Franklin Foer

Media conglomerates want the president’s permission for mergers—and control of news outlets is at stake.

The vice president welcomes anti-Semites into the Republican coalition.

Donald Trump’s destruction of the civil service is a tragedy not just for the roughly 300,000 workers who have been discarded, but for an entire nation.

The nascent effort to contain the spread of anti-Semitism is years overdue.

Ann Godoff, who died this week, cared passionately about her writers—and much less about her own ego.

The reasons other U.S. presidents avoided war with Iran are becoming all too evident.

He toyed with their hopes, raising expectations he never meant to fulfill.

Though despised by the American right, soccer is a clear expression of the president’s politics.

In Beijing, a lame-duck president personified the decline of American power.

The prime minister, a self-styled expert on the U.S., has shattered his country’s standing.