Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday told President Donald Trump during a Cabinet meeting that she has closed down an office that operated […]
Trump Signs Tax and Spending Bill
Senate Republicans worked over the last weekend of June to secure the votes necessary to advance the bill under the budget reconciliation process, which allows legislation to be passed with a simple majority. On Monday morning, it was time for the vote-a-rama, during which senators can offer unlimited amendments on…
Patriots in the U.S.A.
I chose to write about how the American Revolution really was an honest-to-goodness revolution and was seen as a really big deal at the timeāand for the half century after. But then, by the middle of the 19th century, the American Revolution was cut out of the story of the…
A Declaration Against Idolatry
The Declaration of Independence is a loaded gunālike Chekhovās rifle, you cannot just expect it to hang there on the wall without anybody ever trying to use it. But ignore that document was precisely what the founding generation didāthe Declaration looms large in our political imagination today, but Washington, Jefferson,…
The Ugly American
https://thedispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/trumppierre2.jpg?w=1024 āTrump just āGeorgia-edā an entire country,ā financier Clifford Asness declared this morning about the results of Canadaās parliamentary elections. Itās funny ācause itās true. […]
Republicans Hone the Fine Art of Responding to Trump
https://thedispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GettyImages-2208002493.jpg?w=1024 Congressional Republicans who have been around since 2017 already know the routine: At any moment, the president couldāat a public appearance, on social media, […]
Is This What Trump Voters Wanted?
https://thedispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GettyImages-2211177284.jpg?w=1024 Nearly 100 days into his second term as president, things are clearly not going great for Donald Trump. His administrationās first major domestic undertaking, […]
Fired anti-Trump prosecutor running for congressional seat faces tough questions in case he led
A former federal prosecutor with vocal anti-Trump views who was fired in late March is facing tough questions about his handling of a high-profile case […]
Green Shoots
https://thedispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GettyImages-2210188547.jpg?w=1024 So maybe Chuck Schumer was right. Last month the Senate minority leader made an enemy of, well, just about every Democrat in the country […]
The Good Tsar
https://thedispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GettyImages-2207999111.jpg?w=1024 The genuflecting yellowbellies of the Cowardsā Caucus in Congressāwhich is to say, Republicans as a wholeāhave groveled mightily in seeking to curry favor with […]
Trump fired a Democrat for refusing his orders, Christian employers are fighting to keep her fired
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission took a hard line against Christian employers under President Biden, forcing them to pay for employees’ hormone and surgical […]
Republican attorneys general found a loophole China exploited for fentanyl and got Trump to close it
While some online American shoppers are upset over President Donald Trump closing a trade loophole that allowed China to import some small-dollar parcels into the […]
Pay to Play
https://thedispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GettyImages-2208410177.jpg?w=1024 Ask the average political junkie to name a scandal involving Joe Bidenās son Hunter and I bet nine out of 10 would name the […]