Trump Administration
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.
By Elizabeth Kolbert
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.
By Isaac Chotiner
The Lede
Is There Still Time to Be Hopeful About the Climate?
Scientists have long insisted that we can and must limit global warming to 1.5 degrees—and some still do, even as that grim milestone nears.
By Daniel A. Gross
The Lede
The Grim State of Trans Health Care
With the “Big Beautiful Bill” in flux, and federal funds for gender-affirming care hanging in the balance, protections for trans children and adults continue to be dismantled at the state level.
By Grace Byron
The Lede
How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation
As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.
By Alistair Kitchen
The Lede
The Astonishing Threat to Suspend Habeas Corpus
The Trump Administration is stepping up its war on the rule of law. Is this bluster aimed at intimidating judges, or the start of something worse?
By Ruth Marcus
Q. & A.
The Biden Official Who Doesn’t Oppose Trump’s Student Deportations
Why the Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt blames universities for “opening the door” to the Trump Administration’s professed campaign to tackle antisemitism.
By Isaac Chotiner
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