The Lede
Reporting and commentary on what you need to know today.
The Trump Show Comes to the Kennedy Center
Can the fifty-four-year-old arts hub weather the next four years?
The Other Side of Signalgate
The Trump Administration’s extraordinary security breach has elicited shock, amusement, and anger. An eyewitness in Yemen describes what happened when the bombs started to fall.
At the Smithsonian, Donald Trump Takes Aim at History
The urge to police the past is hardly an invention of the Trump Administration. It is the reflexive obsession of autocrats everywhere.
Has Trump’s Legal Strategy Backfired?
Federal judges do not take well to being lied to or treated, as one put it, like idiots.
The “Snow White” Controversy, Like Our Zeitgeist, Is Both Stupid and Sinister
Placing the failure of the live-action remake largely at Rachel Zegler’s feet is almost perversely flattering to her.
Fighting Elon Musk, One Tesla Dealership at a Time
“It’s ironic that, as a pro-democracy and pro-climate group, we’re protesting against electric cars,” one activist said. “But you cannot sacrifice our democracy for one piece of the thing.”
Why Is Elon Musk Trying to Buy a Wisconsin Supreme Court Seat?
Tuesday’s election, as the only statewide race in the country before November, is a crucial test for the growing backlash against the Trump Administration’s agenda.
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Why Benjamin Netanyahu Is Going Back to War
The public’s fears for the fate of the ceasefire and the hostages have become a struggle over the rule of law.
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?
How John Roberts Has Empowered a Lawless Presidency
The Chief Justice’s rebuke of Donald Trump over his calls to impeach judges obscures Roberts’s own role in fostering the destruction in Washington.