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Democrats’ 2026 Prospects Are Getting Worse
Democrats face steep odds in the 2026 midterms with key Senate retirements and swing-district House members eyeing Senate runs, threatening control of both chambers.
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It’s Fair To Say Waltz’s Colleagues Won’t Trust Him Again
There’s no getting around the fact that Signal-gate was a blunder.
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Policing as Public Health
Integrating police into violence-prevention efforts can strengthen public safety.
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My Mind Is Blown as Trump Turns Around Biden’s Mess
Two months into President Donald Trump’s second term, I had expected to be embarrassed and outraged. But I’m not. I’m pleasantly surprised.
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We’re Not Short on Power. We’re Just Too Sanctimonious To Generate It.
The headlines framed it as another Trump tariff story: Ontario Premier Doug Ford threatening a 25 percent retaliation on American energy exports. But the real story of the Northeastern energy crisis is more than cross-border drama and goes back well before the tariffs and trumpeting. Ford’s threat is the latest lash in a decades-long ritual […]
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Why Economic Sanctions Against Iran Are Backfiring
How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare, by Narges Bajoghli, Vali Nasr, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, and Ali Vaez, Stanford University Press, 212 pages, $24 If there’s one part of foreign policy where President Donald Trump has been consistent, it’s economic sanctions on Iran. During his first presidency, Trump imposed what the State Department […]
