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NATO Chief Warns They Can’t Count on Trump’s U.S. Anymore
Western alliances are turning away from America.NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte told reporters at a press conference in Ankara, Turkey, on Monday that NATO’s traditional reliance on the U.S. is...
Did Trump Meddle in the World Cup to Help the U.S. Win?
President Donald Trump may have revealed just how corrupt FIFA’s 2026 World Cup really is. Just hours after top U.S. Soccer scorer Folarin Balogun received a red card and a...
This Data Center Is Everything That Everyone Hates About AI
But O’Leary’s promises have done nothing to dampen local opposition to Stratos. In fact, opposition intensified throughout the month of May until Utah Governor Spencer Cox—who had initially backed the...
SCOTUS’s Anti-Constitutional Crusade to Create Second-Class Citizens
Another Supreme Court term has come and gone, and civil society is once again licking its wounds. President Donald Trump has obtained new power, the lives of trans people have...
Ten Great American Achievements We Can’t Take for Granted
National parks: Our national park system—more than 85 million acres of land—has long been the envy of much of the world. Even the Chinese government, no slouch at public infrastructure...
The 2026 World Cup’s Most Political Team Is Also (Probably) Its Best
Nearly a quarter of the 1,248 players in the 2026 World Cup were born in a different country from the one they represent. To wit: There are 99 French-born players...
Trump’s 250th Is a Festival of Slop History
The narrative reaches a climactic absurdity in the treatment of the debates concerning religious freedom in Virginia. As Hall notes, the Virginia Declaration of Rights, authored principally by George Mason,...
TNR Readers’ Poll: Who Were the Best—and Worst—U.S. Presidents?
For our special print issue on the country’s 250th anniversary, we asked about 100 historians and other public intellectuals to make some lists for us that summarize the nation’s high...
Donald Trump Is a Treacherous, Idolatrous, Know-Nothing Anti-Patriot
But the pivotal moment, or actually moments, in her career came before that. The first was her hiring, in April 2017, by The New York Times. The second was her...
Who Owns the Declaration of Independence?
Jefferson’s character and the character of the country being written and legislated into existence would eventually be judged by the terms established in the declaration’s second paragraph. An earlier pass...
