News & Politics

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.

Reporting & Essays

Letter from Caracas
The Lights Are Still On in Venezuela

After the ouster of President Nicolás Maduro, some residents fear that one unelected despot has been swapped for another.

Annals of Technology
How WhatsApp Took Over the Global Conversation

The platform has become a core technology around the world, relied on by governments and extended families alike. What are we all doing there?

Profiles
How Marco Rubio Went from “Little Marco” to Trump’s Foreign-Policy Enabler

As Secretary of State, the President’s onetime foe now offers him lavish displays of public praise—and will execute his agenda in Venezuela and around the globe.

U.S. Journal
The Backcountry Rescue Squad at America’s Busiest National Park

In the Great Smoky Mountains, an auxiliary team of élite outdoorsmen answers the call when park-goers’ hikes, climbs, and rafting adventures go wrong.
Commentary

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.

The Lede
Iran’s Regime Is Unsustainable

Political repression and a teetering economy have sparked widespread protests and chants of “Death to the Dictator.”

The Lede
The Supreme Court Gets Back to Work

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

The Lede
The Bloody Lesson the Ayatollah Took from the Shah

With demonstrations in dozens of cities across Iran, Ali Khamenei and his regime are faced with a dilemma.
Conversations

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.”

Q. & A.
What Makes the Iranian Protests Different This Time

Unrest has spread across the Islamic Republic as it faces economic disaster at home and a profound weakening of its network of regional allies.

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.

Q. & A.
The Maduro Regime Without Maduro

A political scientist explains how the Venezuelan President ran the country, why he was so unpopular, and, after his seizure by the Trump Administration, who might take over.
From Our Columnists

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 Financial Page
The Dangerous Paradox of A.I. Abundance

Silicon Valley envisions artificial intelligence ushering in an era of economic plenty. But what if the benefits are largely confined to corporations and investors that own the technology itself?

The Sporting Scene
Aaron Rodgers, Football’s Rorschach Quarterback

The Pittsburgh Steelers gambled on the forty-two-year-old, one of the N.F.L.’s most polarizing players, to try to end their playoff disappointments. Will it pay off?

Fault Lines
What a Viral YouTube Video Says About the Future of Journalism

A streamer’s investigation of fraud in Minnesota garnered millions of views. His content was questionable, but his methods will likely inspire scores of imitators.
More News

The Lede
How an Attack on Obamacare Saved Abortion in Wyoming

In the most conservative state in the U.S., libertarianism can lead in surprising directions.

Comment
Donald Trump Was Never an Isolationist

He once defied the G.O.P. by blasting military interventions. But what looked like anti-interventionism is really a preference for power freed from the pretense of principle.

The Lede
An ICE Killing Puts Minneapolis on the Brink

The city where George Floyd was murdered finds itself again at the epicenter of a national crisis.

Letter from Trump’s Washington
Why Donald Trump Wants Greenland (and Everything Else)

There’s no Trump Doctrine, just a map of the world that the President wants to write his name on in big gold letters.

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.

New York Journal
Mr. Mamdani’s (New) Neighborhood

The corner of the Upper East Side the Mayor will call home is both far and not so far from Astoria.

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?