Donald Trump

Circumstances in which people are feeling extreme disorientation are potent breeding grounds for people who are willing to exploit it in moments of crisis.

How a clerk on Ellis Island at the dawn of the 20th century documented discrimination through photography, and what that tells us about today’s malaise.

Past presidents showed that removing millions of illegal aliens is achievable.

For centuries, theorists of liberal governance have worried about how emergencies can unfetter executive power. Trump has given those fears new urgency.

Democrats’ cultural aversion to power has cleaved an opening for Trump.

The president is right to release the Kennedy files.

For decades, Washington has denied, downplayed and rationalized atrocities by its allies.

Reformers in the Republican Party had been calling for a professional, merit-based civil service since shortly after the Civil War.

It’s Fort Bragg again. So why are Confederate heritage groups so mad?

Presidents can't shutter an agency Congress created by statute. Only Congress has this power.

That’s not how separation of powers works under the U.S. Constitution.

Musk and Trump are capitalizing on decades of confusion and broken promises to lay waste to a crucial agency.

America’s early leaders were worried not only about demagogues like Donald Trump, but about the rise of an antidemocratic, wealthy elite that goads such men on.

Video has become our dominant cultural medium, yet we lack reliable archives for the audiovisual record.

Do judges have the power to enforce their rulings if the executive branch refuses to comply?

Harold Ross founded The New Yorker as a comic weekly. A hundred years later, we’re doubling down on our commitment to the much richer publication it became.

For a century, Americans have embraced a punitive approach to addiction—one that has undermined treatment efforts.

Mifepristone took longer to get approved than most drugs—but not because it was unsafe.

Instead of compelling Canada to become an American state, the 1890 McKinley Tariff drove Canada into British hands.

Attempts to add Canada to the U.S. have gone poorly since the 1770s. Trump's rhetoric threatens a repeat.