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Trump Truly Is the Greatest President of All Time (at Being Corrupt)

Trump’s brazen use of the White House to advance his family businesses should be one of the biggest scandals in the country’s history.

Editor’s Picks

Angry Trump Kills “Woke” Program—and Accidentally Screws MAGA Voters

It’s called the Digital Equity Act. That word—“equity”—caught the White House’s attention. So now Trump is moving to nix funding—but it could cut off millions destined for red America.

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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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The Coming Jewish Civil War Over Donald Trump

Culture

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My Digital Pregnancy

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

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Whatever Happened to the Power Elite?

The trio of interests atop business, military, and government depicted in C. Wright Mills’s postwar critique is no longer united in setting the national agenda.

From the Magazine

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

The new Apple TV+ show about a compromised movie executive is also, more subtly, an ode to a bygone era of prestige TV.

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

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Michael Lewis’s Paean to Federal Workers Hits Differently Under DOGE

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Inside Trump’s Bizarre Campaign to Bend the Art World to His Will

The Daily Blast Podcast

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

Jamie Raskin’s Harsh Takedown of Trump’s Qatar Plane Scam Draws Blood

As Trump corruptly accepts a $400 million luxury jet as a gift from Qatar, Representative Jamie Raskin explains why this is an “outrageous abuse” of the Constitution—and what Democrats will do now.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt in Washington, D.C., on April 29, 2025.

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

Trump Press Sec’s Fawning Over Him to Media Takes Scary, Cultlike Turn

As Karoline Leavitt goes full North Korea in her obsequious praise for Trump, a sharp observer of Trumpism explains what all this says about the “MAGA aesthetic” and its likeness to authoritarian propaganda.

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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?