Trump’s Disgrace David Remnick on the temper of Trump’s Presidency—the threats and firings, the multiple DOGE fiascoes, the proposal to cleanse the Gaza Strip of two million Palestinians, and his showdown with Volodym...

In the Oval Office on Friday, Donald Trump and J. D. Vance nakedly sided with Russian aggression and berated Volodymyr Zelensky “with all the finesse of a couple of small-time hoods,” David Remnick writes.

Opinion | ‘​The World Is There for the Carving’: Two Columnists on the Trump-Putin Alliance We’ve never seen anything like this: a president who appears aligned with a Russian dictator in targeting the weak and the vulnerable.

“What you’re describing… I’ve come to think of as a new Trump doctrine: Coercive Conquest. And what’s extraordinary is that we now have a president of the United States who subscribes to the same worldview of coercive conquest as the president of Russia”
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I had never heard of him until I was a student in the then USSR where he was famous as the USA’s only “political prisoner.” Prompted me to read “In the Spirit of Crazy Horse,” which tells his story. Highly recommend if you haven’t read it.