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Letter from Trump’s Washington

The Retribution Phase of Trump’s Presidency Has Begun

There was a certain awful predictability about the F.B.I.’s Friday-morning raids targeting the former Trump adviser turned critic John Bolton.
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Reporting & Essays

Onward and Upward with the Arts

The Otherworldly Ambitions of R. F. Kuang

The author of “Babel” and “Yellowface” is drawn to stories of striving. Her new fantasy novel, “Katabasis,” asks if graduate school is a kind of hell.
The Political Scene

Pam Bondi’s Power Play

Donald Trump now has the Attorney General he always wanted—an ally willing to harness the law to enable his agenda.
U.S. Journal

Bill Belichick Goes Back to School

Can the legendary former Patriots coach transform U.N.C. football?
Annals of Inquiry

The Family Fallout of DNA Surprises

Through genetic testing, millions of Americans are estimated to have discovered that their parents aren’t who they thought. The news has upended relationships and created a community looking for answers.

Commentary

The Lede

What It Would Actually Take to End the War in Ukraine

With Ukraine drained by more than three years of fighting, time is on the side of Vladimir Putin.
The Lede

Will the MAHA Moms Turn on Trump?

A leaked draft of a White House report on how to “Make Our Children Healthy Again” suggests that the Administration will do little to address food safety or nutrition.
The Lede

A Tale of Two Jurists in the Trump Era

James Boasberg, Emil Bove, and the state of the rule of law.
The Lede

Can Donald Trump Police the United States?

In a trial over the legality of the President’s deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles, there may be a definitive answer to where his power ends.

Conversations

Q. & A.

The Holocaust Historian Defending Israel Against Charges of Genocide

How the war in Gaza is dividing scholars of Nazi Germany.
Q. & A.

What Is Benjamin Netanyahu Really After?

Amos Harel, a defense analyst at Haaretz, on what’s behind Netanyahu’s push to reoccupy Gaza City, and how the Israeli Prime Minister has changed since the war began.
Q. & A.

How to Prevent More Starvation Deaths in Gaza

As Israel refuses to let in sufficient humanitarian aid, a leading expert on famine explains why even “flooding the zone” with food won’t be enough.
Q. & A.

How the Israeli Right Explains the Aid Disaster It Created

The fiercest defenders of Netanyahu’s war in Gaza continue to insist that Palestinians aren’t starving.

From Our Columnists

Fault Lines

The Joys of Moomscrolling

As Tove Jansson’s lovable creatures turn eighty, new generations are discovering a world where “trolling” means weathering life’s many anxieties.
The Financial Page

Big Business and Wall Street Need to Stand Up for Honest Data

In nominating an inexperienced MAGA partisan for commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Donald Trump is chipping away at an essential foundation of the American economy.
The Sporting Scene

The Hyped Revival of Mixed Doubles

In the U.S. Open, the format is being redesigned as a popularity contest engineered to generate buzz.
Fault Lines

The Curious Symbolism of J. D. Vance’s English Getaway

The Vice-President built his political brand on bashing élites. Why does he vacation like one?

More News

Essay

What Killed the Two-State Solution?

How deceit, delusion, and the inexorable pull of the past have transformed an idea once seen as a possible means to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into a dangerous gimmick.
Our Local Correspondents

Eric Adams’s Kettle-Cooked Administration

A scandal over a bag of chips exemplifies all that has gone wrong at City Hall.
The Lede

The Troubling Lines That Columbia Is Drawing

By adopting an overly broad and controversial definition of antisemitism, the university is putting both academic freedom and its Jewish students at risk.
Comment

Trump Sends in the National Guard

Is the President’s takeover of D.C. a dry run for other cities?
The Lede

The Texas Democrats’ Remote Resistance

After leaving the state to block the G.O.P. from redrawing the state’s congressional maps, Democratic lawmakers are keeping the pressure on from afar.
Letter from Trump’s Washington

Donald Trump’s Self-Own Summit with Vladimir Putin

Even the puffery-prone President couldn’t alchemize his non-deal with Russia into Trumpian gold.
The Lede

How an Asylum Seeker in U.S. Custody Ended Up in a Russian Prison

Eighteen months after an activist fled Russia to avoid persecution, an appeals court found that he lacked a “well-founded fear or clear probability of future persecution.”
The Lede

Ghislaine Maxwell’s Petition to the Supreme Court

The convicted sex offender is raising an important legal question—about whether an agreement by one federal prosecutor binds his colleagues across the country.