Fintan O’Toole

Signifying Absolutely Nothing

Trump’s war of choice in Iran is a performance of horrific military strength that betrays a stark political weakness.

American Imperialism and the End of Sovereignty

The Crime of Witness

Renee Good and Alex Pretti were murdered for daring to interfere with the Trump administration’s efforts to normalize abductions and state violence.

Whose Hemisphere?

The US capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro reinforces the Trump administration’s capacity to invent any pretext to justify the use of armed force.

The Lingering Delusion

Kamala Harris’s memoir 107 Days succeeds at least in distilling the evasions and weaknesses of the modern Democratic Party.

‘A Guy Who Never Dies’

For Trump, the great problem of the Jeffrey Epstein story is that it is the point at which paranoid fantasy melds into grotesque reality.

A Show of Force

What Trump was trying to demonstrate in Los Angeles is that he can project his armed power into every American community at any time.

Flicking the War Switch

Even when it comes to the president’s most serious power, Trump has established that he will do whatever produces the images he likes.

Can the Church Evolve?

The big question for Pope Leo XIV is whether he will complete Pope Francis’s mission to make the Catholic Church less tyrannical.

The Future of Progressive Politics

Forced Amnesia

The metamorphosis of J. D. Vance from economic realist to champion of Trump’s grievance-fueled politics reveals how little Democrats have done to connect with working-class Americans.

Climate Action

Organizing the Opposition

Vanishing Rights

Constitutional Crises

Shredding the Postwar Order

Donald Trump is reshaping relations between Europe and the US more dramatically than at any time since World War II.

From Comedy to Brutality

With his designs on Greenland and Gaza, Trump has signaled that his first term’s outlandish gestures are the second term’s savage demands.

The Second Coming

Disinhibition will be the order of the day in Donald Trump’s America.

A Richer Sense of Humanity

“History is as potent a presence as myth.”

The Protection Racket

For his supporters, Donald Trump’s misogynist attacks against Kamala Harris turn his own history as a predator into an asset.