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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. More than half of voters chose him anyway.

Editor’s Picks

Sherrod Brown and UAW members

Democrats Must Become the Workers’ Party Again

Reconnecting the Democratic Party to the working class is an electoral and a moral imperative, and it will be my mission for the rest of my life.

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.

TNR Features

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

Politics

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya speaking with members of the House Freedom Caucus

Here Come Two More Enemies of Science About to Lead Vital Agencies

A Senate committee this week will almost surely push forward the FDA and NIH nominees. Neither one has the public interest at heart.

Donald Trump speaks during a reception in the East Room of the White House.

Katherine Stewart

Beware Trump’s Talk of Coming “Emergencies”

Far-right rhetoric is suffused with dark talk of impending calamities. It’s a favorite trope of autocrats who are, themselves, the calamity.

Culture

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.

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.

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

Podcasts

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

Trump Hit by Brutal Fox News Graphic on Tariffs as More Bad Polls Land

As Trump’s announcement of tariffs causes the markets to slide—even on Fox!—Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg reflects on whether his party is doing enough to capitalize on the moment.

Donald Trump yells and wags a finger at Volodomyr Zelenskiy, who makes an exasperated hand gesture.

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

“Sick”: GOP Senator’s Harsh Takedown of Trump Hints at a Darker Story

As one GOP senator sharply criticizes Trump and JD Vance for ambushing Ukraine’s Zelenskiy, an expert on democratic erosion explains what the clash reveals about Trump-Vance’s message to the global far right.

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