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‘We Need Plot Twists’: Behind the Scenes of Trump’s Second Term By Fintan O’Toole, The New York Times, June 18, 2026
U.S. Forest Service to Open Millions of Acres to Off-Road Vehicles, Memo Shows By Lisa Friedman, The New York Times, June 5, 2026
Trump Arch Will Need Red Lights, F.A.A. Says By Karoun Demirjian, The New York Times, June 5, 2026
Trump Plans to Create a Promenade at the Lincoln Memorial By Luke Broadwater, The New York Times, June 4, 2026
How the Drive to Find a Conspiracy Against Trump Rocked the Justice Dept. By Devlin Barrett, The New York Times, June 8, 2026
Trump pardons former GOP congressman convicted of insider trading By Maegan Vazquez, The Washington Post, June 6, 2026
Trump walks out of ‘Meet the Press’ interview when challenged over false claims By Isaac Arnsdorf, The Washington Post, June 7, 2026
Ballroom donors won $50B in contracts after giving to Trump project, watchdog group finds By Jonathan Edwards, The Washington Post, June 4, 2026
Pushing Treatment, Trump Administration Limits Housing Aid for Homeless By Jason DeParle, The New York Times, June 2, 2026
Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System By Eric Niiler, The New York Times, June 3, 2026
War Games and Warnings on Strait of Hormuz Went Unheeded by Trump By Michael Crowley, The New York Times, June 2, 2026
Trump Hits the Stalemate Phase of His International Interventions, and It Stings By David E. Sanger, The New York Times, May 31, 2026
Trump Backs Off Plan for $1.8 Billion Fund That Drew Political Backlash By Tyler Pager, Maggie Haberman, Alan Feuer, Devlin Barrett and Annie Karni, The New York Times, June 2, 2026
Inside the Deal to Drop Trump’s $10 Billion Suit Against the I.R.S. By Alan Feuer, Andrew Duehren, Glenn Thrush, Ben Protess and Maggie Haberman, The New York Times, June 1, 2026
Trump Squeezes Immigrants by Cutting Them Off From Jobs, Health Care and Housing By Nicholas Nehamas, Miriam Jordan, Coral Davenport, Hamed Aleaziz, Lydia DePillis and Zolan Kanno-Youngs, The New York Times, May 30, 2026
Trump Administration Sees Striking Exodus of Legal Talent By Eileen Sullivan and Andrea Fuller, The New York Times, May 31, 2026
Blowing Up Boats Hasn’t Slowed Cocaine Traffic to U.S., Experts Say By Simon Romero, The New York Times, May 29, 2026
Research Funding Slows Again for Universities Targeted by White House By Adam Sella, Mark Arsenault, Stephanie Saul and Michael C. Bender, The New York Times, May 29, 2026
Trump Clears Way for Corporate Tax Dodge Hidden in the Fine Print By Jesse Drucker and Dylan Freedman, The New York Times, May 29, 2026
In Carroll Lawsuits Inquiry, Scrutiny Turns Toward Private Citizens Who Antagonized Trump By Glenn Thrush and Benjamin Weiser, The New York Times, May 29, 2026

There’s No Escaping the Rot in This Justice Department By Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times, May 29, 2026

What to Know About the Citizenship Lists Trump Wants to Create By Adam Sella, The New York Times, May 24, 2026
Were the Constitution’s Authors a Little Too Optimistic? By Adam Liptak, The New York Times, May 25, 2026
Tulsi Gabbard Resigns as Director of National Intelligence By Dustin Volz and Julian E. Barnes, The New York Times, May 22, 2026
Republicans Reject Raffensperger, Who Refused to ‘Find’ Votes for Trump By Richard Fausset and Nick Corasaniti, The New York Times, May 20, 2026
Early War Goal Was to Install Hard-Line Former President as Iran’s Leader By Mark Mazzetti, Julian E. Barnes, Farnaz Fassihi and Ronen Bergman, The New York Times, May 19, 2026
Trump demands Senate fire parliamentarian who ruled against ballroom funding plan By Isaac Arnsdorf and Jarrell Dillard, The Washington Post, May 20, 2026
Trump officials say they can build 250-foot arch without Congress’s okay By Dan Diamond, The Washington Post, May 20, 2026
There Has Never Been an Example of Presidential Corruption Like This By The Editorial Board, The New York Times, May 20, 2026
E.P.A. to End Some Limits on ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water By Lisa Friedman, The New York Times, May 19, 2026
Trump’s Push to Defeat Massie Is the Most Expensive House Primary in Recent Years By Theodore Schleifer and Matt Zdun, The New York Times, May 19, 2026
The Damage of ‘Trump Math’ Is Adding Up By Binyamin Appelbaum and James Robinson, The New York Times, May 15, 2026
With a Friend in Trump, the Tobacco Industry Secures a Lucrative Win By Christina Jewett and Kenneth P. Vogel, The New York Times, May 13, 2026
Trump Administration Will Withhold $1.3 Billion in Medicaid Payments to California By Sarah Kliff, The New York Times, May 13, 2026
The Iran War Worsens America’s Democratic Erosion By The Editorial Board, The New York Times, May 12, 2026
‘This Is All a Scam, a Giant Scam’ By Thomas B. Edsall, The New York Times, May 12, 2026
Trump's Truth Social lays bare narrow obsessions of an extremely online president By Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR, May 8, 2026
Trade court rules against Trump’s global tariff By David J. Lynch, The Washington Post, May 7, 2026
Trump returns to public events, delivering profane speech By Dan Diamond, The Washington Post, May 1, 2026
The Interview What Does Tucker Carlson Really Believe? I Went to Maine to Find Out By Lulu Garcia-Navarro, The New York Times, May 2, 2026
The everything, everywhere, all at once corruption story. By Isaac Saul, Tangle, May 1, 2026
Trump Withdraws Nomination of Casey Means for Surgeon General By Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Dani Blum, The New York Times, April 30, 2026
In Trump’s Orbit, Women Aren’t the Only Ones Concerned About Their Looks By Jesse McKinley, The New York Times, April 20, 2026
The Trump Administration Has Changed Almost Every Aspect of Food Stamps By Linda Qiu, The New York Times, April 26, 2026
AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to H.I.V. Assistance By Stephanie Nolen, The New York Times, April 25, 2026
Measles Is Back. What Comes Next Will Be Worse. By The Editorial Board, The New York Times, April 25, 2026
Trump Seeks to Abolish Iran’s Atomic Stockpile, a Problem He Helped Create By William J. Broad and David E. Sanger, The New York Times, April 25, 2026
Firm Building Trump’s Ballroom Got a Secret No-Bid Contract for a Nearby Job By David A. Fahrenthold, Luke Broadwater and Andrea Fuller, The New York Times, April 25, 2026
Trump Says He Dislikes Prediction Markets. His Family Invests in Them. By Ben Protess, The New York Times, April 24, 2026
Under Trump, Green Card Seekers Face New Scrutiny for Views on Israel By Hamed Aleaziz and Nicholas Nehamas, The New York Times, April 25, 2026
Tucker Carlson Says He Is ‘Tormented’ by His Past Support for Trump By Tim Balk, The New York Times, April 21, 2026
Where U.S. science has been hit hardest after Trump’s first year By Carolyn Y. Johnson , Lydia Sidhom and Susan Svrluga, The Washington Post, April 19, 2026
Trump’s Erratic Behavior and Extreme Comments Revive Mental Health Debate By Peter Baker, The New York Times, April 13, 2026
Four Ways Trump’s War Is Weakening America By The Editorial Board, The New York Times, April 12, 2026
Inside the Turmoil at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s C.D.C.: Forty-three current and former C.D.C. employees on the changes they say are replacing science with ideology — and making Americans more vulnerable. By Jeneen Interlandi, The New York Times Magazine, March 23, 2026
Trump Budget Does Little to Address Nation’s Fiscal Challenges By Andrew Duehren and Alan Rappeport, The New York Times, April 4, 2026
White House Seeks $1.5 Trillion for Defense in New Budget Request By Tony Romm, The New York Times, April 3, 2026
Trump Isn’t Taking Cuba. He’s Starving It. By Ricardo Zúniga, The New York Times, April 2, 2026
Trump Is Trying to Override Our Voting System By Mark R. Warner, The New York Times, March 31, 2026
The One Thing Trump Wanted That Pam Bondi Failed to Deliver By Jeffrey Toobin, The New York Times, April 2, 2026
Trump’s Cuts Have Eviscerated Once-Bipartisan Foreign Aid Programs By Catie Edmondson, The New York Times, April 2, 2026
Trump Killed the One Thing That Made Filing Taxes Easier By Binyamin Appelbaum, The New York Times, April 4, 2026
Trump Faces a Tough Fight With His New Budget By Tony Romm, The New York Times, April 2, 2026
War Clarifies Trump’s Spending Priorities: The Military, Not Child Care By Alan Rappeport, The New York Times, April 2, 2026
Judge rules Trump order eliminating NPR, PBS funding is unconstitutional By Scott Nover, The Washington Post, March 31, 2026
Judge Orders Construction Stopped on Trump’s White House Ballroom By Zach Montague, The New York Times, April 1, 2026
The One Question Trump’s Judicial Picks Refuse to Answer By Jeffrey Toobin, The New York Times, March 24, 2026
Prosecutor admits government lacks evidence of misconduct by Fed chair By Salvador Rizzo and Andrew Ackerman, The Washington Post, March 24, 2026
Trump Vowed to Crack Down on Fraudsters, but He’s Pardoned Dozens By Matthew Purdy and Luke Broadwater, The New York Times, March 19, 2026
‘Go Big and Go Loud’: Inside the Justice Dept.’s Push to Prosecute Protesters By Alan FeuerAlexandra Berzon and Ernesto Londoño, The New York Times, March 19, 2026
Trump’s Handpicked Arts Commission Approves Gold Coin With His Face on It By Luke Broadwater and Charlie Savage, The New York Times, March 19, 2026
Striking Down Pentagon Press Limits, Judge Vindicates Independent Journalism By Charlie Savage, The New York Times, March 20, 2026
Trump continues to target Robert Mueller after his death By Emily Davies, The Washington Post, March 21, 2026
Trump Jokes About Pearl Harbor in Meeting With Japan’s Leader By Javier C. Hernández, The New York Times, March 19, 2026
If You Hate Trump’s Economy, I Have News for You By Jason Furman, The New York Times, March 18, 2026
Trump’s Gutting of Election Security Fuels Worries for Midterms By Adam Sella, The New York Times, March 17, 2026
With Threats and Claims of ‘Treason,’ Trump Pressures Media on the War By Michael M. Grynbaum, The New York Times, March 16, 2026
What Are Trump’s Positions on Iran? They Can Change by the Sentence. By Zolan Kanno-Youngs, The New York Times, March 16, 2026
Last pro-Palestinian protester detained by Trump administration released By Susan Svrluga and David Nakamura, The Washington Post, March 16, 2026
Trump divulges congressman’s terminal illness, says doctors said he could be ‘dead by June’ By Mariana Alfaro, The Washington Post, March 16, 2026
Judge reinstates 1,000 Voice of America employees, deems wind-down illegal By Scott Nover, The Washington Post, March 17, 2026
Judge Strikes Down Kennedy’s Vaccine Policies By Apoorva Mandavilli, The New York Times, March 16, 2026
Fund-raising Email Features Trump at Ritual for Soldiers Killed in Iran War By Edward Wong, The New York Times, March 14, 2026
Judge Quashes Justice Dept.’s Subpoenas of Fed, Crippling Its Pursuit of Trump’s Rivals By Alan Feuer, Glenn Thrush and Colby Smith, The New York Times, March 13, 2026
Here’s One Boast Trump Won’t Be Making Anymore By Natasha Sarin, The New York Times, March 11, 2026
Unlike Past U.S. Conflicts, Iran Attack Is Opposed by Most Americans By Lily Boyce and Ruth Igielnik, The New York Times, March 10, 2026
Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job By Meryl Kornfield, Elizabeth Dwoskin and Lisa Rein, The Washington Post, March 10, 2026
After slashing federal jobs, Trump administration ramps up hiring By Emily Davies and Meryl Kornfield, The Washington Post, March 9, 2026
Americans are Now a Target in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown By Brenna T. Smith, Hannah Critchfield, Brian Whitton, Belle Cushing and Emma Scott, The Wall Street Journal, March 7, 2026
Why is the U.S. at war with Iran? Here’s what the Trump administration says. By Matthew Hay Brown, The Washington Post, March 7, 2026
Trump moves to undo tax rule that Biden said would bring in $100 billion By Julie Z. Weil, The Washington Post, March 7, 2026
Trump said he ended a war in Africa. U.S. sanctions say otherwise. By Isaac Arnsdorf and Rael Ombuor, The Washington Post, March 8, 2026
Judge rules Kari Lake unlawfully ran U.S. media agency, voiding layoffs By Scott Nover, The Washington Post, March 7, 2026
Pardon Industry Offers Rich Offenders a Path to Trump By Kenneth P. Vogel, The New York Times, March 6, 2026
How pregnant women’s Tylenol use changed after Trump linked it to autism By Lauren Weber and Ariana Eunjung Cha, The Washington Post, March 5, 2026
Epstein’s New Mexico Ranch Gets Scrutiny at Last. It May Be Too Late. By Reis Thebault, The New York Times, March 1, 2026
Testimony Offers New Details on Justice Dept. Role in Abrego Garcia Prosecution By Alan Feuer, The New York Times, Feb. 26, 2026
Judge Says U.S. Is Intentionally Violating the Law on Immigration By Jonah E. Bromwich, The New York Times, Feb. 26, 2026
Why Have You Started This War, Mr. President? By The Editorial Board, The New York Times, Feb. 28, 2026
Patel Ousts F.B.I. Personnel Tied to Inquiry Into Trump’s Retained Classified Records By Glenn ThrushAlan Feuer and Devlin Barrett, The New York Times, Feb. 25, 2026
Epstein Files Are Missing Records About Woman Who Made Claim Against Trump By Mike Baker and Michael Gold, The New York Times, Feb. 25, 2026
Casey Means, Critic of Mainstream Medicine, Poised to Become Nation’s Top Doctor By Dani Blum, The New York Times, Feb. 25, 2026
The Donald Trump 1 Percent Fan Club By Thomas B. Edsall, The New York Times, Feb. 24, 2026
Legally Creative, Democratically Dangerous: Trump’s Plan to Twist the News By The Editorial Board, The New York Times, Feb. 24, 2026
The Human Cost of Trump’s War on Science By Jeneen Interlandi, The New York Times, Feb. 23, 2026
Trump Demands Netflix Oust Susan Rice From Board By Joe Flint and Drew FitzGerald, The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 21, 2026
Trump Demeans Himself as He Attacks the Supreme Court By The Editorial Board, The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 20, 2026
DOJ Scrubs Record of Interviews With Trump Accuser From Epstein Files By Edith Olmsted, TNR, February 19, 2026
The Embarrassing Truth About Tariffs By The Editorial Board, The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 19, 2026
Trump aides struggle with how to spend $500 billion more on military By Jeff Stein and Dan Lamothe, The Washington Post, February 21, 2026
Bridge Owner Donated $1 Million to MAGA Group Before Trump Blasted Competitor By Kenneth P. Vogel and Matina Stevis-Gridneff, The New York Times, Feb. 20, 2026
A New U.S. Blockade Is Strangling Cuba By Jack Nicas and Christiaan Triebert, The New York Times, Feb. 20, 2026
You’re Paying 90% of Trump’s Tariffs By The Editorial Board, The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 13, 2026
In 2025, Trade Deficit in Goods Reached Record High By Ben Casselman and Ana Swanson, Graphics by Keith Collins, The New York Times, Feb. 19, 2026
One Man Stole $660 Million. He’ll Never Pay It Back. By Brendan Ballou, The New York Times, Feb. 18, 2026
Trump Sought Vast Budget Cuts. Congress Granted Few. By Tony Romm, The New York Times, Feb. 17, 2026
The many claims by Trump’s DHS that have fallen apart By Aaron Blake, CNN, February 17, 2026
Like Trump, U.S. Embassies Are Raising Cash for Lavish July Fourth Parties By Alexandra Stevenson, River Akira Davis and Kenneth P. Vogel, The New York Times, Feb. 15, 2026
Trump Said He’d End the War in a Day, but It’s Worsened for Ukrainians By Kim Barker and Oleksandra Mykolyshyn, The New York Times, Feb. 17, 2026
Trump’s Relentless Self-Promotion Fosters an American Cult of Personality By Peter Baker, The New York Times, February 15, 2026
President Trump’s Pardons: An Embarrassment of Riches By Dan Greenberg, Cato, February 11, 2026
The Presidency as Protection Racket By Dan Greenberg, Cato, February 5, 2026 (Reprinted from The Dispatch)
How Trump Is Remaking America, State by State By The New York Times, January 19, 2026
In Under 500 Words, a Judge Weaponized Wit to Free the Child Detained by ICE By A.O. Scott, The New York Times, February 3, 2026
Officials Pressed Schumer to Help Name Penn Station and Dulles Airport for Trump By Michael Gold, The New York Times, February 6, 2026
‘I did that’: Trump takes credit for a prisoner release that happened before he even ran for president By Daniel Dale, CNN, February 6, 2026
A Generational Collapse: Tracking the Toll of Trump’s Humanitarian Aid Cuts By Refugees International, February 5, 2026
Trump’s Stifling of Dissent Reaches a New Level By The Editorial Board, The New York Times, February 5, 2026
Trump Deletes Racist Video of Obamas After Outcry By Erica L. Green and Isabella Kwai, The New York Times, Feb. 6, 2026
‘They Couldn’t Break Me’: A Protester, the White House and a Doctored Photo By Erica L. Green, The New York Times, February 3, 2026
Global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030, study projects By Chico Harlan, The Washington Post, February 2, 2026
U.S. Manufacturing Is in Retreat and Trump’s Tariffs Aren’t Helping By David Uberti, The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 2, 2026
‘Spy Sheikh’ Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company By Sam Kessler, Rebecca Ballhaus, Eliot Brown and Angus Berwick, The Wall Street Journal, Jan. 31, 2026
Minneapolis Residents Wear Their Passports, Desperate to Ward Off ICE By Talya Minsberg and Lauren McCarthy, The New York Times, Jan. 31, 2026
Trump’s Lawsuit Against I.R.S. Creates ‘Enormous Conflict of Interest’ By Andrew Duehren, The New York Times, Jan. 30, 2026
Trump Sues I.R.S. Over Tax Data Leak, Demanding $10 Billion By Andrew Duehren and Chris Cameron, The New York Times, Jan. 29, 2026
‘The Biggest Act of Union-Busting in U.S. History’: Trump’s War on Federal Workers By Dan Kaufman, The New York Times Magazine, January 27, 2026
Administration Social Media Posts Echo White Supremacist Messaging By Evan Gorelick, The New York Times, Jan. 27, 2026
After Donations, Trump Administration Revoked Rule Requiring More Nursing Home Staff By Kenneth P. Vogel and Christina Jewett, The New York Times, Jan. 27, 2026
The Trump Administration Is Lying to Our Faces. Congress Must Act. The Editorial Board, The New York Times, January 25, 2026
How a Year of Trump Changed Britain By Mark Landler, The New York Times, Jan. 24, 2026
Formal U.S. withdrawal from WHO is decried as ‘scientifically reckless’ By Lena H. Sun, The Washington Post, January 22, 2026
Park Service removes slavery exhibit at Independence Park in Philadelphia By Jake Spring, The Washington Post, January 22, 2026
Labor Secretary’s Security Guard Placed on Leave By Rebecca Davis O'Brien, The New York Times, Jan. 23, 2026
Vance Announces Expansion of ‘Mexico City Rule’ to Cover D.E.I. and ‘Radical’ Gender Policies By Michael Crowley, The New York Times, Jan. 23, 2026
D.H.S. Cited Foreign Students’ Writings and Protests Before Their Arrests By Zach Montague, The New York Times, Jan. 22, 2026
A Year Inside Kash Patel’s F.B.I. By Emily Bazelon and Rachel Poser with Photographs by Stephen Voss, The New York Times Magazine, Jan. 22, 2026
How Trump Is Pushing to Expand Presidential Power By Charlie Savage and Lazaro Gamio, The New York Times, Jan. 19, 2026
Trump administration admits DOGE accessed personal Social Security data By Meryl Kornfield, The Washington Post, January 20, 2026
Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs, Study Finds By Tom Fairless, The Wall Street Journal, Jan. 19, 2026
The People of Minneapolis vs. ICE: A Street-Level View By Vivian Yee with Photographs by Todd Heisler, The New York Times, Jan. 17, 2026
A Year Into Trump’s War on Immigration, Images of an Altered America By Luis Ferré-Sadurní Photographs by Todd Heisler, The New York Times, December 30, 2025
‘We’ll Sue’: White House’s Warning to CBS Is Sign of a New Media Status Quo By Michael M. Grynbaum and Benjamin Mullin, The New York Times, January 17, 2026
Under Patel, F.B.I. Scours Its Records to Discredit Trump Opponents By Glenn Thrush and Alan Feuer, The New York Times, January 18, 2026
Trump Sets Fraudster Free From Prison for a Second Time By Kenneth P. Vogel and Susanne Craig, The New York Times, January 16, 2026
No Link Between Acetaminophen in Pregnancy and Autism, a New Study Finds By Azeen Ghorayshi, The New York Times, January 16, 2026

"The new review comes after President Trump told pregnant women during a news conference in September to “tough it out” and “fight like hell” not to take Tylenol, because he said the painkiller could cause autism in children. The message was delivered as part of a broader campaign by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to try to identify the causes behind rising autism rates among children in the United States, zeroing in on the unproven risks of acetaminophen and long-discredited theories that vaccines cause autism."

First US sale of Venezuelan oil goes to Vitol: Its trader donated to Trump’s re-election campaign FirstPost News Desk • January 16, 2026
Trump Releases Health Plan, but It’s Short on Specifics By Luke Broadwater, Rebecca Robbins, Margot Sanger-Katz and Michael Gold, The New York Times, Jan. 15, 2026
The Great Healthcare Plan January 15, 2026
Initial Review Finds No Widespread Illegal Voting by Migrants, Puncturing a Trump Claim By Alexandra Berzon and Nick Corasaniti, The New York Times, January 14, 2026
$25 Billion. That’s What Trump Cost Detroit. By Bill Saporito, The New York Times, Jan. 14, 2026
Trump Unmasked By Thomas Byrne Edsall, The New York Times, January 13, 2026
International central bankers on the statement by Federal Reserve Chair Powell on 11 January 2026 European Central Bank, Eurosystem, 13 January 2026
Top DOJ officials quit after their division refused to probe Minnesota ICE shooting By Carol Leonnig and Ken Dilanian, MSNOW News, January 12, 2026
U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane By Charlie Savage, Eric Schmitt, John Ismay, Julian E. Barnes, Riley Mellen and Christiaan Triebert, The New York Times, January 12, 2026
Fed Changes Course and Takes On Trump’s Political Fight By Colby Smith, The New York Times, January 12, 2026
Trump’s Attack on the Fed Is Already Backfiring By Jason Furman, The New York Times, January 12, 2026
Statement on the Federal Reserve Substack, Jan 12, 2026
Trump is trying to change how the midterm elections are conducted By Patrick Marley and Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, The Washington Post, January 12, 2026
‘He’s a Maximalist’: Inside Trump’s Gilded Oval Office By Ashley Wu, Doug Mills, Junho Lee, Marco Hernandez, Katie Rogers and Mika Gröndahl, The New York Times, Dec. 23, 2025
Trump Is the Political Earthquake Shaking Latin America By Jack Nicas and Ana Ionova, The New York Times, January 12, 2026
Under Trump, U.S. Adds Fuel to a Heating Planet By Lisa Friedman, The New York Times, January 12, 2026
Federal Prosecutors Open Investigation Into Fed Chair Powell By Glenn Thrush and Colby Smith, The New York Times, January 12, 2026
Congress Is Reversing Trump’s Steep Budget Cuts to Science By William J. Broad, The New York Times, January 10, 2026
Why Trump’s and Vance’s Claim About the War Powers Resolution Is Very Misleading By Charlie Savage, The New York Times, January 9, 2026
Trump’s ‘Superstar’ Appellate Judges Have Voted 133 to 12 in His Favor By Mattathias Schwartz and Emma Schartz, with Graphics by Alicia Parlapiano, The New York Times, January 11, 2026
220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump’s Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency By Emily Badger, Francesca Paris and Alicia Parlapiano, The New York Times, Jan. 9, 2026
Kennedy Flips Food Pyramid to Emphasize Red Meat and Whole Milk By Alice Callahan and Dani Blum, The New York Times, January 8, 2026
Buy Greenland? Take It? Why? An Old Pact Already Gives Trump a Free Hand. By Jeffrey Gettleman, Amelia Nierenberg and Maya Tekeli, The New York Times, January 7, 2026
Trump amplifies conspiracy theories on killing of Minnesota lawmaker By Mariana Alfaro and Maegan Vazquez, The Washington Post, January 4, 2025
Trump’s Attack on Venezuela Is Illegal and Unwise By The Editorial Board, The New York Times, Jan. 3, 2026
Born Deaf and Blind, She’s Caught in Trump’s Anti-Diversity Crusade By Sonia A. Rao, The New York Times, Dec. 15, 2025
How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little? By Emily Badger, David A. Fahrenthold, Alicia Parlapiano and Margot Sanger-Katz, The New York Times, Dec. 23, 2025
329 Days of Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump By Michael M. Grynbaum and Stuart A. Thompson, The New York Times, Dec. 20, 2025
The year Trump broke the federal government By Hannah Natanson and Meryl Kornfield, The Washington Post, December 21, 2025
‘Who’s Gonna Stop You?’ Listen to Trump Press Georgia Speaker Over 2020 Vote. By Richard Fausset and Danny Hakim, The New York Times, Dec. 17, 2025
Trump Administration Begins Program to Increase Government’s Tech Worker Ranks By Eileen Sullivan, The New York Times, Dec. 15, 2025
Trump Seizes on Rob Reiner’s Death to Attack the Hollywood Director By Luke Broadwater, The New York Times, Dec. 16, 2025
Takeaways From Susie Wiles’s Candid Interviews Describing Trump World By Peter Baker, The New York Times, Dec. 16, 2025
How a Manosphere Star Accused of Rape and Trafficking Was Freed By Megan Twohey and Isabella Kwai, The New York Times, Dec. 11, 2025
Giving Money Directly to Children Is an Idea the Right and Left Could Love By Nicholas Kulish, The New York Times, Dec. 6, 2025
Trump Administration Says Europe Faces ‘Civilizational Erasure’ By Michael D. Shear, Jeanna Smialek and Lara Jakes, The New York Times, Dec. 5, 2025
Kennedy’s Methodical 2-Decade Quest to Dismantle Vaccine Policy By Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Christina Jewett, The New York Times, December 5, 2025
A sickening moral slum of an administration By George F. Will, The Washington Post, December 2, 2025
Trump Intervenes Again in Honduras Vote, Alleging Fraud Without Evidence By Jack Nicas and Jeff Ernst, The New York Times, December 2, 2025
Former President of Honduras Is Freed From Prison After Trump Pardon By William K. Rashbaum, Maggie Haberman, Kenneth P. Vogel and Jonah E. Bromwich, The New York Times, Dec. 2, 2025
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence By Kenneth P. Vogel, The New York Times, Nov. 29, 2025
In Announcing Pardon of Drug Trafficker While Threatening Venezuela, Trump Displays Contradictions By Tyler Pager, The New York Times, Nov. 29, 2025
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine By Santul Nerkar, Annie Correal and Colin Moynihan, The New York Times, Nov. 29, 2025
In One Week, Trump Moves to Reshape U.S. Environmental Policy By Maxine Joselow, The New York Times, Nov. 22, 2025
The Moment China Proved It Was America’s Equal By Rush Doshi, The New York Times, Nov. 19, 2025
No, Mr. President, We Cannot ‘Leave It at That’ By The Editorial Board, The New York Times, Nov. 19, 2025
Trump Berates One Reporter and Tells Another,‘Quiet Piggy’ By Michael M. Grynbaum, The New York Times, Nov. 18, 2025
The Unraveling of the Justice Department: Sixty attorneys describe a year of chaos and suspicion. By Emily Bazelon and Rachel Poser, Photographs by Stephen Voss, The New York Times, Nov. 16, 2025
Trump’s Spending Abuses Are Out of Control. He Shouldn’t Have That Power in the First Place. By The Editorial Board, The New York Times, Nov. 14, 2025
Trump Administration Prepares Tariff Exemptions in Bid to Lower Food Prices By Ana Swanson, Maggie Haberman and Tyler Pager, The New York Times, Nov. 13, 2025
Trump Pardons Giuliani and Others Involved in Effort to Overturn 2020 Election By Alan Feuer and Glenn Thrush, The New York Times, Nov. 10, 2025
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy By Jesse Drucker, The New York Times, Nov. 8, 2025
I.R.S. Halts Free Online Offering for Filing Taxes Directly By Tara Siegel-Bernard, The New York Times, Nov. 6, 2025
How the Supreme Court Paved the Way for Revenge Prosecutions By Mary McCord and Andrew Weissmann, The New York Times, Nov. 1, 2025
Trump’s Retribution Campaign Leaves D.C. Prosecutor’s Office in Crisis By Alan Feuer, The New York Times, Nov. 2, 2025
Why Trump Can Do No Wrong By David French, The New York Times, Nov. 2, 2025
Are We Losing Our Democracy? By The Editorial Board, The New York Times, October 31, 2025
Nigerian Nobel Laureate Says the U.S. Revoked His Visa By Elizabeth A. Harris, The New York Times, Oct. 29, 2025
A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness By Tressie McMillan Cottom, The New York Times, Oct. 29, 2025
Behind the Dismantling of the C.D.C.: Reform or ‘Humiliation’? By Apoorva Mandavilli, The New York Times, Oct. 27, 2025
How Politics Is Changing the Way History Is Taught By Dana Goldstein, The New York Times, Oct. 27, 2025
The Secretive Office Approving Trump’s Boat Strikes By Jameel Jaffer, The New York Times, Oct. 23, 2025
An E.P.A. Plan to Kill a Major Climate Rule Is Worrying Business Leaders By Karen Zraick and Lisa Friedman, The New York Times, Oct. 25, 2025
The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law By Charlie Savage, The New York Times, Oct. 24, 2025
Amid the Rubble of the East Wing, Lessons in How Trump Exercises Power By David E. Sanger, The New York Times, Oct. 24, 2025
Trump’s Son Is Poised to Profit From Pentagon Drone Proposal By Eric Lipton, The New York Times, Oct. 24, 2025
Trump Pardons Founder of the Crypto Exchange Binance By David Yaffe-Bellany and Kenneth P. Vogel, The New York Times, Oct. 23, 2025
Trump Empowers Election Deniers, Still Fixated on 2020 Grievances By Alexandra Berzon and Nick Corasaniti, The New York Times, October 21, 2025
Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases By Devlin Barrett and Tyler Pager, The New York Times, October 21, 2025
Trump Dismisses Another Inspector General, Fueling Oversight Concerns By Luke Broadwater, The New York Times, October 21, 2025
In Trump’s Washington, Hate Is Not a Deal Breaker By Katie Rogers, The New York Times, October 21, 2025
Trump’s special counsel nominee withdraws from confirmation hearing By Meryl Kornfield, Theodoric Meyer and Cleve R. Wootson Jr., The Washington Post, October 21, 2025
They’re Small, Yellow and Round — and Show How Trump’s Tariffs Don’t Work By Michael Grunwald, The New York Times, Oct. 21, 2025
Trump’s Crackdown on Chinese Students Ignores a Startling New Reality By Bethany Allen and Jenny Wong Leung, The New York Times, Oct. 19, 2025
Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error By Apoorva Mandavilli and Sheryl Gay Stolberg, The New York Times, Oct. 11, 2025
This Is Why Your Energy Bills Are Going Up By The Editorial Board, The New York Times, Oct. 9, 2025
Trump Disgraces American Justice By The Editorial Board, The New York Times, Oct. 10, 2025
Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices By Lauren Kaori Gurley, The Washington Post, October 11, 2025
For Trump, media manipulation is his show of force By Sarah Ellison, The Washington Post, October 11, 2025
Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Death Threats By Sharon Otterman, The New York Times, Oct. 9, 2025
Big Investors Await Windfall From Trump’s Argentina Bailout By Alan Rappeport and Maria Abi-Habib, The New York Times, Oct. 11, 2025
In Retaliatory Move, Trump Threatens 100% Tariffs on Chinese Goods By Ana Swanson, The New York Times, Oct. 10, 2025
Trump Wants to Overhaul Drug Sales. A Company Tied to His Son Stands to Benefit. By Annie Linskey and Josh Dawsey, The Wall Street Journal, October 6, 2025
Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr. By Jerome Adams, Richard Carmona, Joycelyn Elders, Vivek Murthy, Antonia Novello and David Satcher, The Washington Post, October 7, 2025
Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion By Erwin Chemerinsky, The New York Times, Oct. 2, 2025
In East Timor, U.S. Retreats From Plan to Build ‘Lifesaving’ Sewage Plant By Ted Alcorn, The New York Times, October 1, 2025
Energy Dept. Cancels $7.5 Billion for Hundreds of Projects, Mostly in Blue States By Brad Plumer and Maxine Joselow, The New York Times, October 2, 2025
Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told By Charlie Savage and Eric Schmitt, The New York Times, October 2, 2025
Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Noncitizens Over Pro-Palestinian Speech By Zach Montague, The New York Times, Sept. 26, 2025
Where Mideast Envoy Pitched Peace, His Son Pitched Investors By Debra Kamen and Bradley Hope, The New York Times, Sept. 26, 2025
Giuliani and Dominion Voting Systems Settle $1.3 Billion Defamation Suit By Rylee Kirk, The New York Times, Sept. 27, 2025
Trump Gets the Retribution He Sought, and Shatters Norms in the Process By Alan Feuer, Jonah Bromwich and Maggie Haberman, The New York Times, Sept. 25, 2025
For Trump, Data Is Often ‘Phony,’ Unless It Supports His Views By Linda Qiu, The New York Times, Sept. 25, 2025
Trump Administration to Stop Measuring Food Insecurity By Jason DeParle, The New York Times, Sept. 20, 2025
Trump Justice Dept. Closed Investigation Into Tom Homan for Accepting Bag of Cash By Devlin Barrett, Glenn Thrush, Alan Feuer, Maggie Haberman and Hamed Aleaziz, The New York Times, Sept. 20, 2025
Trump Demands That Bondi Move ‘Now’ to Prosecute Foes By Alan Feuer, Glenn Thrush, Maggie Haberman and Devlin Barrett, The New York Times, Sept. 20, 2025
Trump unveils $100K yearly fee on H-1B visas in clampdown on legal immigration By Cat Zakrzewski, Lauren Kaori Gurley and David Nakamura, The Washington Post, September 19, 2025
Top Virginia prosecutor resigns amid criticism over Letitia James investigation By Salvador Rizzo, Perry Stein and Jeremy Roebuck, The Washington Post, September 20, 2025
A Trump Administration Playbook: No Data, No Problem By Maxine Joselow, The New York Times, Sept. 18, 2025
Trump Pressures Broadcasters Over Critical Coverage, Escalating Attack on Speech By Zolan Kanno-Youngs, The New York Times, Sept. 20, 2025
Tiffany Trump Cruised on an Oil Mogul’s Yacht as Her Father-in-Law Talked Oil Deals By Jo Becker, Tariq Panja, Bradley Hope and Justin Scheck, The New York Times, Sept. 18, 2025
Trump Has Freedom of Speech. Do You? By The Editorial Board, The New York Times, Sept. 19, 2025
New Data Show Trump Administration’s Illegal, Targeted Withholding of Funds By Joe Carlile and Devin O'Connor, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, September 18, 2025
Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches. By Eric Lipton, David Yaffe-Bellany, Bradley Hope, Tripp Mickle and Paul Mozur, The New York Times, Sept. 15, 2025
National park to remove photo of enslaved man’s scars By Jake Spring and Hannah Natanson, The Washington Post, September 15, 2025
E.P.A. To Stop Collecting Emissions Data From Polluters By Maxine Joselow, The New York Times, Sept. 12, 2025
Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer By Jonathan Mahler, The New York Times, Sept. 14, 2025
In an Era of Deep Polarization, Unity Is Not Trump’s Mission By Peter Baker, The New York Times, Sept. 14, 2025
Trump’s Policies Are Endangering Your Health By The Editorial Board, The New York Times, Sept. 12, 2025
Justice Dept. Reverses Course on Claims Guatemalan Children’s Parents Sought Their Return By Zach Montague, The New York Times, Sept. 10, 2025
$10 Million in Contraceptives Have Been Destroyed on Orders From Trump Officials By Stephanie Nolen, Jeanna Smialek and Edward Wong, The New York Times, Sept. 11, 2025
Trump Is Treating the Economy Like His Family Business By The Editorial Board, The New York Times, Sept. 10, 2025
White House Exerts Enormous Influence Over F.B.I., Lawsuit Says By Alan Feuer and Glenn Thrush, The Washington Post, September 10, 2025
Boat Suspected of Smuggling Drugs Is Said to Have Turned Before U.S. Attacked It By Charlie Savage and Helene Cooper, The Washington Post, September 10, 2025
Conspiracy theories helped elect Trump. Now he can’t shake them. By Karen Tumulty, The Washington Post, September 7, 2025
Stop Acting Like This Is Normal By Ezra Klein, The New York Times, September 7, 2025
Trump Tramples Congress’s Power, With Little Challenge From G.O.P. By Julian E. Barnes and Catie Edmondson, The New York Times, Sept. 7, 2025
Trump Tried to Kill the Infrastructure Law. Now He’s Getting Credit for Its Projects. By Richard Fausset, The New York Times, Sept. 7, 2025
Trump’s pick to lead BLS ran Twitter account with sexually degrading, bigoted attacks By Em Stack and Andrew Kaczynski, CNN, September 5, 2025
Trump Family Profits Even With Tepid Launch of Crypto Tokens By Eric Lipton, The New York Times, Sept. 1, 2025
Trump Says U.S. Attacked Boat Carrying Venezuelan Gang Members, Killing 11 By Helene Cooper, Eric Schmitt, Edward Wong and Alan Feuer, The New York Times, Sept. 2, 2025
Scientists Denounce Trump Administration’s Climate Report By Lisa Friedman and Sachi Kitajima Mulkey, The New York Times, September 2, 2025
Historians See Autocratic Playbook in Trump’s Attacks on Science By William J. Broad, The New York Times, Aug. 31, 2025
We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health By William Foege, William Roper, David Satcher, Jeffrey Koplan, Richard Besser, Tom Frieden, Anne Schuchat, Rochelle P. Walensky and Mandy K. Cohen, The New York Times, Sept. 1, 2025
Trump Is Wiping Out Unions. Why Are They So Quiet? By Erik Loomis, The New York Times, Sept. 1, 2025
He Plagiarized and Promoted Falsehoods. The White House Embraces Him. By Ken Bensinger, The New York Times, Aug. 30, 2025
Nothing Could Topple the ‘Queen of Heels.’ Then Trump Came Along. By Ana Swanson, The New York Times, Aug. 28, 2025
White House Says New C.D.C. Director Is Fired, but She Refuses to Leave By Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Apoorva Mandavilli and Christina Jewett, The New York Times, Aug. 28, 2025
An Industry Insider’s Changes at the E.P.A. Could Cost Taxpayers Billions By Hiroko Tabuchi, The New York Times, Aug. 28, 2025
Whistleblower says Trump officials copied millions of Social Security numbers By Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, August 26, 2025
Trump Signs Orders Aiming to End Cashless Bail By Luke Broadwater, The New York Times, Aug. 25, 2025
FEMA Employees Warn That Trump Is Gutting Disaster Response By Maxine Joselow, The New York Times, Aug. 25, 2025
Where’s Your Evidence, Mr. President? By The Editorial Board, The New York Times, Aug. 26, 2025
Trump’s Stunning Power Grab on Elections By Barton Gellman, The New York Times, Aug. 24, 2025
He Asked Tiffany Trump to Marry Him. Then the Deals Started Coming. By Justin Scheck, Tariq Panja, Jo Becker and Bradley Hope, The New York Times, Aug. 21, 2025
Reframing Jan. 6: After the Pardons, the Purge By Dan Barry and Alan Feuer, The New York Times, Aug. 24, 2025
As Troops Walk the Streets, Washington Restaurants Report a Slump By Korsha Wilson, The New York Times, Aug. 23, 2025
In Trump’s Second Term, Far-Right Agenda Enters the Mainstream By Alan Feuer, The New York Times, Aug. 23, 2025
How Trump Used 10 Emergency Declarations to Justify Hundreds of Actions By Karen Yourish and Charlie Smart, The New York Times, Aug. 22, 2025
Weaponizing the Housing Regulator By The Editorial Board, The Wall Street Journal, August 20, 2025
3 Experts on What Trump Is Doing to the Economy By Josh Barro, N. Gregory Mankiw, and Betsey Stevenson, The New York Times, Aug. 21, 2025
N.S.A.’s Acting Director Tried to Save Top Scientist From Purge By Julian E. Barnes, The New York Times, August 20, 2025
Trump’s Selective Stance on Justice: Redemption for Some, Scorn for Others By Erica L. Green, The New York Times, August 17, 2025
6 controversial ideas from Trump’s pick for top labor statistics job By Lauren Kaori Gurley, The Washington Post, August 15, 2025
This number is bad news for the economy By Mark Zandi, The Washington Post, August 15, 2025
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Impact So Far: ‘The Worst Possible Case’ By Emily Oster and David Wallace-Wells, The New York Times, Aug. 13, 2025
The Trump Choice That’s Uniting Many Economists Against It By Jason Furman, The New York Times, Aug. 13, 2025
Trump Misstates Washington Crime Data to Justify Takeover By Linda Qiu, The New York Times, August 12, 2025
Trump Deploys National Guard for D.C. Crime but Called Jan. 6 Rioters ‘Very Special’ By Luke Broadwater, The New York Times, August 12, 2025
Human Rights Report Under Trump Blunts Language on Israel and El Salvador By Edward Wong, The New York Times, August 12, 2025
New chatbot on Trump’s Truth Social platform keeps contradicting him By Drew Harwell, The Washington Post, August 10, 2025
Trump’s Trade Representative: Why We Remade the Global Order By Jamieson Greer, The New York Times, Aug. 7, 2025
Civil Cases Against Major Polluters Plummet Under Trump By Maxine Joselow and Harry Stevens, The New York Times, August 8, 2025
Senior Agent Who Helped Oversee F.B.I.’s Response to Jan. 6 Is Fired By Adam Goldman, Devlin Barrett, Glenn Thrush and William K. Rashbaum, The New York Times, August 7, 2025
Tim Cook Presents 'Unique Unit Of One' 24-Karat Gold Glass Gift To Trump In The Oval Office Forbes Breaking News, YouTube, August 6, 2025
Trump Administration Begins to Strip Federal Workers of Union Protections By Chris Cameron, The New York Times, August 6, 2025
After Donations, Trump Sided With Health Firms on Medicare Funds for Pricey Wound Care By Kenneth P. Vogel, Sarah Kliff and Katie Thomas, The New York Times, Aug. 7, 2025
Firing the BLS commissioner will come back to haunt Trump By N. Gregory Mankiw and Cecilia Rouse, The Washington Post, August 5, 2025
Republicans Suddenly Distrust Jobs Data After Trump Fires Statistics Chief By Luke Broadwater, The New York Times, August 4, 2025
Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump’s Pay-for-Access Operation By Kenneth P. Vogel and David Yaffe-Bellany, The New York Times, August 2, 2025
Trump, Claiming Weak Jobs Numbers Were ‘Rigged,’ Fires Labor Official By Ben Casselman and Tony Romm, The New York Times, August 1, 2025
Top Justice Department Antitrust Officials Fired Amid Internal Feud By Dave Michaels, The Wall Street Journal, July 29, 2025
In Game-Changing Climate Rollback, E.P.A. Aims to Kill a Bedrock Scientific Finding By Maxine Joselow and Lisa Friedman, The New York Times, July 29, 2025
Targeting Obama, Trump’s Retribution Campaign Takes Another Turn By Michael S. Schmidt, The New York Times, July 23, 2025
FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Chief Resigns, Citing Agency ‘Chaos’, Colleagues Said By Lisa Friedman, The New York Times, July 22, 2025
How Trump is using the courts to get what he wants - and changing the shape of presidential power By Gary O'Donoghue, BBC, July b21, 2025
Trump’s Perversion of Justice Has Reached a New Phase By David French, The New York Times, July 20, 2025
Supreme Court Keeps Ruling in Trump’s Favor, but Doesn’t Say Why By Adam Liptak, The New York Times, July 16, 2025
Trump says no one cares about Epstein. Why won't his base let it go? NPR, July 18, 2025
Trump tells supporters not to 'waste time' on Epstein files. They're not happy Heard on All Things Considered, featuring Stephen Fowler, July 15, 2025
Trump Is Gutting Weather Science and Reducing Disaster Response By Lisa Friedman, Maxine Joselow, Coral Davenport and Megan Mineiro, The New York Times, July 13, 2025
MAGA Is Tearing Itself Apart Over Jeffrey Epstein By David French, The New York Times, July 13, 2025
Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows By William J. Broad, The New York Times, July 10, 2025
The ‘Trump Pump’: How Crypto Lobbying Won Over a President By David Yaffe-Bellany and Kenneth P. Vogel, The New York Times, July 9, 2025
Big Beautiful Bill? It’s Certainly Big By Alan S. Blinder, The Wall Street Journal, July 10, 2025
Trump Administration Acknowledges Lack of Evidence From Epstein Documents By Devlin Barrett and Matthew Goldstein, The New York Times, July 7, 2025
Lawrence Summers: This Law Made Me Ashamed of My Country By Lawrence H. Summers, The New York Times, July 8, 2025
How Healthcare Cuts in the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Will Affect Americans By Dominique Mosbergen, Joseph Walker and Liz Essley Whyte, Graphics by Josh Ulick, The Wall Street Journal, July 6, 2025
Trump’s ‘Fiscal Dominance’ Play By Greg Ip, The Wall Street Journal, July 5, 2025
Seven Chaotic Months in the Life of a New Federal Judge By Emily Bazelon and Mattathias Schwartz, The New York Times, July 3, 2025
A Road Map for Undoing the Damage of the Big, Awful Bill By Jason Furman, The New York Times, July 5, 2025
Trump’s mega bill ‘hasn’t even cut taxes, it’s redistributed them’ | Justin Wolfers Times Radio, YouTube, July 4, 2025
A List of Nearly Everything in the G.O.P. Bill, and How Much It Would Cost or Save By Alicia Parlapiano, Margot Sanger-Katz, Aatish Bhatia and Josh Katz, The New York Times, July 3, 2025
Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill Passed By Richard Rubin, The Wall Street Journal, July 3, 2025
Trump Withholds Nearly $7 Billion for Schools, With Little Explanation By Sarah Mervosh and Michael C. Bender, The New York Times, July 1, 2025
Taking From the Poor and Giving to the Rich Is Not Populism By Thomas B. Edsall, The New York Times, July 1, 2025
Tillis Announces He Won’t Run Again as Trump Threatens Him With a Primary By Annie Karni, The New York Times, June 29, 2025
How the G.O.P. Bill Saves Money: Paperwork, Paperwork, Paperwork By Margaret Sanger-Katz and Emily Badger, The New York Times, June 29, 2025 ["Instead of directly reducing benefits for the poor, Republicans are making them harder to get and to keep."]
Trump Goes to Bat for Big Oil on Climate Rules in EU Trade Talks By Colin Eaton, The Wall Street Journal, June 26, 2025
The Evolution of Trump’s Views on Foreign Aid By Andrew Jacobs, Saurabh Datar and Antonio de Luca, The New York Times, June 26, 2025
Trump Won by Turning Out Voters and Building a Diverse Coalition, Report Finds By Ruth Igielnik and Shane Goldmacher, The New York Times, June 26, 2025
How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months By Nikole Hannah Hones, The New York Times Magazine, June 27, 2025
Trump’s Strategy in Law Firm Cases: Lose, Don’t Appeal, Yet Prevail By Adam Liptak, The New York Times, June 16, 2025
Business Lobbyists Scramble to Kill $100 Billion ‘Revenge Tax’ By Alan Rappeport and Colby Smith, The New York Times, June 16, 2025
As Trump Celebrates Army’s Founding, His Critics Take to the Streets By David E. Sanger, The New York Times, June 15, 2025
Trump Removed Crypto Warnings From Retirement Plans. Will That Affect 401(k)s? By Tara Siegel Bernard, The New York Times, June 6, 2025
Trump’s Big Bill Would Be More Regressive Than Any Major Law in Decades By Emily Badger, Alicia Parlapiano, and Margot Sanger-Katz, The New York Times, June 12, 2025
Rich Gain and Poor Lose in Republican Policy Bill, Budget Office Finds By Andrew Duehren, The New York Times, June 12, 2025
Russian Scientist Released After Four Months in Federal Custody By Ellen Barry and Maya Shwayder, The New York Times, June 12, 2025
Governor Newsom Delivers Major Address to Californians California Governor Gavin Newson, YouTube, June 10, 2025
In Trump’s ‘Patriotic’ Hiring Plan, Experts See a Politicized Federal Work Force By Eileen Sullivan, The New York Times, June 10, 2025
Trump Declares Dubious Emergencies to Amass Power, Scholars Say By Adam Liptak, The New York Times, June 10, 2025
Why on Earth Should Air Traffic Controllers Be Pro-Trump? By Erwin Chemerinsky and Catherine Fisk, The New York Times, June 6, 2025
Trump Calling Troops Into Los Angeles Is the Real Emergency By The Editorial Board, The New York Times, June 8, 2025
This Is the True Danger of Trump’s Tariffs By Michael W. McConnell. The New York Times, June 4, 2025
Corruption Has Flooded America. The Dams Are Breaking. By Ben Rhodes, The New York Times, June 8, 2025
A Comprehensive Accounting of Trump’s Culture of Corruption By The Editorial Board, The New York Times, June 7, 2025
Trump administration races to fix a big mistake: DOGE fired too many people By Hannah Natanson, Adam Taylor, Meryl Kornfield, Rachel Siegel and Scott Dance, The Washington Post, June 6, 2025
Republican Megabill Would Make 11 Million People Uninsured, New Estimates Show By Liz Essley Whyte, The Wall Street Journal, June 4, 2025
Trump Megabill Would Expand Deficits by $2.4 Trillion, CBO Estimates By Richard Rubin, The Wall Street Journal, June 4, 2025
Tallying Trump’s online posting frenzy: 2,262 ‘truths’ in 132 days By Drew Harwell, Clara Ence Morse and Emily Davies, The Washington Post, June 3, 2025
Trump and Allies Sell Domestic Policy Bill With Falsehoods By Linda Qiu, The New York Times, June 2, 2025
Trump Administration Ends Program Critical to Search for an H.I.V. Vaccine By Apoorva Mandavilli, The New York Times, May 30, 2025
Trump Gives Clemency to More Than Two Dozen, Including Political Allies By Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Luke Broadwater, The New York Times, May 30, 2025
A Disillusioned Musk, Distanced From Trump, Says He’s Exiting Washington By Tyler Pager, Maggie Haberman, Theodore Schleifer, Jonathan Swan and Ryan Mac, The New York Times, May 28, 2025
These historians oversee unbiased accounts of U.S. foreign policy. Trump fired them all. By Petula Dvorak, The Washington Post, May 28, 2025
Trump Pardons Former Virginia Sheriff Convicted of Bribery By Erica L. Green and Matthew Mpoke Bigg, The New York Times, May 27, 2025
Why Vietnam Ignored Its Own Laws to Fast-Track a Trump Family Golf Complex By Damien Cave, The New York Times, May 25, 2025
As Trumps Monetize Presidency, Profits Outstrip Protests By Peter Baker, The New York Times, May 25, 2025
I Was Obama’s Budget Director. It’s Time to Worry About the National Debt. By Peter R. Orszag, The New York Times, May 26, 2025
How Donald Trump Has Remade America’s Political Landscape By Shane Goldmacher, Graphics by June Kim and Christine Zhang, The New York Times, May 24, 2025

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Trump Administration Fires Librarian of Congress By Tim Balk, The New York Times, May 9, 2025
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Trump Weakens U.S. Cyberdefenses at a Moment of Rising Danger By David E. Sanger and Nick Corasaniti, The New York Times, April 4, 2025
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Trump Sidelines Justice Dept. Legal Office, Eroding Another Check on His Power By Charlie Savage, The New York Times, April 4, 2025

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A Disregard for the Rules Trickles Down From Trump to His Aides By Julian E. Barnes, The New York Times, March 27, 2025
Trump Takes Government Secrecy Seriously. But Only When It Suits Him. By Peter Baker, The New York Times, March 27, 2025
10,000 Federal Health Workers to Be Laid Off By Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Christina Jewett, The New York Times, March 27, 2025
Vaccine skeptic hired to head federal study of immunizations and autism By Lena H. Sun and Fenit Nirappil, The Washington Post, March 25, 2025
Elon Musk Returns to His Trump Playbook in a Big Wisconsin Race By Theodore Schleifer, The New York Times, March 22, 2025
What Is DOGE? Trump Says One Thing, Government Lawyers Say Another. By Zach Montague, The New York Times, March 22, 2025
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Social Security Employees Warn of Damage From DOGE By Tara Siegel Bernard, The New York Times, March 17, 2025
Trump administration tries to bring back fired nuclear weapons workers in DOGE reversal By Tara Kopp and Anthony Izaguirre, AP, February 16, 2025
Trump signs order to gut staff at Voice of America and other US-funded media organizations By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and DAVID BAUDER, A.P., March 15, 2025
Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health, Citing Fringe Theories By Teddy Rosenbluth, The New York Times, March 10, 2025
Trump Harms Consumers by Weakening the CFPB By Chris Dodd and Barney Frank, The Wall Street Journal, March 12, 2025
Trade Deficits Are Capital Surpluses By Jeremy J. Siegel, The Wall Street Journal, March 12, 2025 [Why tariffs are driving the U.S. stock market down.]
DOGE says it’s saving $100 billion. It’s about to lose a lot more. By Natasha Sarin, The Washington Post, March 13, 2025
Trump, Perkins Coie and John Adams By The Editorial Board, The Wall Street Journal, March 11, 2025
Trump Intensifies Statehood Threats in Attack on Canada By Matina Stevis-Gridneff, The New York Times, March 11, 2025
How Trump is reshaping reality by hiding data By Catherine Rampell and Amanda Shendruk, The Washington Post, March 11, 2025
Stalled Audits and a Skeleton Staff: Inside Trump’s War on the I.R.S. By Andrew Duehren, The New York Times, March 10, 2025
"Dismantling" independent oversight in D.C. 60 Minutes, YouTube, March 9, 2025
Immigration Authorities Arrest Pro-Palestinian Activist at Columbia By Eliza Shapiro, The New York Times, March 9, 2025
Fired, Then Rehired, by the Trump Administration By Elena Shao and Ashley Wu, The New York Times, March 6, 2025
White House Cancels $400 Million in Grants and Contracts to Columbia By Sharon Otterman and Liam Stack, The New York Times, March 7, 2025
‘You Can’t Pin Him Down’: Trump’s Contradictions Are His Ultimate Cover By Erica L. Green, The New York Times, March 8, 2025

So, we need to ignore what he says and focus on what he does.

Trump Allies Seek Pardons From an Emboldened White House By Kenneth P. Vogel, The New York Times, March 8, 2025

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Trump Celebrates After Killing Anti-Money-Laundering Law By Hafiz Rashid, The New Republic, March 3, 2025
‘Money, Lies, and God’ looks at the creation of MAGA’s ‘grass roots’ By Becca Rothfeld, The Washington Post, February 28, 2025
How DOGE detonated a crisis at a highly sensitive nuclear weapons agency By Evan Halper and Hannah Natanson, The Washington Post, March 2, 2025
Musk and Republican Lawmakers Pressure Judges with Impeachment Threats By Carl Hulse, The New York Times, March 1, 2025
She Lobbied for a Carcinogen. Now She’s at the E.P.A., Approving New Chemicals. By Hiroko Tabuchi, The New York Times, February 26, 2025
A look at the misleading and incorrect claims on DOGE's 'wall of receipts' PBS NewsHour, YouTube, February 26, 2025
Justice Department purge under Trump administration 60 Minutes, YouTube, February 23, 2025
CFPB, the consumer watchdog agency, under fire by President Trump, DOGE 60 Minutes, YouTube, February 24, 2025
In Trump’s Alternative Reality, Lies and Distortions Drive Change By Peter Baker, The New York Times, February 23, 2025
The Real Reason President Trump Pushes Tariffs By Kimberly Clausing, The New York Times, February 21, 2025
How Trump’s One-for-One Tariff Plan Threatens the Global Economy By Peter S. Goodman, The New York Times, February 16, 2025
How Trump’s Directives Echo Project 2025 By Elena Shao, Karen Yourish and June Kim, The New York Times, Feb. 14, 2025
The Trump Trial of Danielle Sassoon By The Editorial Board, The Wall Street Journal, February 14, 2025
What Is the Value-Added Tax That Trump So Despises? By Jenny Gross and Keith Bradsher, The New York Times, February 14, 2025
‘The W.T.O. Is Toast.’ What Happens to Global Trade Now. By Keith Bradsher, The New York Times, February 14, 2025
Trump Official’s Demand in Adams Case Forces Justice Dept. Showdown By Glenn Thrush, Devlin Barrett and Adam Goldman, The New York Times, Feb. 13, 2025
The GOP’s budget plan: Tax cuts for the rich, austerity for the poor By Catherine Rampell, The Washington Post, February 13, 2025
‘Reciprocal’ Tariffs Make No Sense By Douglas Irwin, The Wall Street Journal, February 13, 2025
How the Trumps Turned an Election Victory Into a Cash Bonanza By Rebecca Ballhaus, Dana Mattioli and Annie Linskey, The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 13, 2025
Trump Pauses Enforcement of Law Banning Foreign Bribery Isabella Kwai, The New York Times, February 11, 2025

What to Know About the Anti-Bribery Law Trump Is Targeting By Danielle Kaye, The New York Times, February 11, 2025

Five Former Treasury Secretaries: Our Democracy Is Under Siege By Robert E. RubinLawrence H. SummersTimothy F. GeithnerJacob J. Lew and Janet L. Yellen,The New York Times, Feb. 10, 2025
Early Crypto Traders Had Speedy Profit on Trump Coin as Others Suffered Losses By Eric Lipton and David Yaffe-Bellany, The New York Times, Feb. 9, 2025
Trump Says He Revoked Joe Biden’s Security Clearance By Annie Linskey and Ginger Adams Otis, The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 7, 2025
When the arsonist demands praise for his firefighting skills By Catherine Rampell, The Washington Post, February 7, 2025
Trump Brazenly Defies Laws in Escalating Executive Power Grab By Charlie Savage, The New York Times, February 5, 2025
Our Health in the Hands of a Man Who’d Make Us Sick By Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times, Feb. 1, 2025
The Republicans’ Choice: Tax Cuts for the Rich or Health Care for Americans By Aaron Carroll, The New York Times, Feb. 2, 2025
Trump Slaps Tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China in Opening Salvo of Trade War By Vipal Monga, Gavin Bade, Brian Schwartz, and Santiago Pérez, The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 1, 2025
The Dumbest Trade War in History By The Editorial Board, The Wall Street Journal, January 31, 2025
Trump Misleads on D.E.I. Policies in Blaming Biden for Plane Crash By Linda Qiu, The New York Times, February 1, 2025 [There is no evidence that diversity efforts played a role in the crash, and his statements disregarded his own administration’s hiring policies.]
Trump Orders Schools to Ease Sexual Misconduct Rules By Joey McFadden, Daily Beast, January 31, 2025
A new era of government censorship has dawned By Catherine Rampell, The Washington Post, January 30, 2025
Trump’s Economy Looks Like Command Capitalism By Tim Wu, The New York Times, January 29, 2025
TikTok, Trump and What Crony Capitalism Does to Our Economy By Filipe Campante and Raymond Fisman, The New York Times, January 21, 2025
Don’t Call Kennedy a Vaccine Skeptic. Call Him What He Is: A Cynic. By Paul A. Offit, The New York Times, Jan. 13, 2025

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