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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.