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Elon Musk’s DOGE Cronies Are up to Some Disturbing Shenanigans
“Not normal”
Edith Olmsted
Elon Musk’s DOGE Cronies Are up to Some Disturbing Shenanigans
Trump Commerce Secretary Reveals His Next Goal: Abolish the IRS
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Hafiz Rashid
Trump Commerce Secretary Reveals His Next Goal: Abolish the IRS
JD Vance Insists Trump Is Doing So Well in Ukraine Negotiations
Keep it up!
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
JD Vance Insists Trump Is Doing So Well in Ukraine Negotiations
Mitch McConnell Finally Announces He Won’t Run Again. Good Riddance.
gerontocracy
Malcolm Ferguson
Mitch McConnell Finally Announces He Won’t Run Again. Good Riddance.
Republicans Are “Scared Sh*tless” of Trump’s Fans
“Scared shitless”
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Republicans Are “Scared Sh*tless” of Trump’s Fans
molon labe
Some Institutions Caved to Trump. Their Employees Are Fighting Back.
Melissa Gira Grant
molon labe
Melissa Gira Grant
Some Institutions Caved to Trump. Their Employees Are Fighting Back.
molon labe
Some Institutions Caved to Trump. Their Employees Are Fighting Back.
Melissa Gira Grant
molon labe
Melissa Gira Grant
Some Institutions Caved to Trump. Their Employees Are Fighting Back.
Health of Nations
What Trump’s Firing Spree Means for the Next Public Health Crisis
Grace Segers
Health of Nations
Grace Segers
What Trump’s Firing Spree Means for the Next Public Health Crisis
Backstabber
Alex Shephard
Trump Just Hit a Disgusting New Low for an American President
His embrace of Russia’s propaganda and strategic goals is appalling even by the standards of his extreme and callous second term.
Departures
Americans Are Heading for the Exits
Alaric DeArment
Departures
Alaric DeArment
Americans Are Heading for the Exits
PODCAST
Trump’s Eruption of Rage at Zelensky Forces GOP into Inane Contortions
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
PODCAST
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Trump’s Eruption of Rage at Zelensky Forces GOP into Inane Contortions
PODCAST
Trump’s Eruption of Rage at Zelensky Forces GOP into Inane Contortions
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
PODCAST
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Trump’s Eruption of Rage at Zelensky Forces GOP into Inane Contortions
Editor’s Picks
Timothy Noah
Trump’s Incompetence Is Botching His Own Deregulation Spree
Turns out that when you paralyze government agencies, it only makes it harder to undo Biden-era regulations.
Greg Sargent
Oops: Trump-Musk Cuts Just Wrecked an NIH Org Championed by GOPers
Republicans once lavished praise on an NIH center that deals with Alzheimer’s. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are hobbling it. What will those Republicans say now?
TNR Features
Repeat After Me
Michael Tomasky
Three Big Lessons for the Democrats in 2025
Politics
Abdullah Shihipar
How to Save Public Health: Follow Labor’s Lead
The Trumpian ascension of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. carries the potential for vast harm. Fortunately, the playbook for lessening the damage has already been written.
Matt Ford
The Latest Case Against Birthright Citizenship Is a Joke
A new op-ed from a pair of conservative legal experts only raises unflattering questions about the direction of the right's juridical scholarship.
The U.N. Expert on Palestine Who Captured the World’s Attention
Aaron Gell
Aaron Gell
The U.N. Expert on Palestine Who Captured the World’s Attention
Trump Saved Eric Adams’s Bacon—and Put the Country Up for Sale
Casey Michel
Casey Michel
Trump Saved Eric Adams’s Bacon—and Put the Country Up for Sale
Trump Saved Eric Adams’s Bacon—and Put the Country Up for Sale
Casey Michel
Casey Michel
Trump Saved Eric Adams’s Bacon—and Put the Country Up for Sale
Culture
Michael A. Cohen
Francis Fukuyama Was Right About Liberal Democracy
For all of its faults and weaknesses, no serious competitor has emerged to capture people’s imagination or seriously challenge it.
Samuel Clowes Huneke
How Pop Came Out of the Closet
Jon Savage’s “The Secret Public” traces the influence of queer artists on a hostile culture.
Climate
realpolitik
Alexander C. Kaufman
The Climate Policies That Trump Might Not Destroy
Despite the cuts to clean energy incentives, experts say certain sorts of projects could continue to get support at the state and federal level.
Musk and Trump Are Cutting Popular Programs. That’s Deliberate.
Liza Featherstone
Liza Featherstone
Musk and Trump Are Cutting Popular Programs. That’s Deliberate.
Why Tech Companies Are Joining the GOP-Oil Alliance
Kate Aronoff
Kate Aronoff
Why Tech Companies Are Joining the GOP-Oil Alliance
Why Tech Companies Are Joining the GOP-Oil Alliance
Kate Aronoff
Kate Aronoff
Why Tech Companies Are Joining the GOP-Oil Alliance
From the Magazine
THE ROAD TO MAGA
Kim Phillips-Fein
The Dark Legacy of Reaganism
Conservatives might be tempted to hold up Reagan as representative of a nobler era. They’d be wrong.
Magazine
Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein
The Cult of the Entrepreneur
Magazine
Win McCormack
Bob Dylan and Me
Magazine
Susan Milligan
It’s Time for Democrats to Woo the Man Vote
Podcasts
Podcast
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Stephen Miller Rages at CNN Host as Musk’s Latest DOGE Fiasco Implodes
As Miller and Elon Musk push new absurdities about the Department of Government Efficiency, a shrewd observer of Musk explains what all this says about MAGA’s collapsing “deep state” mythology.
Podcast
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Trump-Musk Threats Darken as Their Anger at Enemies Takes Ominous Turn
As Trump and Elon Musk signal menacing new intentions on numerous fronts, a scholar of democratic breakdown explains how we’re now seeing textbook signs of a country’s slide into authoritarian rule.
Podcast
Behind the Shoplifting Panic
The Politics of Everything
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
Behind the Shoplifting Panic
Podcast
Trump Rages at Mitch McConnell in Crazed Rants—Showing How He Cows GOP
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Podcast
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Trump Rages at Mitch McConnell in Crazed Rants—Showing How He Cows GOP
Podcast
Trump Rages at Mitch McConnell in Crazed Rants—Showing How He Cows GOP
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Podcast
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Trump Rages at Mitch McConnell in Crazed Rants—Showing How He Cows GOP
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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.
Christian Hunt
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.
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