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Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He’s Right?

Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He’s Right? 300+The Atlantic by Michael Scherer / Nov 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM 6 Companies View All Photographs by Elinor Carucci Robert F. Kennedy Jr. somehow knew, even as a little boy, that fate can lead a person to terrible places. “I always had the feeling that we were all involved in some great crusade,” Kennedy once wrote, “that the world was a battleground for good and evil, and that our lives would be consumed in that conflict.” He was 9 years old when his uncle was assassinated and 14 when his father suffered the same fate. I happened to be sitting next to him this fall when he learned that his friend Charlie Kirk had been shot. We were on an Air National Guard C-40C Clipper en route from Chicago to Washington, D.C., and one of Kennedy’s advisers, her eyes filling with tears, whispered the news in his ear. “Oh my God,” he said. National Guard stewards handed out reheated chicken quesadillas, which Kennedy declined in favor of the quart of ...
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Trump’s Dreadful Peace Plan for Ukraine

Trump’s Dreadful Peace Plan for Ukraine The Atlantic by Phillips Payson O’Brien / Nov 21, 2025 at 4:38 AM For all the recent talk about Donald Trump growing more sympathetic toward Ukraine, and of the president being more willing to pressure Russia for concessions, nothing of the sort turned out to be true. According to multiple news outlets, Trump has blessed a 28-point plan to end the war between the two countries. The plan was negotiated by his envoys in conjunction with a top Vladimir Putin confidant. The deeply troubling details now circulating show what Trump wants: to help the Russian president—who started the war by launching an unprovoked invasion in 2022—and to weaken Ukraine, perhaps fatally. The Trump administration has not yet made the terms of its proposal public. According to news reports, Ukraine would have to cede more land to Russia—including all of Donetsk and Luhansk provinces—than the Russians have been able to conquer to this point. The Ukrainian armed forces w...
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A Self-Defeating Reversal on Ukraine

A Self-Defeating Reversal on Ukraine Trump endorses Ukraine peace plan •100+The Atlantic by Thomas Wright / Nov 20, 2025 at 5:26 AM The Trump administration’s new plan for Ukraine is apparently to reverse all the progress it has made there in recent months. And not just that—to create a much bigger strategic problem that will bedevil the administration for the next three years. The strangest part of all of this is that the plan emerged at a moment when Donald Trump’s Ukraine policy had finally found its footing after a very turbulent start. Over the past 24 hours, multiple media outlets, citing several administration officials with direct knowledge, have published details of a new U.S. peace proposal that is tantamount to a Ukrainian surrender. As drafted, the plan would require Ukraine to give up territory and fortifications in the parts of the Donbas that it still controls, cut the size of its armed forces by half, abandon weaponry that Russia deems to be offensive (including long-...
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7 Scarily Stupid Moments From Trump’s Interview With Laura Ingraham

tremendous content 7 Scarily Stupid Moments From Trump’s Interview With Laura Ingraham Portrait of Margaret Hartmann By Margaret Hartmann, senior editor for Intelligencer who has worked at New York since 2012 2:05 P.M. Laura Ingraham’s interview with Donald Trump, which aired on Monday night, was a little unusual for her. When the Fox News host interviewed the president last spring, she fawned over his gaudy Oval Office renovations and simply nodded as he claimed you can’t make a gold paint. This time, she actually pushed back on a few points, such as his claim that “costs are way down” and Americans’ concerns about the economy are some kind of Democratic conspiracy. On Trump’s end, the interview was full of all his usual nonsense, like calling Chuck Schumer a Palestinian and claiming he’s going to replace Obamacare with some hazy alternative he can’t really describe. But quite a few moments stood out for their terrifying absurdity. Sure, a decade into this thing, we all know Trump s...
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America Is Great When America Is Good

America Is Great When America Is Good The Atlantic by Nancy Pelosi / Nov 6, 2025 at 10:10 AM Is this article about Military? 🇺🇸 USA! USA! USA! 🇺🇸 As America approaches the 250th anniversary of its founding, I have returned again and again to the words of Thomas Paine, who advanced the cause of American freedom with a memorable call to action: The times have found us. The times had indeed found Paine, and the rest of our Founders, who summoned the courage to declare independence from a king; to win a war against the strongest empire in the world; and to write our Constitution (thank goodness they made it amendable). In the century that followed, the times found Abraham Lincoln, who saved our union by winning the Civil War. And now the times have found us once again. In our own lives, and in the life of our nation, great good can come from great trials. But we also know this: Nothing we love ever comes easily. Ours is a nation forged by war and protest, in the loneliness of strugg...
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Hundreds of Generals Try to Keep a Straight Face

Hundreds of Generals Try to Keep a Straight Face Trump and Hegseth push military standards •The Atlantic by Nancy A. Youssef / Sep 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM In the days before Pete Hegseth stepped onstage to address the hundreds of generals and admirals he summoned for a mysterious meeting outside Washington, D.C., officials at the Pentagon joked that the defense secretary could have saved a lot of time and money by making his remarks via email instead. As it turns out, what Hegseth delivered at Marine Corps Base Quantico could very well have been a copy of his 2024 book, The War on Warriors, which offers an exhaustive rebuke of the military he left in 2021 with the National Guard rank of major. Hegseth’s speech, which required yanking commanders from posts dotting the globe and whisking them to Washington at taxpayers’ expense, marked a new phase in the former Fox News host’s campaign to transform the military in his image and align it more closely with the MAGA agenda. All of the patho...
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Trump isn't the gravest threat to our democracy — it's something even less human

Trump isn't the gravest threat to our democracy — it's something even less human Raw Story by Thom Hartmann / Oct 31, 2025 at 8:29 AM Some data points for your consideration: Last Saturday in Chicago’s affluent Old Irving Park neighborhood, Donald Trump’s secret, masked police violently pulled a 67‑year‑old U.S. citizen — a member of a local running club returning to his home from a run — out of his car and threw him to the street, where they assaulted him with such force that they broke six ribs and left him with internal bleeding. Trump is openly taking bribes, publicly ordering political prosecutions, murdering people in naked violation of both US and international law, all while claiming the Supreme Court gave him absolute immunity from prosecution for any crime. An MIT study finds that lies presented as news travel six times faster across social media than truths. While more than 75 percent of Americans trusted the news 50 years ago, today that number is a mere 28 perc...
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