The Political Scene Podcast

“I think the Supreme Court, in particular, has proven that it is really fine with a lot of what the Administration is doing, and that they are basically willing to bend over backwards and ignore their own rules and procedures to allow the Administration to do what it wants,” Litman says.

“I believe that [Zohran Mamdani] won that primary for the same reason that Donald Trump won the Presidential election,” the governor of Kentucky says.

The President’s flirtation with another forever war threatened to fracture his coalition, alienating the likes of Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson

President Donald Trump’s decision on whether to attack Iran may prove to be the most consequential of his Presidency yet.

Without Elon Musk, what is the Department of Government Efficiency going to do?

What are the consequences of calling in troops to quell what the President has deemed “the enemy within”?

Donald Trump’s trade war, and his threats toward Chinese students, have endangered the close economic relationship between the two great powers.

Does the Trump-Musk breakup resemble an ancient Greek myth or a Godzilla movie? Either way, mere mortals will likely get trampled.

“Yarvin is spot-on that most of us take democracy for granted,” says the staff writer Ava Kofman. “And there is a profound inability, particularly, I think, in liberal circles . . . to defend it, beyond it being a kind of unquestioned, obvious good.”

A widely condemned media bill being passed through the Hungarian parliament provides a dangerous road map for how Trump may escalate his attacks on the press in the future.

“R.F.K. Jr. got so much gas in his tank by doubting the authorities that now he is the authority,” the historian Daniel Immerwahr says. “And he's really ill-suited for that.”

Biden’s deterioration was physically evident. Does Trump’s vigorous bluster protect him from questions about age-related decline?

“It’s odd to both want the billionaire’s money and to tell the billionaire . . . ‘Just keep your hands off,’ ” the staff writer Clare Malone says. “It places the media in a really uncomfortable situation.”

The President loves posting A.I. images of himself. The staff writer Katy Waldman sees these often bizarre representations as the “statements of intent” of a budding authoritarian.

“The amount of money flowing into the Trump family coffers is of a scale and scope that just sort of blows the mind in any context,” the staff writer Susan B. Glasser says.

After a hundred days of Trump 2.0, has America tipped into authoritarianism?

“The whole country is going through this kind of enormous, disruptive, destabilizing experience,” Susan B. Glasser says.