Michelle Goldberg

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois used to be considered one of the best federal prosecutors’ offices in the country, but the last week has shown

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois used to be considered one of the best federal prosecutors' offices in the country. But the last week has shown that Donald Trump's administration is driving it off the rails.

How long can decent people keep working for such a corrupted institution?

The Georgia senator is excoriating Trump and his systemic corruption in a way that transcends the Democratic Party’s progressive-moderate divide.

Kicking off his reelection campaign at a rally in Atlanta last week, Sen. Jon Ossoff barely mentioned the two Republicans who are in a runoff to oppose him.

Kicking off his reelection campaign at a rally in Atlanta last week, Sen. Jon Ossoff barely mentioned the two Republicans who are in a runoff to oppose him.

In 2021, Israeli film director Nadav Lapid moved to France because, he told me, he felt his country was in a state of "total moral collapse." After Oct. 7, as Israel ground much of the Gaza Strip into dust, Lapid returned to Israel to make "Yes," an impossibly scathing, bitterly surreal attempt to capture that collapse on film.

Only the hackiest screenwriter imaginable would script America’s debasement this way.

This is an administration capable of immense, epic destruction, but unable to create much besides spectacle.

Only the hackiest screenwriter imaginable would script America’s decline this way.