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Trump and Musk’s Plan to Destroy Social Security Started Tuesday Night

It starts with cutting staff at the Social Security Administration. That will sow confusion. Then it builds from there.

Editor’s Picks

Donald Trump makes a smug face while standing at a presidential podium. A U.S. flag is in the backround.

Trump’s Rage Over “Low” Deportations Suddenly Gets More Unnerving

A new DOJ memo argues that immigration judges can be stripped of civil service protections. That could lay the groundwork for firing them if they don’t rule the “right” way.

Donald Trump in the White House

How Did America Not See This Apocalypse Coming?

Trump is doing what he promised on the campaign trail: wreaking economic havoc on America and destroying the rules-based international order. Voters chose him anyway.

TNR Features

Sherrod Brown and UAW members

Democrats Must Become the Workers’ Party Again

Politics

The Supreme Court’s Rebuff of Trump Is More Ominous Than It Looks

Two conservative justices joined the three liberals in ordering the administration to pay USAID contractors who are owed around $2 billion. But can that unlikely split hold?

Donald Trump holds a cabinet meeting at the White House.

How Trump Sold America Out to His Kleptocratic Friends

While the American people get saddled with the staggering cost of his trade war, the president has given the world’s worst actors the license to misbehave.

Culture

Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at Mar-a-Lago.

The Right is Hell-Bent on Weaponizing Libel Law

A 1964 Supreme Court decision affords the press strong protections against costly defamation lawsuits. That’s why a dangerous new movement is trying to overturn it.

Palantir’s Alex Karp arrives at the Senate bipartisan AI Insight Forum in Washington, D.C. in 2023.

Alex Karp’s War for the West

In “The Technological Republic,” the Palantir CEO exhorts Silicon Valley to embrace techno-militarism in the service of furthering American global supremacy.

From the Magazine

A utopian city could be achieved, if we can only get past the bottlenecks that are preventing it from happening. A pair of tweezers reaching through a bottle's opening to build that city evokes those difficulties.

Building Blocks

Julian E. Zelizer

An “Abundance Agenda” for Government Is the Anti-DOGE

Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s progressive vision for how to make government great again

Donald Trump Is a Fake Populist

Leslie Bibb, Michelle Monaghan and Carrie Coon in "The White Lotus."

The Perverse Reason We Can’t Resist The White Lotus

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

Jacob Silverman

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

The Daily Blast Podcast

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

Trump Press Sec Accidentally Blurts Out Real Goal of His Tariff Scam

As press secretary Karoline Leavitt says the quiet part out loud about Trump’s tariffs, a reporter who covers Trumpworld explains why his vile bullying of our allies should be taken a lot more seriously.

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

Trudeau’s Blistering Takedown of Trump’s Tariffs Puts GOP to Shame

As Canada’s Justin Trudeau offers an emotional rebuke of Trump’s tariffs, columnist E.J. Dionne reflects on the awful position Trump has created for Republicans, who will never say what Trudeau did.

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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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Who Said It: Veep’s Jonah Ryan or JD Vance?

One is a fictional politician who everyone hates. The other is a real politician who everyone hates. Can you tell them apart?