Franklin Foer

The intellectual world that Norman Podhoretz created.

The agency once projected America’s loftiest ideals. Then it ceded its ambitions to Elon Musk.

In a new book, Jeffrey Toobin makes a convincing case that Ford’s pardon of President Nixon set the stage for unchecked presidential power.

The president who built his fan base on isolationism is pivoting to a kind of imperialism that the U.S. hasn’t seen in decades.

Sigmund Freud once applied his Oedipal theory to the leader of the free world.

Before Trump, one lobbyist’s pursuit of foreign cash and shady deals laid the groundwork for Washington’s corruption.