Category: Magazine / Comment

As the death toll climbs in Texas, the Trump Administration is actively undermining the nation’s ability to predict—and to deal with—climate-related disasters.

How we got to a situation where a President can reasonably claim that it is lawful, without congressional approval, to bomb a country that has not attacked the U.S.

It’s not easy to trust the President to make an optimal decision. For one thing, he is suspicious of nearly every source of information save his own instincts.

A Cold War-era report is a reminder of how long suspicion has trailed people of Chinese descent in the U.S.

The President’s interest in the plight of Afrikaners seems to have begun with—what else?—segments on Fox News.

The biggest mistake that some universities have made is to presume that the White House is operating in good faith. It is not.

The Trump Administration is trying to use the case to stop lower-court judges from issuing “nationwide injunctions” against its unconstitutional executive orders.

Now we know that Donald Trump’s first term, his initial attempt at authoritarian primacy, was amateur hour, a fitful rehearsal.

Right-wing ideologues have long fantasized about the prospect of mass self-deportation: the Trump Administration is attempting something far more radical.

The danger behind the President’s posturing is that, by so emphatically insisting on America’s indispensability, he may be undermining it.