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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?
The Financial Page

How Donald Trump Crushed the Stock Market

The President’s tariff policy isn’t strategic protectionism; it’s economic self-harm.
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.
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?
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.
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.
The Lede

The Fears of the Undocumented

In Chicago, families are preparing for the possibility of being separated by deportations.
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.
The Lede

Trump’s Cabinet Picks Go to Washington

What does parading nominees around Capitol Hill before their confirmation hearings actually accomplish?
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.
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.
Letter from Trump’s Washington

The Most Extreme Cabinet Ever

Trump’s “God-tier level trolling” of America has already begun.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.