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Donald Trump

Reporting and commentary on the forty-fifth and forty-seventh President.

The Lede

Jay Powell, the Prepster Banker Who Is Standing Up to Trump

The seventy-two-year-old Fed chairman put to shame the heads of law firms, universities, and public companies who have caved to the White House.
The Lede

How Colombia’s President Reached an Uneasy Détente with Donald Trump

After the attack in Venezuela, its neighbor state reckons with U.S. aggression.
Q. & A.

How Donald Trump Has Transformed ICE

A former D.H.S. oversight official on what, legally, the agency can and can’t do—and the accountability mechanisms that have been “gutted beyond recognition.”
The Political Scene Podcast

Is Everything Going According to Marco Rubio’s Plan?

The Secretary of State is often described as the architect of U.S. policy toward Venezuela. How much control he actually exercises remains uncertain.
Fault Lines

What Comes After the Protests

The killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis will continue to bring people to the streets. Can it bring change?
The Lede

The Supreme Court Gets Back to Work

The Justices are heading into a busy, contentious season. The mood seems brittle.
The Political Scene Podcast

Is Donald Trump Creating the Conditions for Another World War?

“What you’re seeing both abroad and at home are completely optional conflicts created by the character of the President,” Jane Mayer says.
The Lede

The Aggressive Ambitions of Trump’s “Donroe Doctrine”

After his assault on Venezuela, the President is turning his attention to the rest of the Western Hemisphere.
Q. & A.

The Former Trump Skeptics Getting Behind His War in Venezuela

A onetime adviser to Marco Rubio and Mitt Romney argues that the U.S. has been “too cautious” in its use of force since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Lede

What Will Become of Venezuela’s Political Prisoners?

Jésus Armas, a prominent opposition leader, has been in prison in Caracas for the past year. With the country in turmoil, his mother worries about his fate.
The Lede

J. D. Vance’s Notable Absence on Venezuela

Was the Vice-President’s exclusion from the operation in Venezuela an expression of his anti-interventionist ideology—or a political calculation?
The Lede

The Dramatic Arraignment of Nicolás Maduro

By forcibly bringing the ousted President and his wife into jurisdiction of U.S. federal courts, Trump will now have to accept that at least two Venezuelans deserve the basic right to due process.
The Lede

Who’s Running Venezuela After the Fall of Maduro?

The country’s interim leader, Delcy Rodríguez, is in the awkward position of having to appease two hard-line, opposing audiences: the Trump Administration and what remains of the Venezuelan regime.
The Lede

Regime Change in America’s Back Yard

What comes after Nicolás Maduro’s ouster in Venezuela?
2025 in Review

Donald Trump’s Golden Age of Awful

A damage assessment of the President’s first year back in the White House.
The Lede

Trump, Epstein, and the Women

The Epstein files are a vast trove of documents and will take time to absorb, but Trump made his attitude about women clear long ago.
The Financial Page

The Biggest Threat to the 2026 Economy Is Still Donald Trump

Many analysts are predicting an election-year upturn, but they aren’t accounting for the President’s ability to cause more chaos.
The Lede

Trump Dishonors the Kennedy Center

A memorial to John F. Kennedy and his respect for the freedom of the arts has been renamed for a man with authoritarian instincts.
Letter from Trump’s Washington

Merry Christmas, America! The Checks Are in the Mail!

On Donald Trump’s insaaaane holiday message to the nation.
The Political Scene Podcast

Isaac Chotiner Sums Up Politics in 2025

The idea that Donald Trump is acting from a governing strategy or a conception of national interest “seems completely disconnected from reality,” Chotiner says.