Donald Trump
Reporting and commentary on the forty-fifth and forty-seventh President.
The Lede
The Trump Show Comes to the Kennedy Center
Can the fifty-four-year-old arts hub weather the next four years?
By Katy Waldman
The Political Scene Podcast
Trump Finally Gets His Way on Tariffs
With a single act, the President has upended the entire global economic order.
The Lede
Has Trump’s Legal Strategy Backfired?
Federal judges do not take well to being lied to or treated, as one put it, like idiots.
By Ruth Marcus
Letter from Trump’s Washington
Donald Trump’s Ego Melts the Global Economy
On a chilly Wednesday afternoon, the President announced he would single-handedly blow up a century’s worth of globalization.
By Susan B. Glasser
The Financial Page
The Truth About Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day”
The President’s one-man trade war was already hurting the economy. His expansive new tariffs will make things worse.
By John Cassidy
Q. & A.
How Donald Trump Is Teaching Christians to Abandon Empathy
The head of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary says that empathy is “used politically in ways that are very destructive and manipulative.”
By Isaac Chotiner
Annals of Immigration
The Makeup Artist Donald Trump Deported Under the Alien Enemies Act
The President has invoked the law to send Venezuelans to prison in El Salvador without due process—and, in many cases, under false pretenses.
By Jonathan Blitzer
Cover Story
Barry Blitt’s “Left to Their Own Devices”
The Trump Administration’s not-so-classified group chat.
By Françoise Mouly
Letter from Trump’s Washington
Will Trump’s Gulf of America Power Trip Break the White House Press Corps?
The Associated Press had its day in court on Thursday, but free speech in this Presidency is already a big loser.
By Susan B. Glasser
The Lede
How Donald Trump Throttled Big Law
The President has two goals: to seek revenge and to intimidate lawyers challenging his agenda. Is a top firm’s deal with him a necessary act of survival or a damaging blow to the entire profession?
By Ruth Marcus
Comment
The Greater Scandal of Signalgate
The spectacle of incompetence and the attempts to smear a reporter are a misery; even worse is the encroaching threat of autocracy that cannot be concealed or encrypted.
By David Remnick
Infinite Scroll
Resisting Trump 2.0 with Brain-Rot Memes
We participate in political memes to express our anxiety that whatever is coming next might be even more chaotic than what is already happening.
By Kyle Chayka
Q. & A.
Is Turkey’s Declining Democracy a Model for Trump’s America?
After purging the judiciary, cracking down on the media, and jailing political opponents, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan faces protests on a scale not seen in a decade.
By Isaac Chotiner
Deep State Diaries
The Government’s Rock Librarian
Her work was so quiet and fundamental—to academia and industry, all over the world—that she believed her job would be safe.
By E. Tammy Kim
The Lede
Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Fight the Oligarchy
In Arizona, a crowd of thousands suggested that the left still has a pulse.
By Emily Witt
The Financial Page
Don’t Believe Trump’s Promises About Protecting the Social Safety Net
The Social Security Administration is shuttering offices, and the Republicans’ own math suggests that they are planning big cuts to Medicaid and SNAP.
By John Cassidy
The Political Scene Podcast
Will Judges Stick Together to Face Trump’s Defiance?
“If they don’t stand up to Trump right now on this kind of power grab, then the pretenses of what the courts are for will be really exposed,” Michael Waldman, the C.E.O. of the Brennan Center for Justice, says.
The Lede
Trump’s Vivisection of the Department of Education
The President cannot legally shut down a government agency, but his Administration could make it essentially impossible for the D.O.E. to function.
By Jessica Winter
Letter from Trump’s Washington
Donald Trump, Producer-in-Chief
What does it mean to have a President who views his time in office as the biggest, bestest Andrew Lloyd Webber theatrical ever?
By Susan B. Glasser
The Lede
The Trump Administration Nears Open Defiance of the Courts
In its conflict with a federal judge, the Justice Department claims to be complying with his orders while provoking a constitutional crisis.
By Ruth Marcus