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Melania Trump
July 13, 2023
Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani
Trump Super PAC Paid Melania Six Figures to Speak at Their Own House: Report
The payment was not visible in the super PAC’s initial federal reports.
October 21, 2020
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
Can the Supreme Court Be Fixed?
The problem with the highest court in the country isn’t just that it’s too conservative—it’s also too powerful.
October 6, 2020
The Soapbox
J.C. Pan
Melania Trump’s Charmed Pandemic Life
The first lady once again gets off light—thanks to a gullible media and an incredibly low bar set by her husband.
October 2, 2020
The Soapbox
Nick Martin
You Don’t Have to Pray for Trump
Why it’s perfectly OK not to wish this president well.
August 26, 2020
The Soapbox
Walter Shapiro
The Surprising Boredom of Trump’s Circus Show
If the Republican convention were a TV series, it would be canceled mid-season.
April 13, 2020
The Soapbox
Nina Burleigh
Trump’s Women Are Trapped in a Cult of “Empowerment”
The president's silent accessories have been permitted to wield their limited power on his behalf in his hour of crisis.
December 19, 2019
The Soapbox
David Roth
A Unified Theory of the Trumps’ Creepy Aesthetic
The bloodless exorbitance of the White House's Christmas stagecraft reveals a deeper truth about the presidential couple.
November 13, 2018
Jeet Heer
To what extent has Melania Trump ousted the deputy national security advisor?
July 3, 2018
Jeet Heer
Melania Trump figures out a way to make six figures First Ladying.
June 22, 2018
Sarah Jones
The Trumps Don’t Care
The president can't see the cruelty of his immigration policy. It's not clear the first lady can, either.
June 22, 2018
Ryu Spaeth
Is Melania Trump having a Britney Spears moment?
May 30, 2018
Jeet Heer
Melania Trump’s tweet fails to reassure.
June 19, 2017
Magazine
Adele M. Stan
How Trump Rebranded the First Family
The president has turned an archaic institution into something worse—an organized racket.
May 24, 2017
Alex Shephard
The Pope seems thrilled to meet the Trumps.
February 23, 2017
Eric Kleefeld
Melania Trump’s $150 million emotional distress.
January 31, 2017
Graham Vyse
Betsy DeVos is the latest evidence that Team Trump has a serious plagiarism problem.
December 6, 2016
Alex Shephard
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Laura Reston
Trump’s Political Lesson: Humiliate, or Be Humiliated
Humiliation was the driving force of a presidential election in which the rules of decorum were laid to waste.
November 8, 2016
Clio Chang
Is Melania Trump voting for Donald?
November 3, 2016
Graham Vyse
Melania Trump apparently plagiarized again, and you won’t believe the source.
October 18, 2016
Jeet Heer
Melania Trump’s “boys will be boys” defense betrays a maternal kind of sexism.
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