How the Trump Administration Learned to Obscure the Truth in Court
This is a litigation strategy born of the first travel ban.
Politics
The Good News About Trump’s Tariffs
Authoritarian leaders are most dangerous when they’re popular. Wrecking the economy is unlikely to broaden Trump’s support.
Trump’s Day of Reckoning
The president’s allies are privately acknowledging that he is in a rough stretch.
Wisconsin’s Message for Trump
Elon Musk has become a political boat anchor.
No Tariff Exemptions for American Farmers
They voted for the tariffs when they voted for Trump.
The Big Story: The Fallout From the Signal Controversy
Jeffrey Goldberg joins Ashley Parker to discuss breaking the Signal story, the fallout, and more. Watch the recording of this subscriber-only event.
An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison
The Trump administration says that it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.
Why Trump Says He’s ‘Not Joking’ About a Third Term
The prospect of smashing imagined limits on his power gives him an obvious thrill.
Steven Cheung Is the Voice of Trump
The White House communications chief has a strategy: relentless aggression.
America’s Future Is Hungary
MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.