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Musk’s Purges Suddenly Take a Horrific Turn—and Wreck an Ugly MAGA Lie

We can now be depressingly confident that their mass cuts are killing people.

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Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Ugly Turn, Putting Starving Kids at Risk

Two U.S. nonprofits that manufacture a treatment sent by USAID to help severely malnourished children abroad say the process is in chaos. This isn’t what Marco Rubio said would happen.

People walk on the street in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

Melissa Gira Grant

This Shocking Moment at a GOP Town Hall in Idaho Is a Foreboding Sign

Private, unidentified security personnel dragged a woman out of the event. It raises questions not just about tolerance for dissent but about who gets deputized to do what.

TNR Features

A bodega in Reading

This Small Rust-Belt City Holds the Secret to Democrats’ Latino Woes

Politics

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It Keeps Getting Worse—and No One Is Safe

Donald Trump and Elon Musk aren’t just inflicting pain on poor people abroad or imagined “enemies within.” Their parade of cruelty is coming for MAGA country too.

Mostly empty parking lot, stewn with carts at the Home Depot, for feature story about Home Depot store that is open 24 hours. Shopping carts, not cars, take up parking spots in a vacated lot.

Why I’m Not Joining the Economic Blackout Day

There are a lot of effective ways to protest what’s happening to the country. Boycotting everything is not one of them.

Culture

A family of formerly enslaved people outside their house in Fredericksburg, Virginia, circa 1862-1865.

Joshua D. Rothman

The Missing Persons of Reconstruction

Enslaved families were regularly separated. A new history chronicles the tenacious efforts of the emancipated to be reunited with their loved ones.

Mohammed Amer in “Mo” on Netflix

The World According to Mo

The show takes its time to tell the story of a Palestinian refugee living and hustling and falling in love in Texas.

From the Magazine

Donald Trump sitting behind his desk in the Oval Office, surrounded by briefcases of cash and monitors that indicate crypto earnings

Art of the Steal

Jacob Silverman

This Is the Biggest Trump-Musk Scandal That No One’s Talking About

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are ushering in a new age of bribery, graft, and corruption to American politics.

An image of the merged faces of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump

Kim Phillips-Fein

The Dark Legacy of Reaganism

Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein

The Cult of the Entrepreneur

From left: Bob Dylan in 1961; Dave Van Ronk in 1963

Bob Dylan and Me

Podcasts

Donald Trump looks down during his Cabinet meeting

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

Trump Hit by Brutal Poll on Economy as Panicked GOPers Nix Town Halls

With Trump and Republicans facing turbulence over rising prices and Elon Musk’s rampage, a former White House strategist argues that Democrats can capitalize on Trump’s rising vulnerability on the economy.

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

“Terrifying”: Trump’s Ominous Moment with RFK on First Measles Death

As Trump’s first Cabinet meeting offers unsightly displays, a former senior HHS official explains why the Trump-RFK-Musk follies have grown deeply unnerving from a public health perspective.

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Published daily, the TNR Crossword is designed to be quick and addictive—a perfect pastime during all the 30-minute meetings that should have been 30-second group emails.

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The TNR Politics Quiz

Test your knowledge—from the first Black person appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court to the first U.S. president to be impeached.