Susan Glasser

In a Castro-length speech to Congress, the President claimed victory, while proving that even the most unhinged address can be boring if it goes on long enough.

On Trump the Almighty and his so-far quiescent capital.

It’s not just in foreign policy that the President is turning Russia’s way.

Amid the chaos in Washington, the President’s phone call with Putin has Moscow filled with glee.

The evisceration of U.S.A.I.D. isn’t a policy fight—it’s an execution designed to strike fear in our own government.

Tulsi Gabbard, Kash Patel, and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., bobbed and weaved around senators’ questions, but their own words came back to bite them.

A guide to the Week One distractions, late-night devilry, executive overreach, and the Administration’s early infighting.

The reëlected President reprised his “American Carnage” address, with repeated jabs at America’s “decline” under Joe Biden, but his central theme, as always, was himself.

The once and future President is back to wielding leverage like a club, in the Middle East and on Capitol Hill.

A report from Jimmy Carter’s—and Joe Biden’s—long goodbye.

On Chris Wray’s self-defenestration and the dilemma of being on the pugilistic President-elect’s target list.

The President-elect and his appointees now view their internal enemies as America’s biggest national-security threats.

There are many more manic Thursdays to come.

Trump’s “God-tier level trolling” of America has already begun.

The former President will return to the White House older, less inhibited, and far more dangerous than ever before.

But on the eve of another razor-thin election, it sure beats the alternative.

Nine years in, Trump is in reach of another term as the technocrats struggle to contain him.

Kamala Harris embraces the “fascist” label for the ex-President, without any certainty that it will disqualify him.

The former President has been fighting to win back his wealthiest donors, while actively courting new ones—what do they expect to get in return?

While Democrats engage in the traditional rite of second-guessing, the ex-President and his G.O.P. radiate overconfidence.