President-elect Donald Trump and his close advisers, at the threshold of another presidency, are deeply engaged in America’s policy battles. Yet, I can’t identify one principles-based “north star” to shed much light on the agenda. Maybe that will soon emerge, or maybe there will never ...
Giorgia Meloni, the most consequential Italian prime minister in decades, met recently with Donald Trump in Mar-a-Largo in a surprise visit. The meeting underscored the rapport between two leaders who have risen as emblematic figures of conservative movements in their respective nations. It ...
Polling shows rising optimism among the public and the wind at Donald Trump’s back going into a second term. Across surveys, a common theme emerges: Americans are more optimistic about the future and ready to rally behind priorities like the economy and border. In a poll by American Pulse ...
If you’re putting together goals for the new year, make one to read (or re-read) Donald Trump’s “The Art of the Deal.” Everything we need to know about his leadership skills has been displayed there for almost 40 years. Some of its top-level anecdotes are pretty obvious signs of ...
If any woman was ever born to be the first lady of the United States, it was Kate. Glitteringly beautiful and dazzlingly charming, she was an engaging hostess whose table and conversation sparkled. She once rivaled a president’s wife as queen bee of Washington and came close to living in ...
When Donald Trump began his first term as president in 2017, I wrote that he came to office not as a politician who had won an election but rather as a businessman who had won a takeover battle and was ready to hire, fire, sell off, and generally to reshape the property he had bought. On ...