How to Tell If Your President Is a Dictator

The Department of Justice is his personal law firm.

Fiona Hill on Putin’s long game, Trump’s transactional foreign policy, and the danger of mistaking size and bluster for real power. Plus: Trump’s grocery-price fiction and V. S. Naipaul’s Among the Believers.

Even cities with understaffed police departments have made record gains.

The president’s remarks at the World Economic Forum show that he still doesn’t understand how American greatness functions globally.

Moscow lets it be known how it feels about Trump’s threats against Denmark.

His interest in the 11th president’s legacy has conjured up the specter of manifest destiny.

In Quiara Alegría Hudes’s The White Hot, they hurt the people they’re meant to protect.