1+ hour, 9+ min ago   (149+ words) Has Anyone Checked on J. D. Vance and Tulsi Gabbard?The Atlantic The Trump allies who previously warned against intervention have gone conspicuously silent. It was Gabbard's first and only comment on the raid. She has not always been so reticent about…...

1+ hour, 18+ min ago   (275+ words) The president seems intoxicated with military power. Rudyard Kipling's "Recessional" shocked its readers in 1897, when he wrote it for the complacent celebrations of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee. The poem read differently and more ominously after 1898, when Britain entered a wretchedly…...

3+ hour, 24+ min ago   (133+ words) America went to extraordinary lengths to throw off the rituals of monarchy. Why would we fall for royal trappings now? If little was said at Washington's levees, much was said about them, beginning with the fact that the entire practice…...

3+ hour, 56+ min ago   (1266+ words) David Rothkopf on how the Trump administration's contempt toward planning all but ensures a mess in Venezuela. Plus: Donald Trump's predatory worldview and Rudyard Kipling's "Recessional." Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube On this week's episode of The David Frum…...

10+ hour, 24+ min ago   (327+ words) As bad as things look, the country's democratic forces broke through a similar jam in 1958. The Trump administration's forceful removal of Nicol's Maduro from office has not liberated the Venezuelan opposition so much as confronted it with an existential choice....

11+ hour, 24+ min ago   (1298+ words) Stephen Miller is turning President Trump's most incendiary impulses into policy. Stephen Miller runs his daily 10 a.m. conference calls'yes, even on Saturdays'less like a government adviser and more like a wartime general. His is the dominant voice, as he plays the…...

18+ hour, 2+ min ago   (368+ words) Why the Trump administration is posting messages like "THIS IS OUR HEMISPHERE" after the attack on Venezuela This weekend's attack on Venezuela produced plenty of indelible images. The one burned into my brain was shared by President Donald Trump on…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (36+ words) The Big Story: Venezuela and a Warning for Other World Leaders'The Atlantic Their conversation will stream live on this page on Wednesday, January 7, at 11 a.m. ET. Add The Big Story to your calendar....

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (949+ words) California's Gavin Newsom would rather be wrong than weak. Newsom slaps his hand on a marked-up hardback of Bill Clinton's memoir, brought down from the shelf a minute earlier. "Given the choice," he tells me, summing up a crucial Clinton…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (585+ words) There were signs that January 6 was going to be an unusual day. The House would not be in session until the afternoon, but we were asked to arrive before 8 a.m. On my drive to work, I saw hundreds of people wearing…...