Next year’s 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence can’t come soon enough. Both Democrats and Republicans need remedial lessons in basic American principles, stat. by Matthew Continetti
Lisa Cook and Stephen Miran will both cast votes at the Federal Reserve’s meeting on Wednesday, where policymakers are expected to lower interest rates.
Officials used Charlie Kirk’s podcast to make unsubstantiated claims about their political opponents. A motive is still being sought in Mr. Kirk’s killing.
After a shooting with obvious political resonance, news about the perpetrator’s motives rarely brings clarity. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
How Jessica Reed Kraus Went from Mommy Blogger to MAHA Maven
The founder of “House Inhabit” has grown her audience during the second Trump Administration with political gossip and what she calls “quality conspiracy.” By Clare Malone
Is the Sagrada Família a Masterpiece or Kitsch?
In the century since Antoni Gaudí died, his wild design has been obsessively realized, creating the world’s tallest church—and an endlessly debated icon. By D. T. Max
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a “framework” of a TikTok deal with China but gave no details. President Trump will speak Friday with Xi Jinping.
Calling Charlie Kirk a martyr, they see an opportunity to supercharge the movement he began and to cement conservative Christian values in American life.
Rubio, in Israel, Says a Diplomatic Solution to Gaza War May Not be Possible
Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel to discuss President Trump’s desire to see the war in Gaza end soon.
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 9.14.25 Issue features David Enrich, Matthew Goldstein and Jessica Silver-Greenberg on how JPMorgan enabled the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein; Jonathan Mahler on how Trump shut down the war on cancer; Amy X. Wang on gold diggers; and more.
When most people think about Jeffrey Epstein, they think of a sexual-abuse scandal. But it’s also a financial scandal — one in which JPMorgan, the nation’s largest bank, not only enabled Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation but also enriched him while reaping profits for itself. Matthew Goldstein, and a team of other Times journalists, combed through 13,000 documents to explain why. By Matthew Goldstein, Gabriel Blanco and June Kim
F.B.I. leaders touted the immense federal deployment assigned to find the assassin. But their big break came with a single tip — from the suspect’s own family.
After Trump’s Cuts, ‘Crippled’ NPR and PBS Stations Must Transform
Radio and TV stations, facing wide budget gaps, are pleading with NPR and PBS to lower fees as they examine whether to drop national programming altogether.
Brazil Keeps Telling Trump to Get Lost
Brazil, which just convicted former President Jair Bolsonaro over a coup attempt, is proving to be a test case for how to defy President Trump.
As Sabotage in Europe Mounts, So Do Calls to Retaliate Against Russia
Drones in Poland and GPS jamming attributed to Russia have intensified a debate over whether the West should impose stiffer penalties for “hybrid
President Trump cautioned that the information was preliminary. An official said that authorities were not releasing a name because they were still pursuing leads.
Senate Republicans used what is known as the nuclear option to break a Democratic blockade of President Trump’s nominees, weakening Congress’s vetting role.
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the humanities? Yes — and every student gets their own personal chatbot. The second coming of the Trump Administration has exposed the civic sclerosis of the US body politic? Time to turn the Social Security Administration over to Grok. Climate apocalypse now feels less like a distant terror than a fact of life? In five years, more than a fifth of global energy demand will come from data centers alone.
Naturally there were lots of law enforcement types hanging around the convention — men with military fades, moisture-wicking shirts, and tattoos of the Bible and the Constitution and eagles and flags distended across their arms. But there were also a handful of women ICE applicants and a lot of men of color. The deportation officer applicant pool was, I felt, shockingly diverse — one might say it looked like America. The whole place looked and felt like America.
The challenge posed by this political crisis is how to take the stupidity seriously without reducing it to a wholly mental or psychiatric, let alone genetic, phenomenon. Stupidity can be understood as a problem of social systems rather than individuals, as André Spicer and Mats Alvesson explore in their book The Stupidity Paradox. Stupidity, they write, can become “functional,” a feature of how organizations operate on a daily basis, obstructing ideas and intelligence despite the palpable negative consequences. Yet it’s hard to identify anything functional about Trumpian stupidity, which is less a form of organizational inertia or disarray than a slash-and-burn assault on the very things — universities, public health, market data — that help make the world intelligible.
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