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 ...

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.

Joshua Zeitz, a Politico Magazine contributing writer, is the author of Lincoln's God: How Faith Transformed a President and a Nation (May 2023). Follow him @joshuamzeitz. “When it comes to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Let’s be clear on who Trump is: The man does not come with a vision of his own making but with a stunningly effective capacity to sense fear within the ranks and weaponize it for political ...

Michael Schaffer is a senior editor and columnist at POLITICO Magazine. He has covered national and local politics for over 20 years and spent seven years as editor-in-chief of the Washingtonian.

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

Nahal Toosi is POLITICO’s senior foreign affairs correspondent. She has reported on war, genocide and political chaos in a career that has taken her around the world. Her reported column ...