Lexington
Our Lexington columnist provides perceptive analysis and commentary on American politics, policies, and cultural dynamics
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Can Progressives learn to make progress again?
In the political wilderness, Democrats are asking themselves how they lost their way
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The unbearable lightness of being Donald Trump
His trade war will test his trademark indifference to charges of incompetence and sowing chaos
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Donald Trump is attacking what made American universities great
More than Middle East Studies is in trouble
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The cover-up is worse than the group chat
A wiser president would admit a lapse and be grateful for the chance to prevent a more devastating blunder
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Donald Trump is testing more than America’s constitution
The country’s very idea of itself is under stress
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Donald Trump is setting new boundaries for political speech
You can probably guess who’s still free to say what they want
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Donald Trump’s Washington reaches a new partisan peak
His address to Congress showed that Republicans will follow their leader anywhere, and that Democrats don’t have one
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America has never had state media like it does today
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are revolutionising presidential communication
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For Donald Trump, the resignations are the point
The more government lawyers who quit over their own scruples, the better for him
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Donald Trump is turning payback into policy
And setting new, dangerous precedents for the American presidency
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Donald Trump’s defining decade
Will America’s president overcome the 1970s, or just refight its battles?