Franklin Foer

The release of the remaining October 7 captives shows that hope can survive even in the darkest hole.

Israel’s Last Chance

Trump withdrew from the fight against kleptocracy, and other countries have absorbed that fact.

The university’s agreement with the Trump administration bodes ill for American higher education.

To fend off illiberalism from the White House, the university’s president also has to confront illiberalism on campus.

The president unleashes a Marxist theory of power—but against knowledge workers, not billionaires.

If the bullying of Jewish students had happened to any other group, the institution would be appalled.

The Russian dictator has bent the world, including the United States, to his vision.

Zelensky’s very presence reprimands everyone who surrendered to Trump.

Max Stier wants to improve the government. Elon Musk’s campaign against civil servants is making it worse.

In a new book, Jeffrey Toobin makes a convincing case that Ford’s pardon of President Nixon set the stage for unchecked presidential power.

The right claims to loathe technocracy—but it has empowered Elon Musk to remake the government.

The president is pursuing the long-standing conservative goal of neutralizing the federal bureaucracy.

By granting blanket clemency to the January 6 insurrectionists, the president has unleashed violent, and loyal, paramilitaries.

The president who built his fan base on isolationism is pivoting to a kind of imperialism that the U.S. hasn’t seen in decades.

The president’s accomplishments are considerable, but on his signature issue of preserving democracy, he failed spectacularly.

The cease-fire in Gaza reflects another triumph for Donald Trump and shows Benjamin Netanyahu who’s boss.

To fight Trump and the GOP, blue states are planning to appropriate a Republican strategy: federalism.

Donald Trump has vowed to “defeat anti-Semitism.” His Cabinet picks tell a very different story.

With his Cabinet picks, Donald Trump is causing a civil-service exodus that may hobble federal infrastructure for generations.