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Jacob Heilbrunn is editor of the National Interest and a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.
From bow-tied neocon to flannel-clad conspiracist, a once-talented writer becomes a promulgator of MAGA bilge.
In the fight for the Democratic nomination in Maine’s likely pivotal U.S. Senate race, Democrats seem to face a choice between the reckless and the listless.
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From threatening Denmark to belittling NATO, Trump has strained the alliance, but his affronts—including berating allies for not joining his Persian Gulf adventure—are speeding a European future without American leadership.
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The Hungarian strongman’s electoral manipulations created a system so volatile that a modest popular swing wiped out his supermajority.
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His proposed 250-foot arch near Arlington National Cemetery is pure Trump.
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Strongmen are weaker. Integrity endures. Peace is popular.
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The vice president’s humiliations in Budapest and Islamabad raise the question: Why did Trump set him up to fail?
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