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The Engines and Empires of New York City Gambling

As plans are laid for a new casino, one can trace, through four figures, a history of rivalry and excess, rife with collisions of character and crime.
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Brave New World Dept.

How to Live Forever and Get Rich Doing It

As researchers work to make death optional, investors see a chance for huge returns. But has the human body already reached its limits?
Portfolio

ICE’s Spectacle of Intimidation

Immigrants showing up for court dates in Manhattan must now navigate past rows of masked federal agents.
Annals of Psychology

The Pain of Perfectionism

It’s the fault people humblebrag about in job interviews. but psychologists are discovering more and more about the real harm it causes.
Letter from Israel

Israel’s Zones of Denial

Amid national euphoria over the bombing of Iran—and the largely ignored devastation in Gaza—a question lurks: What is the country becoming?

Commentary

The Lede

The E.P.A.’s Disastrous Plan to End the Regulation of Greenhouse Gases

With a new proposal, the Trump Administration, which has already laid waste to dozens of programs aimed at limiting climate change, has managed to outdo itself.
Comment

The Politics of Fear

As a Presidential candidate, Donald Trump made his world view plain: there was “us” and there was “them.” Once he was in the White House, the fear factor would prevail.
The Lede

Treating Gaza’s Collective Trauma

In Gaza, where displaced children play a game called “air strike” and act out death, the lack of mental-health resources has become another emergency.
The Lede

Searching for the Children of the Disappeared

A new book examines the extraordinary decades-long campaign by Argentinean women to find their grandchildren.

Conversations

Q. & A.

How the Israeli Right Explains the Aid Disaster It Created

The fiercest defenders of Netanyahu’s war in Gaza continue to insist that Palestinians aren’t starving.
Q. & A.

The Political Motives Behind the Gaza Aid Catastrophe

As Palestinians continue to die of severe hunger, a former Israeli official explains what the latest plan is really meant to achieve.
Q. & A.

Can Trump Deport People to Any Country That Will Take Them?

A Yale Law professor on the Administration’s third-country deportation powers—and why the Supreme Court allowed it to send eight men to a prison in South Sudan.
Q. & A.

The War on Gaza’s Children

Without safe access to food, water, or medical care, survival has become a daily gamble for the region’s youngest residents.

From Our Columnists

The Sporting Scene

What Is Lost in Luka Dončić’s Glow-Up

The rebrand of the Los Angeles Laker—who appeared on the cover of Men’s Health looking lean, buff, and bronze—makes sense. That doesn’t make it less sad.
The Financial Page

Economic Reality Bites Trump and His Protectionist Trade Policies

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.
Fault Lines

Stacks of Cash

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

Donald Trump’s War with Jerome Powell and the Fed Is Far from 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.

More News

Deep State Diaries

When the Federal Government Eats Itself

After six months of DOGE, vital institutions are in disarray as the civil service braces for new cuts.
Letter from Trump’s Washington

On Trump, Gaza, and the Perils of a Blank Check for Israel

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

Is Brazil’s Underdog Era Coming to an End?

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 Lede

Should Police Officers Be More Like U.F.C. Fighters?

Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, has said that he wants to get mixed-martial-arts fighters to train his field agents. But a version of this is already happening, with law-enforcement agencies embracing Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
Comment

What to Do When the Supreme Court Rules the Wrong Way

The blows have been coming weekly, as Trump tries to ransack the Constitution. Yet recent Court history shows that what feels like the end can be a beginning.
Fault Lines

Are the Democrats Getting Better at the Internet?

There’s never been an inherent reason why the Party’s positioning requires so much of its online content to suck.
The Lede

When ICE Agents Are Waiting Outside the Courtroom

An asylum seeker and her children face the terrifying new reality of immigration hearings.
Letter from Trump’s Washington

Trump Redefines the Washington Scandal

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?