Donald Trump

The White House promised that tariffs would make America boom. But job growth has stalled and the President has been reduced to firing an official scorekeeper.

Presidential libraries preserve the records—and burnish the legacies—of America’s heads of state. Are they also corruption rackets?

After six months of DOGE, vital institutions are in disarray as the civil service braces for new cuts.

Is the President flip-flopping on Israel's war, or just muddling through?

The former Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood, Jr., says the Administration’s attacks on late-night comedy are a game of “stupid whack-a-mole.”

President Donald Trump has announced a fifty-per-cent tariff on the country’s products, as retaliation for the prosecution of his political ally, Jair Bolsonaro. So far, Brazil has refused to roll over.

The President’s campaign to bend the independent central bank to his will is straight out of the playbook of populist strongmen and will likely go on for years.

For those in Silicon Valley who play by the President’s rules, it’s “open season.”

The new season première goes after Trump as never before—and solves a problem that’s plagued comedians since his first term in office.

Elected in part on a promise to address the housing crisis, Bass faces a different crisis: a federal “seizure” of Los Angeles, and an Administration fixated on mass deportation.

In a Presidency where everything is an outrage, what does it say that MAGA’s revolt over the Jeffrey Epstein files is the one crisis that really might hurt him?

The willingness of both political parties to use rhetoric of paranoia about the Jeffrey Epstein files illustrates how intertwined our politics have become with conspiracy theories.

The city’s Mexican consul is trying to protect local immigrants, but there are limits to what he can accomplish.

“I think the Supreme Court, in particular, has proven that it is really fine with a lot of what the Administration is doing, and that they are basically willing to bend over backwards and ignore their own rules and procedures to allow the Administration to do what it wants,” Litman says.

The journalist talks about his interviews with the infamous abuser, and the political fallout from the White House’s attempt to close his case.

The school has attracted attention for its refusal to join the higher-ed resistance and, perhaps not coincidentally, for its avoidance of any direct sanctions by the Trump Administration.

Distracted by the President’s constant bashing of his predecessor? Of course not.

The stock market’s record-setting run suggests Wall Street isn’t taking Donald Trump’s tariffs and threats seriously—but they are already harming the economy.

Cuts to federal health-care spending make it harder for doctors to make the oldest promise in medicine: that we will do no harm.

The New Yorker staff writer explains the political implications of Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.”