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Ten Years Applying Psychological Science Inside the U.K. Government

APS President James Pennebaker's fourth presidential column features Carla Groom, who discusses her training in psychological science to bring about real changes in the British gov...

Stream of Consciousness Truthing

Yet more gems from the Commander-in-Chief.

What Occupies The President’s Mind?

More than any of his predecessors, we know in real time.

Trump’s 2026 State of the Union: Psychological & Rhetorical Analysis of Influence Techniques

A systematic psychological and rhetorical analysis of Trump's February 2026 State of the Union address, examining personality patterns, cognitive framing, victim testimony as persu...

Trump at Lincoln Memorial: Psychological & Rhetorical Analysis

Trump's May 7, 2026 press gaggle at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was billed as a renovation tour. This analysis reveals the psychological and rhetorical patterns beneath th...

A Failed President and His Edifice Complex

Political Psychology & Rhetorical Analysis: VP J.D. Vance in Des Moines, Iowa

VP J.D. Vance's May 5, 2026 Iowa rally speech reveals a controlled communicator running a disciplined influence architecture. This two-track analysis decodes his psychological sign...

Trump Cabinet Meeting May 2026: Psychological & Rhetorical Analysis

At his 12th cabinet meeting, Trump deployed a textbook fear-then-resolution cycle, blanket ethnic criminalization, and mathematical impossibilities presented as policy achievements...

From Campaign Promises to Governing Reality: How Power Actually Shapes U.S. Presidents

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The Squeeze

Trump Iran War Rhetoric: Psychological Analysis — May 2026

Before boarding Marine One for his Asia trip, Trump fielded questions on Iran, inflation, and China — and insulted two reporters on camera. This two-track analysis decodes the psyc...

King Charles III Congress Speech: Rhetorical & Psychological Analysis

King Charles III's 2026 address to Congress is a masterwork of diplomatic statecraft — but what makes it work psychologically? This two-track analysis decodes the persuasion archit...

Word Wrangler: May 11, 2026

Which Texan had the most influence on the state, nation, or world? Here are ten candidates.

Trump’s Coast Guard Commencement: Rhetorical Analysis

Trump's May 2026 commencement address at the US Coast Guard Academy was nominally a celebration of graduating officers. This two-track analysis reveals how the speech's psychologic...

Trump Small Business Summit: Psychological & Rhetorical Analysis

A two-track psychological and rhetorical analysis of Trump's May 2026 Small Business Summit remarks — a speech that pivoted from tax cuts to Iran's destroyed navy. What the transcr...

Pulitzer Prize winner shares historic nature of politics as U.S. celebrates 250th anniversary

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham discussed the nature of American politics through pivotal moments in U.S. history. Meacham said t...

Jimmy Carter: The Death and Legacy of a Distant Friend

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A Window Into the President’s Mind

“Monday was a typical day for President Trump. He took questions in the Oval Office. He met with members of Indiana University’s football team. And he had dinner with law-enforceme...

Correspondents' Dinner's biggest moments involve laughs, cringing and high-stakes politics

The White House Correspondents’ Dinner has had multiple iterations since it began a few years after World War I. Washington’s premier soiree on Saturday is most identified by i...

Writing the Trump Years Into History

How do you bring an American-history textbook up to date when the country's past has become a political battleground?

Strait Numbers

Versus strait rhetoric.

Marksmanship Wasn't the Only Security Problem at WHCD

This column is about the relation between rhetoric and reality, with special reference to political violence and security.

Back When the Pulitzer Meant Something

In the years before winning the Pulitzer became an exercise in ideological performance, writers like Jimmy Breslin captured the nation's soul, writes Liel Leibovitz.

The Loneliness of Donald Trump

This is a president who rarely travels beyond the confines of the White House compound or Mar-a-Lago.