Trump promised to “free” the Jan. 6 defendants on his first day back in office, and he has now followed through on that promise. But this will not be a one-day story, and Trump — and the Republican ...

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In a new book, Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner urges the U.S. and Europe to join together in a “Freedom Trade Alliance” against China, Russia and other autocracies.

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Bill Scher is a contributing writer to POLITICO Magazine and the politics editor for the Washington Monthly. Donald Trump darkly jokes about it. Steve Bannon is promoting it. Democrats shudder at ...

Eight years ago, in his “American carnage” inaugural — the one George W. Bush described as “some weird shit” — Trump offered similar sweeping declarations of change, but words that seemed disconnected ...

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The Battle of Gettysburg, too, was explicitly a family affair. Many families sent soldiers who fought on opposite sides, ...

In an exit interview with POLITICO Magazine, Bush defended her tenure in Congress and touted her accomplishments, including successfully pressuring the Biden administration to extend a pandemic ...

According to a common variation of this argument, gaining a greater degree of control over Greenland — either by buying it, ...

Matthew Kaminski is editor-at-large, writing regularly for POLITICO Magazine on American and global affairs. He’s the founding editor of POLITICO Europe, which launched in 2015, and former ...

Matthew Kaminski is editor-at-large, writing regularly for POLITICO Magazine on American and global affairs. He’s the founding editor of POLITICO Europe, which launched in 2015, and former ...