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Pete Hegseth Is Bringing His Wife and Brother to Work

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth isn’t just accidentally group chatting with a magazine editor about upcoming airstrikes, he’s bringing his family...

yesterday 30

Chas Danner

2025 Elections Begin With Big Throwdown in Wisconsin

Both parties have plenty of reasons to look forward to next year’s midterm elections. Republicans can test out the MAGA hypothesis that Donald...

yesterday 6

Ed Kilgore

‘Trump Knows a Good Grift When He Sees One’

With an unelected billionaire taking a wrecking ball to the administrative state and the president’s Cabinet giving away national secrets, it can...

yesterday 6

Matt Stieb

The Great 21st-Century Treasure Hunt

yesterday 0

Benjamin Wallace

Trump’s Team Believes He Is an Elected Dictator

There’s understandably a lot of talk in the air about significant numbers of 2024 Trump voters feeling some buyer’s remorse as the 47th president’s...

previous day 2

Ed Kilgore

Elise Stefanik Is ‘Proud’ to Have Dream Crushed by Trump

Over the past nine years, Elise Stefanik transformed herself from a Donald Trump critic into one of the president’s biggest cheerleaders. Her...

previous day 0

Margaret Hartmann

Trump’s Childhood Home Just Sold at a Huge Loss

After years on the market, Donald Trump’s childhood home finally sold — at a significant loss. The Tudor-style five-bedroom, in a nice slice of...

previous day 10

Adriane Quinlan And Matthew Sedacca

Trump Is Redefining Terrorism

On Monday, the FBI announced a new task force to crack down on what Elon Musk has described as “evil attacks” against Tesla vehicles and...

previous day 2

Zak Cheney-Rice

The Confessions of Health-Insurance Executives

They call him an opportunist and a vulture who’s capitalizing on a tragedy to promote his dangerous Medicare for All agenda. Over and over, they...

previous day 3

Chris Stanton

The Pro-Israel Group That Led to Rumeysa Ozturk’s Arrest

Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old Tufts University doctoral student, was leaving her apartment in Somerville, Massachusetts, on Tuesday to join friends...

previous day 20

Nia Prater

The Man Who Went to Fake Prison Also Went to Real Jail

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Last October, William...

thursday 2

Matt Stieb

It Really Sucks to Be Elise Stefanik Right Now

You have to figure Elise Stefanik has been getting pretty antsy lately. She announced way back on November 10 — so long ago that DOGE was just an...

thursday 30

Ed Kilgore

American Universities Need Wartime Leaders

If the capitulation of Columbia University to President Donald Trump was, in retrospect, inevitable, it was still among the darker moments in the...

thursday 10

Ross Barkan

What Is Going On With Trump’s Auto Tariffs?

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced the latest in his ongoing volley of tariffs, levying a 25 percent tax on all automobiles and car...

thursday 3

Nia Prater And Chas Danner

Is Baseball Without Umpires Still Even Baseball?

The one constant through the years, James Earl Jones famously said as he stood in the middle of a cornfield, has been baseball. And as long as...

thursday 20

Adam Elder

The Newspaper Flourishing Without a Paywall

There was a time in media when having a billionaire owner was an asset. For many outlets, this is still the case, particularly those publishing...

thursday 2

Charlotte Klein

Boebert’s Big Idea: Renaming D.C. the ‘District of America’

Just when you thought jingoistic gestures couldn’t get much dumber than Trump’s designs on Canada and Greenland, Colorado congresswoman Lauren...

26.03.2025 9

Ed Kilgore

Trump’s Latest Power Grab Aims at the Ballot Box

It’s a bit of a surprise that it’s taken Donald Trump over two months in office to extend his broad-based campaign of presidential power grabs into...

26.03.2025 3