The Upside of Professional Rejection

Dmitri Mehlhorn has created a fictional world to game out constitutional collapse.

In his first full year back in office, Donald Trump presided over the destruction of America’s civil service, purging roughly 300,000 workers.

Its museums, more than any others, shape the nation’s narrative. No wonder the country argues about it.

The California governor’s pivot to the center may be too late for 2028.

Peer review has met its match.

The author discusses his new novel, Vigil; the source of his ideas; and fiction as a vehicle for truth.

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.