Gerard Baker

Three events this week have shown how Donald Trump sees foreign affairs: warm alliances are out, cold materialism is in

Trump’s Riyadh speech lays out a foreign policy stressing U.S. economic interests shorn of idealism.

Party’s senior figures will have to answer for what they knew about efforts to dupe voters about the president’s health

Tesla boss thought he could transfer his talents into government but there’s only one winner when you do business with Trump

Scale of its debt means US can no longer discount a market meltdown similar to that which greeted the 2022 budget

Donald Trump, the US president, has the habit of turning rational, credible people into raving zealots and California’s governor is no exception

Hopeless foreign conflicts have humbled many US presidents — Trump must tread carefully to avoid the same sorry fate

Desperate for change, exasperated New Yorkers have picked a socialist mayoral candidate who is bound to let them down

Desperate for change, exasperated New Yorkers have picked a socialist mayoral candidate who is bound to let them down

There’s plenty to worry about, but six months in the president has no equal in his ability to make government work