidential id.

You’re a Monster, Mr. Trump

Chris Norris

December 22, 2017

The long national nightmare is a long way from over. 'Tis the season for epic corruption.

Show Workers the Money!

Sarah Jaffe

December 01, 2017

Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. We’re now several months into the Trump administration, and activists have scored some important victories in those months. Yet there is always more to be done, and for many people, the question of where to focus and how to help remains. ...

Why Trump Is an Effective Negotiator

David Rees

November 13, 2017

Trump negotiates out of neediness. And—in some type of way—it works.

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

Max B. Sawicky

October 31, 2017

Welcome to Mueller time. The indictments have begun.

General McMaster and the Miniskirts

Rafia Zakaria

August 24, 2017

It was the miniskirts that did it. For many long months of Donald Trump’s unhinged presidency, his collection of stern-faced generals had been begging to send more troops into Afghanistan to stop hemorrhaging losses to the ascendant Taliban. The president did not want to do ...

The President of Blank Sucking Nullity

David Roth

August 22, 2017

Any attempt at psychologizing Trump should begin and end here: he is a blank sucking void of vanity and appetite.

Battle of the Brands

Chris Lehmann

July 06, 2017

The Trump-CNN feud has nothing to do with the conduct of journalism, and everything to do with brand positioning.

Voting Off the Apprentice President

Kathleen Geier

June 19, 2017

A Trump impeachment would demonstrate to voters that the Democratic Party’s days of coddling the rich and powerful are over.

Eat the Press

Chris Lehmann

June 08, 2017

GOP strategists want the news media to be their chew toy.

Trump, Pumped and Dumped

Max B. Sawicky

May 17, 2017

As the tally of Donald Trump’s high and low crimes and misdemeanors grows, discussion of his removal tends to run aground when the subject of impeachment comes up. His support in the Congress is said to be too deep. You need a majority of votes in the House to impeach, and ...