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OUT IN THE OPEN

Trump’s Embrace of White South Africans Takes Dark, Unnerving New Turn

First, Trump officials cut off refugee resettlement from all over the world. Then they got those white Afrikaners here in three months. Funny how that happened.

Throw Away The Key

Donald Trump points and speaks while sitting in the Oval Office

Let’s Start Talking About Jail Time for Trump and His MAGA Enablers

Donald Trump points and speaks while sitting in the Oval Office

Throw Away The Key

Let’s Start Talking About Jail Time for Trump and His MAGA Enablers

Trump’s All-Out Culture War Is Now Targeting Philanthropy

Trump’s All-Out Culture War Is Now Targeting Philanthropy

Donald Trump speaks during a press conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House.

Trump’s All-Out Culture War Is Now Targeting Philanthropy

Donald Trump speaks during a press conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House.

Trump’s All-Out Culture War Is Now Targeting Philanthropy

Americans Like Medicaid—But They Also Like Work Requirements

Americans Like Medicaid—But They Also Like Work Requirements

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer

Americans Like Medicaid—But They Also Like Work Requirements

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer

Americans Like Medicaid—But They Also Like Work Requirements

Trump’s Swamp Just Got a Whole Lot Bigger and Swampier

Michael Tomasky

Michael Tomasky

Trump’s Swamp Just Got a Whole Lot Bigger and Swampier

Trump dance

Trump’s Swamp Just Got a Whole Lot Bigger and Swampier

Michael Tomasky

Trump dance

Michael Tomasky

Trump’s Swamp Just Got a Whole Lot Bigger and Swampier

SNAP Crackle Pop

House Republicans Want to Force States to Cut SNAP for Them

SNAP Crackle Pop

House Republicans Want to Force States to Cut SNAP for Them

SNAP Crackle Pop

House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries strolls by a sign protesting proposed cuts to SNAP benefits that are part of the House GOP’s budget reconciliation bill.

House Republicans Want to Force States to Cut SNAP for Them

House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries strolls by a sign protesting proposed cuts to SNAP benefits that are part of the House GOP’s budget reconciliation bill.

SNAP Crackle Pop

House Republicans Want to Force States to Cut SNAP for Them

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Who Said It: Homer Simpson or Pete Hegseth?

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Collage of Homer Simpson and Pete Hegseth

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Who Said It: Homer Simpson or Pete Hegseth?

Editor’s Picks

Massachusetts Atorney General Andrea Campbell speaks to the press outside the US Supreme Court over President Donald Trump’s move to end birthright citizenship as the court hears arguments over the order in Washington, D.C.

Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Case Has the Supreme Court Baffled

The Trump administration’s brief against the Fourteenth Amendment is a bad one, and it naturally led to some tortured legal reasoning from his solicitor general.

Illustration of a baby surrounded by menacing images of pills and a baby powder container. Imagery from vintage J&J ads is also included to suggest that the issues with the company have been happening for decades.

Alexander Zaitchik

A Devastating New Exposé of Johnson & Johnson Indicts an Entire System

An investigative history of the scandal-plagued company shines a light on a health care industry riddled with corruption and criminality.

TNR Features

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Northern Fights

Christopher Hooks

Real Men Steal Countries: Inside Trump’s Absurd Greenland Obsession

Politics

Congestion Relief Zone toll sign on the westbound Long Island Expressway approaching Van Dam Street in Queens, New York.

New York Democrats Are Sabotaging Their Biggest Policy Success

The fight over congestion pricing in New York City illuminates the party’s struggle to define and defend a positive vision.

Donald Trump in Qatar on Thursday

Trump Is Doing a Good Job of Making Biden Look Bad

The president’s Middle East romp is defying the rules at every turn. If only his predecessor had shown the same courage.

Culture

Zhao Tao in Jia Zhangke’s “Caught by the Tides”

Jia Zhangke’s Caught by the Tides Is an Epic of Loss and Perseverance

The filmmaker’s tale of modern China probes the emotional toll of living through two decades of social upheaval.

A pregnant woman holds a cell phone displaying a screen from the Clue health app.

My Digital Pregnancy

In a smart, well-observed memoir, a longtime reporter on internet culture explores how childbearing has become inescapably mediated by technology.

From the Magazine

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The Inspiring Hacktivist Ethos of an Indian Art Studio

CAMP, a Mumbai-based collaborative, makes use of cellphone videos, CCTV, and pirate radio, turning tech to subversive ends.

A person wears a yarmulke with a Make American Great Again slogan

The Coming Jewish Civil War Over Donald Trump

Seth Rogen in a scene from The Studio

Seth Rogen’s The Studio Isn’t Just a Celebration of Hollywood’s Past

An illustration of Trump vacuuming the names off of a sheet of voter rolls, indicating the GOP's efforts to disenfranchise Democratic voters

Republicans Are Already Plotting to Steal the Midterms

The Daily Blast Podcast

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

Trump Rages Over Qatar Jet Fiasco as GOP Angst Worsens: “Humiliating”

As Trump seethes over criticism of his acceptance of a luxury jet from Qatar, a journalist who’s closely tracking GOP reactions explains why this is a growing problem for him—and what may come next.

Donald Trump smiles while sitting in the Oval Office

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

MAGA Senator’s Stunning Admission: GOP Is Badly Screwing Trump Voters

As a staunch Trump ally openly acknowledges the truth about the House GOP’s “big, beautiful bill,” a leading health care reporter explains all the ways it will seriously hurt the Trump-MAGA working-class base.

Games & Quizzes

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Play Our Daily Crossword Puzzle

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?