Recent stories by George E. Condon Jr.
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What exactly is Trump's closing message for the midterms?
As the president discusses baseball, cognitive exams, jets, and Sen. Husted's backside, his events have become more digressions than anything else.
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Foreign countries never looked favorably on Trump. Now, they don't approve of the U.S.
The president's reelection meant allies could no longer view him as an 'American aberration.'
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Trump sets record for loquaciousness. It may hurt rather than help.
For this president, more words usually equals a more muddled message.
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How Trump makes a tall task even taller
The president faces a challenge that's befuddled most of his predecessors: How to message a midterm campaign. But they never made it about themselves.
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The Trump-Xi bromance only runs one way
All the ceremonial flyovers and chocolate cakes can't get the Chinese president to return Trump's compliments ... or behave on the international stage.
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Trump promised 35 rallies. GOP candidates may get 5-minute phone calls instead.
MAGA voters are less enthusiastic when Trump isn't on the ballot. So is he.
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Republicans' love-hate politics
On the first day of their midterm convention, Republicans heaped adoration on President Trump, while branding Democrats as sick, insane, dangerous, radical, and weird.
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'Places for mischief': A brief history of midterm conventions
Despite what Trump says, there have been three such gatherings in the modern era, all for Democrats. They were disastrous.
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How Trump's fixation on old-school aesthetics could cost the Navy billions
'It’s fair to say this is the first president who thinks his election certificate also made him the marine architect of the Navy.'
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We’ve returned to the politics of the Gilded Age
It’s not just tariffs and wealth concentrated in the hands of a few tycoons. Today, our political divisions look an awful lot like the post–Civil War period.
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Is ‘corruption’ Democrats’ golden ticket?
From Reagan to Clinton, attacking opposing candidates on corruption hasn’t always worked out as planned.
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A Trumpian view of U.S.-Israel relations
How President Trump’s position on Israel differs from presidents past.
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What history suggests about Trump’s redo of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
The mercurial president’s highly anticipated remarks are the star of the show.
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Trump has hollowed out the post-Watergate reforms
Presidential historians warn that the chief executive has an increasingly 'monarchical' view of his role while Congress and the Supreme Court keep writing him 'blank checks.'
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The Mystery of Lindsey Graham
The South Carolina politician’s insatiable appetite for relevance took him on a winding path.
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After putting a rare smile on Trump's face, NATO ready to let sleeping dogs lie
Not eager to press their luck, the allies appear to be content with skipping next year's meetings.
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Is a boring NATO summit more or less predictable?
With NATO now spending more and keeping Russia at bay, leaders hope the summit in Turkey will be a repeat of last month's uneventful G-7 meetings. But Trump could try to fill the void with some action of his own.
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Trump's ultimately futile commitment to coal
He's given the industry funding, relief from new rules, even a mascot. But experts say it all merely delays an inevitable transition to other forms of energy.
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Solid-gold diplomacy: How Macron prevented a blowup at the G-7
The alliance's low bar for success under Trump means simply agreeing to meet again next year.
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At next week's G-7, Trump will encounter a more self-assured Europe
Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky, who will be on hand, holds much better cards than he did a year ago.