Tag: Donald Trump

One Republican offers a ray of light during these dark times: That this pandemic will end the Trump presidency.

“U.S. officials constantly said they were making progress. They were not, and they knew it.”

Like so many of our lofty ideals, the “American Work Ethic” is actually two different standards — one for the wealthy and one for the poor — with two different interpretations of what work looks like.

Golden Age antiheroes and the nasty women who humanized them.

In Mark Doten’s “Trump Sky Alpha,” a journalist who has survived Trump’s nuclear apocalypse gets an assignment from what’s left of the New York Times Magazine: find out what people were tweeting as the bombs fell.

Jim Acosta isn’t the first reporter to be barred from the White House—when Stuart Loory reported on the possibility that Richard Nixon was bilking taxpayers, he found himself on the president’s enemies list.

Physiognomy is a discarded 19th-century pseudoscience. Why can’t we stop practicing it?

Aaron Thier contemplates the connections between privilege, addiction, and recovery.

Journalist Rebecca Mead explains why she first left England for the United States, and why she’s now moving back to a country that isn’t necessarily home.

Otto Warmbier got arrested in North Korea, sentenced to hard labor, and was eventually sent back to the U.S. — comatose. As with many things North Korean, the why and how is speculative at best.

The SCOTUS opinion upholding the Muslim ban might not be legally wrong, but shouldn’t the court look at what is just as well as what is legal?

The ruling minority of white men are getting nervous about impending destabilization of their power.

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s Jezebel essay “A Theory of Animals” is a gut punch. Read it.

Quoting Shakespeare isn’t new, but using it in court to fight Trump’s immigration control is.

On the tenth anniversary of Tim Russert’s death, one question rings out over the last decade in American politics: What Would Tim Ask?

After serving in combat during the Vietnam War, nothing Robert S. Mueller encounters will ever be as intense.

Why Kanye referenced a nonexistent slave owner.

In Idaho, former state representative Paulette Jordan faces a tough race to become the nation’s first Native American governor.

The only thing a tourist who stays at Trump properties gets for free is a disturbing vision of America’s future.

After years of trying to distinguish herself, Sara Eckel considers the value of door-to-door canvassing, phone-banking, and other anonymous tasks of everyday activism.

We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in political writing.

The Cajun Navy was an essential part of Hurricane Harvey relief. But like everything else, their efforts became politically complicated.

“Freedom” is just another word for being under the thumb of a powerful white man — for now.

How the whiplash-like event of Trump following the nation’s first black president has “compressed time.”

In this oral history of the 2016 election, the media loses the narrative thread it had been creating for decades.

Under the Global Gag Rule, medical professionals cannot counsel a woman to seek an abortion — even in cases where it will save her life.

First-hand knowledge of the trauma of sexual assault has informed Allred’s fight against it.

Fifty years ago, the Freedom of Information Act gave the public access to government secrets — all you had to do was ask. How a simple request became a bureaucratic nightmare.

In an excerpt from his upcoming book on the Obama administration, Coates constructs an incisive look at Donald Trump’s political ascent.

Alexander Nazaryan spends a night at Trump’s first home in Queens to see if it can tell him anything about the president.