Jacob Heilbrunn is editor of The National Interest. He lives in Washington DC
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Charlie Kirk was shot on stage yesterday, speaking at a campus event at Utah Valley University. The Turning Point USA co-founder was announced dead by the President of the United States. ‘The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead. No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of
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Oops. The White House is claiming that President Trump directed the ubiquitous Steve Witkoff to warn Qatar that Israel was going to strike Hamas headquarters in Doha. But Qatari officials denied that they received any such warning. ‘What happened today is state terrorism and an attempt to destabilise regional security and stability, and Israeli Prime
It appears that Trump has successfully extorted a cool $10 billion from Intel
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It was back to black for Volodymyr Zelensky. After the Trump White House asked whether he was going to wear a suit for his Oval Office meeting, the Ukrainian president showed up in a dark military-style jacket, pleasing his hosts to no end. Even Brian Glenn, boyfriend of Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and reporter for
Putin handed President Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff something from Russia with love
The Kremlin has a strategic plan. Trump does not
The pressure to label the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group is building in Congress
It is hard not to feel a sense of foreboding
The president doth protest too much, methinks
The hawks in Washington are jubilant, the MAGA restrainers, as they refer to themselves, aghast
But he also triggers the start of the midterm elections.
Without federal EV subsidies, ‘Elon would probably have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa,’ Trump said
The power of federal judges to constrain the executive branch has been curbed
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Over the weekend, the US conducted strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Iran is weighing a response, and Trump has raised the possibility of a change in leadership in Iran. To discuss what comes next and why this move seems to counter everything we know about ‘America First’, Freddy Gray is joined by editor of the
The President is going into this battle alone
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That was fast. In the space of a few weeks, President Donald J. Trump has gone from being the idol of the Republican isolationists to the hero of the hawks. Only a few days ago, the Wall Street Journal editorial page was complaining that ‘Maga isolationists want the President to pressure Israel to stop the war before Iran’s nuclear
Iran may well seek to trigger a wider war that enmeshes America
The President continuously exploits his predecessor to provide a further fillip to his political fortunes
In Riyadh he channeled his inner Lord Palmerston
For Netanyahu, this turn of events comes as a rude surprise