In less than a month since returning to office, Trump has overseen a rapid assault on the federal government—initiating mass firings of federal employees and handing over unprecedented powers to Elon ...

Among them were the reliability of Israel’s highly regarded intelligence force, Hamas’s alleged pragmatism since it rose to ...

Before COVID-19, the prevailing anti-poverty agenda centered on the earned income tax credit and the child tax credit. These ...

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Donald Trump is back in the White House. His campaign claims—immigrants are stealing, murdering, and collecting public ...

Donald Trump spent his first days back in the White House rolling out plans for mass deportations, an unbridled assault on civil rights, and the defunding of vital social programs. Meanwhile, the tech ...

This essay is part of an Election Chronicle series in our Winter 2025 issue, Trump’s Return. Subscribe to get a copy. The sheer scale of money in politics is now hard to imagine. Over the last fifteen ...