Donald Trump
Reporting and commentary on the forty-fifth and forty-seventh President.
The Lede
The Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge
Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from *DOGE*{: .small}?
Letter from Trump’s Washington
Uncertainty Is Trump’s Brand. But What if He Already Told Us Exactly What He’s Going to Do?
“Tariff Man” is gonna tariff—and other lessons from the predictably unpredictable President’s return to power.
Q. & A.
Mahmoud Khalil’s Constitutional Rights and the Power of ICE
A legal scholar explains the unusual justification for the Columbia graduate’s arrest, and what it could augur for immigration enforcement in Trump’s second term.
The Lede
Trump Is Still Trying to Undermine Elections
Now that Trump has installed election deniers throughout his Administration, he has been busy dismantling the guardrails protecting voting and voters.
The Lede
Ruben Gallego Thinks Liberals Shouldn’t Panic
The new Arizona senator argues that Donald Trump’s agenda is largely popular but destined to fail.
The Lede
Who Gets to Determine Greenland’s Future?
Trump’s comments about purchasing the island sent shock waves through the Danish territory, and enlivened its independence movement.
Deep State Diaries
Inside the DOGE Threat to Social Security
A day in the life of a claims rep for America’s largest government program.
The Lede
What’s Next for Ukraine?
The war’s underlying logic has been flipped on its head since the White House meeting between Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump.
The Political Scene Podcast
America’s Founders Feared a Caesar. Has One Arrived?
Julius Caesar pressured the Senate, won popular support by fomenting class warfare, and sported a combover. The constitutional scholar Jeffrey Rosen discusses the parallels.
Fault Lines
Can Americans Still Be Convinced That Principle Is Worth Fighting For?
The limits of rhetoric in Ukraine.
The Lede
Canada, the Northern Outpost of Sanity
Justin Trudeau, in his final week as Prime Minister, tells Donald Trump to shove it.
Infinite Scroll
Donald Trump’s A.I. Propaganda
Artificially generated videos of Gaza as a beach resort and of migrant detention as A.S.M.R. are creating a digital mirror world of the future as Trump imagines it.
The Lede
Trump’s Golden Age of Bunk
In a Castro-length speech to Congress, the President claimed victory, while proving that even the most unhinged address can be boring if it goes on long enough.
Q. & A.
What Putin Wants Now
Trump has suspended all military aid to Ukraine in an apparent attempt to bring the country to the negotiating table. But does Russia need to negotiate?
Deep State Diaries
“We Are Considering You as Being Terminated”
Zain Shirazi, inspired by his family’s experience of post-9/11 racism, has been fighting workplace harassment for the federal government. The Trump Administration fired him.
Q. & A.
How Democrats Lost Their Way on Immigration
Untangling the realities from the rhetoric on an issue that has transformed politics across the West.
The Political Scene Podcast
Trump’s Putin-Like Cull of the White House Press Pool
“It's something that is at the top of the authoritarian playbook list,” the staff writer Susan B. Glasser says. “You know, go after the independent press.”
Fault Lines
What Will Democratic Resistance Look Like?
Amid the internal crisis of the Democratic Party, historical precedents can both inform and obscure our understanding of how the left might regroup.
The Lede
A Ukrainian Family’s Three Years of War
Mykola Hryhoryan was on the front lines before being gravely injured. Now, with American support in question and the country’s troops depleted, he’s preparing for the possibility of going back.
The Lede
Trump’s E.P.A. Seeks to Deny Science That Americans Discovered
It’s in this country that scientists, funded by or working for the government, came to understand the role of carbon in our atmosphere.