Analysis of the week's top stories by the best reporters in Washington. Moderated by The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg. Friday nights at 8/7c on PBS.
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"We've had hard moments in the past. We had a civil war. We went through the civil rights era," said Stephen Hayes.
"Winston Churchill ... said Americans always do the right thing only after they've tried everything else. But I feel like we're trying everything else."
Are you surprised by the shift in how Americans view immigration compared with 10 or 15 years ago?
"It’s a cycle," said Idrees Kahloon.
"There's a big surge, and then there's a huge nativistic backlash. Those migrants were then incorporated into the American body politic."
Tim Alberta: "[The founders] believed that the church should be distinct from the state, in part so that the church would not be co-opted by the state, and that the church would not simply just become an appendage of the state or of different factional interests related to governing this country."
“A lot of these Republicans who are now voicing their frustration and willing to speak out have been frustrated with him behind the scenes, in some cases, for a decade."
"This is not new frustration with Donald Trump. It's emerging frustration with Donald Trump,” Stephen Hayes of The Dispatch told moderator Jeffrey Goldberg.
What does Trump understand about the American people that 'elites' don't?
"This sense of grievance,” said @ashleyrparker.bsky.social
"That people feel like no one is looking out for them, and he is going to take that grievance and channel it and sort of cast himself as the martyr on their behalf."
"Peter, small question for you: Is the post-World War II international liberal order created and maintained by the United States over?" Jeffrey Goldberg asked @peterbakernyt.bsky.social.
"Yes," Baker said. "Our understanding of what we thought the world order was for the last 80 years is over."
During their remaining six months in Congress, the senators have demonstrated an eagerness to defy Trump and vote against his legislative agenda.
President Donald Trump is facing a Republican revolt from soon-to-be former senators he deemed insufficiently loyal. These lawmakers comprise the so-called YOLO caucus — short for "you only live once."
"We are the most erratic and unstable force in the globe because of our disproportionate, both economic and military, power," @sbg1.bsky.social said.
"The uncertainty that we have ourselves ... is a source of global instability."
