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Michael Tomasky

Would President Trump Have Stopped Hitler? The Answer Is Alarming.

The free world is standing on an all-too-familiar precipice. But we’re not standing with it.

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US President Donald Trump arrives to greet Emmanuel Macron, France's president, not pictured, outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Feb. 24,2025. Macron is aiming to secure US security guarantees for Ukraine, slow down Washington's talks with Russia, and demonstrate Europe's commitment to increase defense spending.

Trumpism Isn’t Working

As a checked-out president sits back and lets Elon Musk shred the civil service, the signs of economic calamity are growing—and Americans of all stripes are getting pissed off.

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

Yair Golan: The IDF General Who Can Revive the Israeli Left

He calls Netanyahu a “criminal.” His new party is small now, but it’s the best hope Israeli progressives have had in a while.

Andrew (L) and Tristan Tate arrive in the United States after a travel ban on them was lifted.

Trump Is Expanding His Dangerous Cult of Impunity

The president has made it clear that he’ll bend over backward to benefit the criminal and corrupt—as long as they kiss his ring.

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.

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Leslie Bibb, Michelle Monaghan and Carrie Coon in "The White Lotus."

The Perverse Reason We Can’t Resist The White Lotus

The HBO show’s wealthy characters may be villainous, but that doesn’t make their lives any less alluring.

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

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Kim Phillips-Fein

The Dark Legacy of Reaganism

Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein

The Cult of the Entrepreneur

Podcasts

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.

Donald Trump looks down during his Cabinet meeting

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

Trump Hit by Brutal Poll on Economy as Panicked GOPers Nix Town Halls

With Trump and Republicans facing turbulence over rising prices and Elon Musk’s rampage, a former White House strategist argues that Democrats can capitalize on Trump’s rising vulnerability on the economy.

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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.