Trump Administration
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 Financial Page
How Donald Trump Crushed the Stock Market
The President’s tariff policy isn’t strategic protectionism; it’s economic self-harm.
By John Cassidy
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, 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
Deep State Diaries
Killing the Military’s Consumer Watchdog
A unit inside the C.F.P.B. protects servicemembers and veterans from financial scams. The Trump Administration has tried to stop it.
By E. Tammy Kim
The Lede
The Fears of the Undocumented
In Chicago, families are preparing for the possibility of being separated by deportations.
By Geraldo Cadava
The Lede
How Sheriffs Might Power Trump’s Deportation Machine
To carry out the new Administration’s immigration agenda, the “border czar” is counting on the enthusiasm of local law enforcement.
By Jessica Pishko
The Lede
Trump’s Cabinet Picks Go to Washington
What does parading nominees around Capitol Hill before their confirmation hearings actually accomplish?
By Antonia Hitchens
The Financial Page
How Long Will the Trump Crypto Boom Last?
As a pro-crypto Administration prepares to take power and crypto investors cheer, there are some parallels with the dot-com boom of the late nineties.
By John Cassidy
Dispatch
Donald Trump’s Administration Hopefuls Descend on Mar-a-Lago
Since Election Day, the Florida club has played host to a rotating cast of characters from MAGA world, all vying for positions of power.
By Antonia Hitchens
Letter from Trump’s Washington
The Most Extreme Cabinet Ever
Trump’s “God-tier level trolling” of America has already begun.
By Susan B. Glasser
Page-Turner
“Do I Have to Come Here Injured or Dead?”
Keldy Mabel Gonzáles Brebe de Zúniga was one of the first mothers separated from her children at the border by the Trump Administration. The cruelty she suffered in the United States was matched only by what she was forced to flee in Honduras.
By Jonathan Blitzer
Q. & A.
How Trump Compares with Presidents Who Burned Their Papers
The Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore sees historic parallels—as well as willful and unprecedented behavior by the freshly indicted ex-President.
By Tyler Foggatt
News Desk
An Abandoned American Hostage Finally Makes It Home
After more than two years of neglect by the Trump and Biden Administrations, Mark Frerichs describes how he survived Taliban captivity in Afghanistan.
By Michael Ames
A Critic at Large
What the January 6th Report Is Missing
The investigative committee singles out Trump for his role in the Capitol attack. As prosecution, the report is thorough. But as historical explanation it’s a mess.
By Jill Lepore
Comment
What Donald Trump’s Trial Might Look Like
Presidents have been impeached, but none has ever been asked, after leaving office, to turn himself in for arraignment. The January 6th committee’s final actions could help change that.
By Amy Davidson Sorkin
Daily Comment
The Latest Political Humiliation for Donald Trump
The decision by the January 6th committee to recommend criminal prosecution for the former President is unprecedented in American history.
By David Rohde
A Reporter at Large
The Shoddy Conclusions of the Man Shaping the Gun-Rights Debate
John Lott is the most influential pro-gun researcher in the country. But his methods and findings have been repeatedly debunked.
By Mike Spies
Q. & A.
The Two-Pronged Test That Could Put Trump in Prison
As the January 6th hearings unfold, a former U.S. Attorney discusses the possibility of criminally prosecuting the former President.
By Isaac Chotiner