2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (392+ words) The Houthi advance is bad news for the U.S., and even worse news for Saudi Arabia. Yesterday morning, those delusions drifted away like smoke as Houthi forces broke through their enemies’ defenses and seized the towns and islands around the Bab…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (195+ words) At a midterm convention, Trump tries to defy the odds one last time. “I’m asking you to pretend that I’m on the ballot,” he said. “I’m on the ballot. I’m on the ballot. Just one more time.” Read: Trump plans…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (130+ words) He was ready for life after the Smithsonian. Protecting the institution had taken a toll. Lonnie Bunch, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, was already slipping into the past tense when we walked together through the National Museum of American…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (75+ words) The Atlantic The president’s latest version doesn’t square with the facts. Where were you on 9/11? Every American old enough to remember the day has an answer to that question. President Trump has several. Trump’s view may have been clear, but…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (234+ words) The Smithsonian secretary protected an American institution from more than Donald Trump. Bunch, 73, would likely have chosen to retire earlier if not for his sense of duty—his conviction (which few dispute) that he was the best person to guide…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (171+ words) The shift to an economic pressure campaign could also push the conflict out of the minds of voters. If nothing else, the new approach allows the White House to say it’s trying something and then—importantly—to stop talking about…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (395+ words) The Trump administration gave its own explanation for why sanctions against Tehran won’t work. No sooner had Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced the latest tool for achieving what he said would be the “economic asphyxiation” of Iran than he revealed…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (707+ words) The Atlantic Before becoming a regular travel companion of President Trump’s, the nation’s top housing-finance official and the nation’s top intelligence official for one summer, Bill Pulte, was a meme-stock celebrity who was once honored in a livestream with a…...

4+ week, 21+ hour ago   (238+ words) Trump just raised the cost of doing honest business. “Many secrets; no mysteries.” That’s the master code of the Trump administration. When it does something strange, there’s never any mystery as to why: Somebody close to the president, or possibly…...

1+ mon, 6+ hour ago   (82+ words) The Atlantic Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. thought Nixon’s downfall would restrain presidents for generations. Instead, Watergate helped write the script for the scandals that followed. The cycle could be projected forward, too: Schlesinger closed with one more prediction, this one more…...