The president’s use of the National Guard serves his own interests above the country’s.

The president’s use of the National Guard serves his own interests above the country’s.

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His self-dealing is part of his larger efforts to weaken American democracy.

The president is right about wanting to end the war in Ukraine but wrong about threatening to walk away from cease-fire talks.

Friedrich Merz and Germany’s political establishment must unite the center to ward off the far right.