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.
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.