TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘The writer as thinker’ – On the novel of ideas; The age of misgovernment; Keeping up with the Camerons; Chaucer’s ambitions for English and Samuel Beckett and me…
Contrary to President Trump’s assertions, records filed in a fraud case against him suggest that his riches are not the product of a steady and strong empire.
Though some aspects of President Trump’s net worth are murky, it has unmistakably soared in the early months of his second term.
If President Trump gets his domestic policy bill over the finish line, it will be a vivid demonstration of his continuing hold over the Republican Party.
Vice President JD Vance arrived at the Capitol prepared to cast a tiebreaking vote on the bill, but it was not clear when Republicans would call a final vote.
Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers scaled back a law that was vilified for its role in California’s housing shortage and homelessness crisis.
Towns and troops long accustomed to merciless bombardment are adjusting to an even denser pattern of attacks.
FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE (06.30.25): The latest issue features ‘The Historical Presidency’ – Nine essays on what the global past reveals about our confounding present…
A crisis is unfolding before our eyes—and also in our heads. By Christopher Clark
Thinking via historical analogy has become the preferred way to confront our anxieties. Ivan Krastev, Leonard Benardo
Liberal critics charge Trump with creating a cult of personality not unlike Mao Zedong’s. Julia Lovell, Nicholas Guyatt
The military tide may have turned against Putin. Michael Kimmage
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue features Malika Favre’s “Literary Heights”…
How we got to a situation where a President can reasonably claim that it is lawful, without congressional approval, to bomb a country that has not attacked the U.S. By Jeannie Suk Gersen
The Booker Prize-winning author recommends three works by writers who, thanks to geography, may have never received their due.
The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education. By Hua Hsu
The Senate will vote on a sweeping Republican-drafted economic and domestic policy bill, with President Trump’s legislative agenda hanging in the balance.
The government said on Sunday night that it would cancel its tax on American technology companies, handing a victory to President Trump.
The Islamic Republic limps on after the 12-day conflict. Where will the nation go from here?
Republican leaders barely scaled a key procedural hurdle to bring up the bill. It was unclear whether the G.O.P. had the votes to pass it.
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 6.29.25 Issue features C.J. Chivers on the hundreds of cheap, long-range drones Russia is launching at Ukranian civilians at night; Nikole Hannah-Jones on the Trump administration’s dismantling of civil rights protections within the federal government; Parul Sehgal on the state of the modern biography; David Marchese interviews Andrew Schulz; and more.
An assault on federal protections may bring about a new era of unchecked discrimination.
How Russia’s terrifying long-range drone program has brought about a deadly new phase in the war. By C.J. Chivers and Finbarr O’Reilly
The court tied the hands of judges at a time when Congress has been cowed and internal executive branch constraints have been steamrolled.
Using truncated procedures, the six-justice conservative majority gave a green light to many of President Trump’s most assertive initiatives.
The authorities are sweeping up hundreds of people deemed spies or infiltrators. Some worry it could become a broader crackdown on political opponents and minorities.
Here’s what the recent Israeli and U.S. attacks on Iran may mean for the country’s nuclear ambitions.
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