Jeet Heer

The president is becoming a typical right-wing Republican, thereby preserving a flawed status quo.

There is no "learning curve" for the president. He changes his tune for the same reasons a salesman does: to close the deal.

His administration can't get on the same page about Syria because there is no coherent foreign policy. Anything is possible, and that's horrifying.

The missile attack on Syria shows how the president has caved to the Pentagon—with deadly consequences for U.S. foreign policy.

Jared Kushner's rise as the president's right-hand man shows that Trumpism isn't a coherent ideology. It's a personality cult.

Sexism is making a comeback under the president and his heavily male administration, sparking a renewed war over gender equality.

Neil Gorsuch's nomination has put Democrats in a bind. But if they adopt Mitch McConnell's playbook, their progressive agenda will suffer greatly.

As president, he's given up on empathetic populism and bought into Paul Ryan's agenda to punish the poor.

He's always been more con artist than wonk. After the health-care fiasco, the whole world knows it.