Nicole Charky-Chami is a senior editor based in Los Angeles, writing and producing breaking news. She teaches journalism courses for UCLA Extension and previously taught at Loyola Marymount University ...

Curt Mills was an 11-year-old growing up in the D.C. suburbs when the 9/11 attacks rattled him rightward. He was 13 when he started reading the American Conservative, the magazine he now edits. During ...

Not what motivates Trumpism, whatever that is. Not what motivates his MAGA supporters. Not what motivates the infrequent and marginal voters who delivered him his victories in 2016 and 2024. No. What ...

As 2025 came to a close, mainstream liberal and centrist commentators were boldly declaring, often with visible relief, that Donald Trump’s authoritarian power grab had exhausted itself. The tide, ...

Several years ago John Rigolizzo, then a fresh college graduate, spent two-and-a-half weeks by the beach in southern California with a dozen other young Republicans. They were not there for the surf ...

During the governor's race in 2022, I repeatedly wrote that Sarah Sanders was running to be placed in charge of a little outpost for the Trump insurrection that Arkansas would become. By nearly ...

In the face of all the disastrous things that President Trump has perpetrated upon the nation, from the killing of protesters in Minneapolis to the delegitimizing of vaccines to the abrogation of ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Donica Brady lost her job after the Trump administration cut grant funding to bring ...

“Dear Prime Minister Carney,” President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social on Thursday. “Please let this Letter serve to represent that the Board of Peace is withdrawing its invitation to you ...

With President Donald Trump suffering low approval ratings in a long list of polls, New York Times columnist Thomas B. Edsall declares — in a column/essay published on January 27 — "The moment is ripe ...