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Donald Trump Is a Fake Populist

His second term has been driven by long-standing priorities of the conservative movement.

Building Blocks

An “Abundance Agenda” for Government Is the Anti-DOGE

Julian E. Zelizer

Building Blocks

Julian E. Zelizer

An “Abundance Agenda” for Government Is the Anti-DOGE

Building Blocks

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.

An “Abundance Agenda” for Government Is the Anti-DOGE

Julian E. Zelizer

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

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

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

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

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

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

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

Sean Baker, director of Anora, became only the second person in the history of the Oscars to win four awards for the same film.

The No-Drama Oscars

Sean Baker, director of Anora, became only the second person in the history of the Oscars to win four awards for the same film.

The No-Drama Oscars

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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

A bodega in Reading

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

Politics

Hakeem Jeffries looks back as he stands in front of the US Capitol.

Why the Second Trump Presidency Is So Much Worse for Democrats

The first time around, the party had a plausible endgame for Trump’s reign. Today, that’s entirely absent.

Rep. Angie Craig, ranking member of the House Agriculture Committee, speaks at a press conference flanked by her fellow Democrats.

GOP Budget Cuts Stand to Deal Tremendous Damage to Rural Economies

As congressional Republicans mull slashing federal spending, a key nutrition program is on the chopping block—and everyone on our food supply chains could take a hit.

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

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.

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

An image of the merged faces of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump

Kim Phillips-Fein

The Dark Legacy of Reaganism

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.