Biden is the war president Ukraine needs
Now that tank shipments have been approved, there’s no going back
Jacob Heilbrunn
Jacob Heilbrunn is editor of The National Interest. He lives in Washington DC
Thursday
Monday
The Brooks Brothers riot comes to Brazil
America is now in the business of exporting its insurrections
Wednesday
The Republican party goes to war with itself
From our UK edition
Florida’s governor Ron DeSantis declared as he was sworn in for a second time yesterday that, under his reign, Florida ‘will never surrender to the woke mob’. Meanwhile, woke or not, a different mob was disrupting the proceedings in Washington, D.C. at the nation’s Capitol. The same lawmakers who plotted to disrupt Joe Biden’s inauguration
Wednesday
Could Joe Biden’s Ukraine support define his presidency?
Zelensky’s very presence in Washington is a standing rebuke to Vladimir Putin
Tuesday
January 6 Committee turns Trump from predator to prey
From our UK edition
With the January 6 Committee’s recommendation to the Justice Department last night to prosecute Donald Trump on four counts of insurrection, obstruction and conspiracy, he has gone from predator to prey. Like Jay Gatsby, who believed in the ‘orgastic future that recedes before us year by year’, he has never doubted in his abilities to
Wednesday
Herschel Walker’s loss shows Trump’s fortunes have gone south
The omniscient grandmaster of the GOP is no more
Tuesday
Why Trump’s antisemite controversy just won’t die
His dinner with Nick Fuentes will weaken but not cripple his political ambitions
Thursday
Donald Trump, accidental Paul Revere
No one has done more to alert us to the perils of a demagogic cult leader
Friday
Steve Bannon is off to the slammer
As he’s sentenced for defying the January 6 Committee, all eyes now turn to Trump
Friday
What does the 6 January subpoena mean for Trump?
From our UK edition
Poor Donald Trump. The 6 January committee has subpoenaed him. The New York attorney general is seeking to put the kibosh on his new Trump II organisation. The Supreme Court has rejected his bid to stymie the Mar-a-Lago investigation. What next? Will it turn out that Jared or even — gasp! — Ivanka has been
Tuesday
A visit to Louis Armstrong’s old home
In any assessment of jazz’s founding fathers, he has to stand as the most influential figure
Friday
Biden goes nuclear
Alluding to ‘Armageddon,’ the president has become a warlord by proxy
Tuesday
Did Russia sabotage its own pipelines?
From our UK edition
It almost seems worthy of the opening scene in a Bond film. Vital Russian gas pipelines running beneath the Baltic Sea close to Denmark and Sweden are the victims of sabotage. The two countries have warned of leaks from both Nord Stream 1 and 2 after seismologists suggested there had been underwater explosions. No one wants to
Monday
Giorgia Meloni is no springtime for Italian fascism
Italy’s new populist leader is a symptom of European ills
Tuesday
Trump flails around for a lifeline
The louder he bellows, the faster Democrats rise in the polls
Tuesday
Pelosi is right to put China on notice
For all his bluster, Xi Jinping doesn’t want a war
Is Nancy Pelosi about to cause world war three?
From our UK edition
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Freddy Gray speaks with Jacob Heilbrunn, editor of The National Interest, ahead of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan. They discuss if this is a turning point in US relations with Taiwan, whether we are heading for World War Three, or if Pelosi is calling China’s bluff.
Monday
The underrated Kenny Dorham
On the fiftieth anniversary of his death, it’s well worth revisiting his remarkable career
Thursday
The January 6 committee is dismantling Trump
His rivals wait in the wings as the evidence against him mounts
Thursday
A concert begun in darkness
Remembering Rafael Schächter, a conductor imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp
