The track record of presidents who hit the campaign trail in midterm election years is poor, especially when their job approval is underwater.
Woodrow Wilson
Posted inPolitics
Our National Parks Deserve Better Than Trump
An excellent report on Trump’s raiding of its funds to pay for his gaudy, gold-leaf D.C. makeover.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Trump’s Threat to Justice: Comey and the Politics of Prosecution
As Justice Department attorneys reportedly race to indict the former FBI director, a former federal prosecutor reflects on DOJ’s madness.
Posted inPolitics
Donald Trump and the End of American Global Leadership
Once ‘the indispensable nation,’ the U.S. is now just another squabbling player in an unstable world
Posted inPolitics
Donald Trump’s Imperialist Fantasy
His predations toward Canada, Panama, and Denmark can’t work. But Woodrow Wilson showed how to pick up territory the smart way.
Posted inNovember/December 2024
The Regressive Era
A new biography of Woodrow Wilson puts the 28th president’s racism and sexism at the center of its narrative—and his world-historic domestic and international achievements on the periphery.
Posted inPolitics
Wilson Didn’t Resign. The World Suffered. Biden Need Not Repeat That Mistake
Wilson hid an incapacitating stroke from the public and fatally compromised his mission to establish a functional League of Nations. Once again, global peace and democracy precariously rely on a president reluctant to face a personal health crisis.
Posted inMagazine
Was Edith Wilson the First Woman President?
Woodrow Wilson’s wife had extraordinary influence. Then he suffered a debilitating stroke.
Posted inPolitics
Don’t Run Joe. Second Terms Suck.
A pundit pleads with the president: You’re better off not running.
Posted inBooks
The Endless Struggle Between Presidents and the Press
A new study focuses on the relationship between the White House and the media in the years since Woodrow Wilson, but it gives short shrift to the 19th century.
