Washington Watch Articles From 2025
Trump’s Plan: Now the Hard Work Begins
If US President Donald Trump really wants to earn a Nobel Peace Prize, he’s going to need to do better than his 20-point “Comprehensive Plan to End Gaza’s Conflict.” While in his characteristic style of exaggeration, Mr. Trump called the release of his plan “one of the greatest days in human history,” poring over Arab, Israeli, and US press reveals that most analysts are not inclined to see it that way.
US Government Needed Reform with a Scalpel; Trump Used a Sledgehammer
Nothing good will come of the chaos that has already been created by the Trump administration. In just a few months, it’s taken a wrecking-ball to institutions, agencies, and programs.
Trump and Netanyahu: Masters of Duplicity
Meetings between US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are more akin to a master class in posturing and duplicity than in diplomacy. Last week’s meetings were no exception.
New Poll: Republican Voters Want Trump to Press Israel to End War and Occupation
American voters want an end to the war in Gaza and for President Trump to withhold US aid, if necessary, to pressure Israel to end it.
Trump’s War on History and Education
Significant attention and/or concern has been generated by President Donald Trump’s early Executive Orders and actions.
The Damage Being Done
The combined efforts of President Donald Trump, Republicans in Congress, and pro-Israel groups, like the Anti-Defamation League, have declared war on the liberal ideals of freedom of speech and assembly and the very idea of the university.
Comparing Trump’s First and Second Terms
Among the significant differences between Donald Trump’s first term as president in 2017 and his return to the White House in 2025, this time around he appears more in control and better prepared. And despite the drastic measures of his first weeks in office, the opposition he is facing appears more subdued and less focused.
What Trump’s Threat to Clean Out Gaza Means
President Donald Trump’s “shock and awe” assault on virtually every major institution in Washington has been, to a degree, successful. There’s a perverse logic behind his radical cabinet appointments, widespread firings and threats to the federal workforce, and his seemingly scattershot Executive Orders that upset apple-carts up and down the street.