Benjamin Wallace-Wells

The President granted two hundred and thirty-eight pardons and commutations in his first term; less than a year into his second, he has issued nearly two thousand.

During the Trump era, political violence has become an increasingly urgent problem. Elected officials from both parties are struggling to respond.

“In the Line of Fire: During the Trump era, political violence has become an increasingly urgent problem; Elected officials from both parties are struggling to respond.”

| How do politicians respond to political violence? - BY BENJAMIN WALLACE-WELLS

Was the Vice-President's exclusion from the operation in Venezuela an expression of his anti-interventionist ideology—or a political calculation?

During the President's second Administration, universal principles such as self-determination and due process are wielded only opportunistically.

The present mess has roots in two entangled, defining White House projects: DOGE and the mind-bending expansion of ICE.

The two men might wish that they lived in a world where whoever dropped the most bombs got whatever he wanted. But the war has shown that this isn't true.

The exact reasons are often left vague and the successors to be determined, but people are leaving the Administration—including three Cabinet secretaries.