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2 weeks ago | 
nationaljournal.com | Erin Durkin |Tom DeFrank |Savannah Behrmann
Elizabeth Goitein, co-director of the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty and National Security Program, is an expert on presidential emergency powers. Goitein spoke with Savannah Behrmann about President Trump’s deployment of the military in response to protests in Los Angeles, the implications of invoking the Insurrection Act, and her concerns about executive overreach. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
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2 months ago | 
nationaljournal.com | Tom DeFrank |Ledyard King |Philip Athey
On March 28, she went on the Daily Beast Podcast with comedian Samantha Bee and co-host Joanna Coles. Again, she mocked the correspondents for asking her not to target only one party. “They were like, ‘You need to be equal and make sure that you give it to both sides,’ and I was like, ‘There’s no way I’m going to be freaking doing that,'” she said.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
nationaljournal.com | Erin Durkin |Tom DeFrank
In his formal inaugural address, President Trump tried to strike a more measured tone than he did in his infamously dark speech eight years ago. Yet within an hour, he reverted to form, unleashing a stream-of-consciousness, campaign-style sequel revealing what he really thinks.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
nationaljournal.com | Tom DeFrank |Lauren Green |Philip Athey |Cristina Maza
Washington’s approach to Venezuela could change dramatically after Donald Trump reenters the White House. Some members of the nation’s exiled political opposition are optimistic those changes won’t be for the worse. Rafael de la Cruz, a top representative of the Venezuelan opposition based in the United States, argues that the regime is at its weakest point in the 25 years since Hugo Chavez first won power in 1999.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
nationaljournal.com | Tom DeFrank |Lauren Green |Philip Athey |Cristina Maza
Donald Trump’s resounding victory in the presidential election is raising concerns among analysts and rights advocates that the next administration will give Israel a blank check to seize complete control of Gaza and the West Bank.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
nationaljournal.com | Philip Athey |Casey Wooten |Tom DeFrank
This is the last in a five-day series chronicling Richard Nixon's last week as president in 1974, exactly 50 years ago. As a young correspondent for Newsweek, National Journal’s Tom DeFrank was at the White House from Aug. 5, when damning transcripts of taped Nixon conversations were released by Supreme Court order, until Aug. 9, when Nixon resigned and Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as the 38th president.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
nationaljournal.com | Philip Athey |Casey Wooten |Tom DeFrank
This is the fourth part in a five-day series chronicling Richard Nixon's last week as president in 1974, exactly 50 years ago. As a young correspondent for Newsweek, National Journal’s Tom DeFrank was at the White House from Aug. 5, when damning transcripts of taped Nixon conversations were released by Supreme Court order, until Aug. 9, when Nixon resigned and Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as the 38th president.
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May 30, 2024 | 
nationaljournal.com | Tom DeFrank |Charlie Cook
With his conviction in New York on 34 felony counts, Donald Trump now joins John Tyler in presidential infamy for tarnishing the highest office in the land. Not since Tyler committed treason by joining the Confederacy in an armed rebellion against the United States has any former president—even Richard Nixon—brought more shame on the office he once held. It doesn’t matter if the former president is sentenced to prison.
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May 7, 2024 | 
nationaljournal.com | Tom DeFrank |Taameen Mohammad |Shauna Muckle |Katherine Swartz
Before President Biden’s speech to mark the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Days of Remembrance at the Capitol on Tuesday, critics had warned him not to take a “both sides” approach to antisemitism and pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses. They needn’t have worried. For 16 minutes, his focus was riveted on countering attacks against Jews.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
nationaljournal.com | Tom DeFrank
When President Biden attends the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday night he will face an audience looking for much more than whether his jokes get laughs. Many of the 2,600 inside the ballroom in the Washington Hilton and the thousands watching on television will be trying to get the latest reading on the president’s health and vigor.
