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His first-day executive orders would have prompted mass outrage had he attempted them in 2017. Today, the response is more muted.

I’m Still Here tempts viewers into a comforting lull before pulling the rug out from under them.

Whether renaming the “Gulf of America” or issuing edicts on gender, Trump is enforcing his own brand of political correctness.

Pete Hegseth has vowed to bring a warrior culture back to the Department of Defense. It’s a terrible idea.

Showing off his new big tent, the returning president played circus master to a strange kind of union.

His second inaugural address promised a “golden age,” but the ideas in it evoked the late 1800s more than any recent presidency.

At Trump’s last rally before returning to the White House, an ecstatic audience anticipated a historic presidency.

For the Islamist militant group, armed struggle now looks like a dead end. Its future in Gaza depends on the civilian politburo.

The failure of this particular prosecution is not the most serious or influential. But it might be the most maddening.