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The Big Winner of Trump’s Much-Hyped Trade Deal Is ... Not the U.S.

It’s a great day to be an Anglophile. But the global economy is still on the verge of a ruinous trade war.

Editor’s Picks

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Trump’s Rants About Young Girls’ Dolls Just Got Weirder and Darker

Who actually wants to work at a Barbie doll factory in America, anyway?

Donald Trump is trailed by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy at a press conference in late January.

Trump Is Destroying the Data that Keeps the Country Running

DOGE’s attacks on the administrative state threaten to undermine essential data gathering across a vast array of fields, from economics to the environment.

TNR Features

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Heart of Darkness

Decades Later, the Truth Behind a Grisly Mass Murder in El Salvador

Politics

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Katherine Stewart

How Trump Will Use “Anti-Christian Bias” to Entrench His Power

The administration plans to boost the political agenda of Christian nationalists while rolling back the civil liberties of everyone else.

Vin Testa waves a LGBTQIA pride flag in front of the U.S. Supreme Court Building.

Transgender Rights Are in Grave Peril at the Supreme Court

The high court’s decision to uphold Trump’s ban on trans soldiers points to worrisome outcomes in pending cases that affect these vulnerable Americans.

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

Trump Erupts as GOPers Quietly Ice His US Attorney Pick, Enraging MAGA

As Trump’s pick for the crucial role of U.S. Attorney for D.C. runs into trouble over his insurrectionism, triggering MAGA, a former prosecutor explains why blocking him would deliver a blow to Trumpism.

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

Trump’s Odd New Tariff Musings Show How Badly He’s Screwing His Voters

As a perfect storm of Trump policies is set to hit rural America, a veteran Democratic organizer reflects on whether his party can capitalize to peel off some of Trump’s lockstep rural support.

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?