T/obama

  1. What Would a Conservative Superlawyer Say About His Firm Bowing to Trump? Opinion, May 21

    Ted Olson didn’t live to see how quickly Trump’s blackmail could reduce once-proud law firms to pitiable supplicants for the president’s grace.

  2. Trump Is Destroying a Core American Value. The World Will Notice. Opinion, May 18

    His overhaul of the State Department’s human rights bureau will make the United States weaker.

  3. The Tragedy of Joe Biden Opinion, May 17

    Even Shakespeare might not have dreamed up this family.

  4. The Only Trump Doctrine Is Dealmaking Opinion, May 17

    It’s the quest for the handshake that guides Trumpian foreign policy on almost every front.

  5. ‘This Is Less Like Governing and More Like a Really Nauseating Amusement Park Ride’: 3 Writers on Trump 2.0 Opinion, May 16

    What we can learn from polls about the president’s action-filled second term so far and how Democrats are looking.

  6. For Trump, Citizenship Has Long Served as a Political Tool U.S., May 15

    Raising questions about who gets to claim to be an American powered the president’s political rise. A Supreme Court case may allow him reinterpret a right enshrined in the Constitution since the 1800s.

  7. Amy Sherald’s Blue Sky Vision for America Arts, May 15

    At the Whitney, her pristine and color-drenched paintings of neighbors and dreamers and a kid on a slide challenge the conventions of portraiture.

  8. A Warning From Justice Souter: Democracy Is in Peril U.S., May 12

    Justice David H. Souter, who died last week, said in 2012 that public ignorance of the Constitution could lead to the rise of an autocrat and the death of democracy.

  9. Are Trump’s Tariffs Trying to Solve a Problem That Doesn’t Exist? Opinion, May 12

    A Harvard economist argues that a decline in manufacturing jobs is not what ails the United States.

  10. How Trump Can Close a Nuclear Deal with Iran Opinion, May 10

    Donald Trump will either have to accept a nuclear deal with Iran that looks a lot like the one he denounced, or use military force, with hugely unpredictable consequences.

  11. We Have to Deal With Presidential Power Op Ed, May 5

    Many of the current efforts to expand the powers of the White House build on the excesses of recent Republican and Democratic presidents.

  12. Trump Gets a Slow Start on Judges After Setting a Record Pace in First Term Washington, May 2

    The president named his first appeals court candidate this week, but fewer vacancies and other priorities have led to a lack of judicial nominations from the White House so far.

  13. We Were Friends for Years. Trump Tore Us Apart. Op Ed, February 4

    Politics drive a wedge between even the longest of friends.

  14. Don’t Let Inflation Bury the Memory of a Government Triumph Op Ed, July 20

    We got our economic response to the coronavirus right. Why would we let go of that success?