Steve Benen
Steve Benen is a producer for “The Rachel Maddow Show,” the editor of MaddowBlog and an MS NOW political contributor. He’s also the bestselling author of “Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans’ War on the Recent Past.”
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Against a backdrop of war and rising unemployment, the president is still struggling to focus on what matters.
The entirety of the Trump presidency has been a grand experiment in what happens when an administration embraces amateurism and de-professionalization.
If the president is right, and he predicted the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz, why didn’t his administration take steps to prepare?
After less than a year as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent is quitting over his disagreement with Trump over Iran.
As the Vance-led initiative gets underway in earnest, it’s best to keep expectations low.
The president is certain he’s on the right track in Iran because he’s received backing from powerful people he refuses to identify.
