Donald Trump
Coverage of the 45th president of the United States, from his domestic and foreign policy to his tweets.


The tech right saw in Trump what they wanted to see, but it wasn’t actually there


David French on Donald Trump’s breakup with the Federalist Society.


The very bad reason why the president has escalated his crackdown on the undocumented.


It’s not because he actually wants to end America’s reliance on undocumented labor.


The pro-pollution presidency rolls on.


Trump v. AFGE asks if the Republican justices’ new approach to separation of powers applies to Trump.


Here are the numbers behind the bill behind Trump’s breakup with Elon Musk.


For Trump’s ideological allies, it’s always 2020.


The government gives great guidance on vaccination. Or at least it used to.


Trump has expanded presidential power to ban broad groups of immigrants.


Trump’s lawyers claim they’ve found a loophole that will allow Trump to ship immigrants overseas to be tortured.




The rules don’t apply to Trump on the Court’s “shadow docket.”


Their messy split highlights some real fault lines in clean energy politics.


What Elon Musk’s retribution could look like.


If America wants a space program, it needs SpaceX.


Trump’s latest policy will impact millions of people around the world.


Was Jeffrey Epstein really Donald Trump’s “closest friend”?


DOGE disappointment? Policies that hurt Tesla? A pulled NASA nominee? How about all of the above?


Trump shut down the agency that protects civil servants from illegal firings. An appeals court has a plan to fix that.


In his latest move, Trump is attacking the people who have helped bail out American higher education.


Does Elon Musk’s opinion still matter?


Trump wants to blow a $3 trillion hole in the budget. The bond market is saying “no way.”


Maybe it’s unwise to pick a fight with the folks who control the Supreme Court?


If this decision stands on appeal, it’s a big loss for Trump that will make it difficult for his trade war to continue.


The real cost of forcing foreign students away from elite universities like Harvard.




The left’s attachment to thinking of politics in “material” terms is causing it to misread the moment.


The HHS secretary is tampering with vaccine recommendations.


The new political divide splitting young Americans in half.


New data that debunks the left’s favorite explanation for Harris’s defeat.


Trump is going after Harvard’s international students.


House Republicans just voted to cut taxes and Medicare.


Why people who work could still lose their health insurance.


Trump is promising tax cuts and a new golden age. Here’s what’s really inside it.


South Sudan isn’t safe. The Trump administration is sending immigrants there anyway.


The policy looks less like a pro-worker tax credit and more like a big business tax cut.


In 2015, right-wing intellectual Charles Murray wrote a book laying the groundwork for DOGE’s reign of terror.


An analysis of the last four months shows public opinion still has sway.

