The vice president has defended the administration’s handling of U.S. military engagement abroad and the Epstein files, even when those positions put him at odds with the right wing.

On Sunday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen struck a deal with U.S. President Donald Trump to avoid an all-out EU-U.S. trade war. The deal included a pledge to invest an extra $600 billion of EU money into the U.S. over the coming years.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer are meeting with Chinese officials in Stockholm this week for another round of trade talks ahead of an Aug. 12 deadline for steep tariffs on both U.

You can see the tendency to caricature Trump at work in the reactions to his evolving Ukraine policy. Plenty of thoughtful, normally moderate observers have insisted that the president is, wittingly or not,

President Biden in November 2024, to the chagrin of some Trump allies, had allowed Ukraine to use ATACMS, leading the president’s son Donald Trump Jr. to accuse him of trying to “get World War Three going before my father has a chance to create peace and save lives.”