Colin Jones on 04/25/2025 C Colin Jones
What’s Legally Allowed in War
How U.S. military lawyers see Israel’s invasion of Gaza—and the public’s reaction to it—as a dress rehearsal for a potential conflict with a foreign power like China.
Stephania Taladrid on 04/21/2025 S Stephania Taladrid
The Mexican President Who’s Facing Off with Trump
Can Claudia Sheinbaum manage the demands from D.C.—and her own country’s fragile democracy?
Antonia Hitchens on 04/21/2025 A Antonia Hitchens
How Trump Worship Took Hold in Washington
The President is at the center of a brazenly transactional ecosystem that rewards flattery and lockstep loyalty.
David Owen on 04/21/2025 D David Owen
Subtitling Your Life
Hearing aids and cochlear implants have been getting better for years, but a new type of device—eyeglasses that display real-time speech transcription on their lenses—is a game-changing breakthrough.
Clayton Dalton on 04/18/2025 C Clayton Dalton
The Last Hospitals in Gaza
Doctors are delivering lifesaving care in a ravaged health-care system—and risking their own lives in the process.
Helen Shaw on 04/25/2025 H Helen Shaw
The Show Can’t Go On
Funding shifts at three of the largest philanthropic foundations have brought turbulence and uncertainty to the intricate New York support system for the performing arts.
Anna Russell on 04/24/2025 A Anna Russell
The Guerrilla Marketing Campaign Against Elon Musk
As Tesla’s profits drop, a group called Everyone Hates Elon is going viral for plastering London with fake advertisements for the company, infiltrating a car showroom, and inviting the public to trash a Model S.
Jack Herrera on 04/23/2025 J Jack Herrera
The Immigrant Families Jailed in Texas
Children have long been put in migrant detention if they were apprehended at the border. Today, lawyers have found, families are being removed from stable lives in the United States.
Graciela Mochkofsky on 04/22/2025 G Graciela Mochkofsky
Pope Francis’s Tangled Relationship with Argentina
Amid the extreme political polarization in his home country, the Pope found himself at odds with nearly every President.
Isaac Chotiner on 04/22/2025 I Isaac Chotiner
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.
Isaac Chotiner on 04/17/2025 I Isaac Chotiner
China’s Plan to Fight Trump’s Trade War
A professor at M.I.T. on how Xi Jinping is likely to respond to U.S. tariffs and why the standoff won’t weaken the Chinese Communist Party’s grip on power.
Isaac Chotiner on 04/15/2025 I Isaac Chotiner
How the Supreme Court Misunderstands Donald Trump
A legal scholar argues that the judiciary’s “passive-aggressive approach” to the Trump Administration is doomed to fail.
Isaac Chotiner on 04/10/2025 I Isaac Chotiner
How Trump’s Tariffs Fit the Autocrat’s Playbook
The President thrives on confrontation and demands supplication. Politicizing the economy creates opportunities for both.
John Cassidy on 04/21/2025 J John Cassidy
Why Harvard Can Afford to Stand Up to Donald Trump
The university’s $53.2-billion endowment has positioned it to resist the bullying tactics of an increasingly authoritarian President.
Hanif Abdurraqib on 04/13/2025 H Hanif Abdurraqib
The Face of the Devastated Sports Fan
There are classic moments in this subgenre of deflated fandom that you may have seen before, even if you do not love or pay much attention to sports.
John Cassidy on 04/11/2025 J John Cassidy
Elizabeth Warren Is Trying to Stop “The Dumbest Financial Crisis Ever”
The Massachusetts Democrat argues that Trumponomics is wrecking the American economy.
John Cassidy on 04/07/2025 J John Cassidy
How Donald Trump Crushed the Stock Market
The President’s tariff policy isn’t strategic protectionism; it’s economic self-harm.
Ruth Marcus on 04/25/2025 R Ruth Marcus
The Conservative Lawyer Defending a Firm from Donald Trump
Paul Clement complained that Big Law was becoming “increasingly woke.” Now he’s defending one firm’s right to do just that.
Susan B. Glasser on 04/25/2025 S Susan B. Glasser
Where Are Trump’s Big, Beautiful Deals?
Whether a trade pact with China or a peace accord with Russia, the President doesn’t seem to know what he’s actually asking for, never mind how to actually achieve it.
E. Tammy Kim on 04/22/2025 E E. Tammy Kim
What “America First” Could Cost Us
As the Trump Administration forces the U.S. to retreat from labor-protection programs abroad, American workers might end up suffering, too.
Ruth Marcus on 04/21/2025 R Ruth Marcus
The Supreme Court Finally Takes On Trump
In an overnight ruling, the Justices defended the rule of law. Will their toughness last?
Atul Gawande on 04/21/2025 A Atul Gawande
The Cost of Defunding Harvard
If you or someone you love has cancer, cardiovascular disease, dementia, Parkinson’s disease, or diabetes, you have likely benefitted from the university’s federally funded discoveries in care and treatment.
Paul Elie on 04/21/2025 P Paul Elie
The Down-to-Earth Pope: Pope Francis Has Died at Eighty-eight
In a historic moment characterized by autocrats and would-be autocrats, Francis was the antithesis of a strongman.
Jonathan Blitzer on 04/20/2025 J Jonathan Blitzer
Donald Trump’s Deportation Obsession
Right-wing ideologues have long fantasized about the prospect of mass self-deportation: the Trump Administration is attempting something far more radical.