"At the moment, the United States is negotiating with a regime that President Trump claimed we had already changed, to open a strait that was supposed to be open last month, and to end a nuclear program that we said we had obliterated."
No, things are not going well. Here's why:
A must read from the incomparable @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...
If you want to know what is ailing our politics, this is a big, big part of it. #RealTime
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Absolutely the worst thing about being a parent right now
"When I was in college I learned about the great man theory of history. I didn’t quite buy it.
And now, thanks to President Trump, I’d like to modify my objections." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/o...
"When I was in college I learned about the great man theory of history. I didn’t quite buy it.
And now, thanks to President Trump, I’d like to modify my objections." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/o...
Doomerism is indispensable to Christian nationalists, because it is only the downfall of democracy that makes the patriarchy palatable. But when you impose patriarchy back onto a society that has already embraced liberalism, you mainly remind people of why they chose liberalism in the first place.
When I’m in my more optimistic moments, I think we’ll look back at last year as the high-water mark of Trumpism, when the combination of arrogance after Trump’s victory and the inherent authoritarianism of the Trumpist project led to a unique period of state violence and legal corruption.
Fascism on the right. Communism on the left. Ancient antisemitic conspiracies seemingly everywhere. Tariffs. War in Europe. Gilded Age corruption. So many bad ideas re-emerging all at once.
Why? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/o...
"In their arrogance, Trump and Netanyahu defied their predecessors in all the worst ways, and now they court a profound defeat when, not long ago, a meaningful victory, however partial, was well within their grasp." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/o...
