News & Politics

Annals of Television
The Mischievous Ex-Bankers Behind “Industry”
Konrad Kay and Mickey Down failed as financiers—but they’re making a killing by depicting the profession on HBO.

Reporting & Essays

Letter from the Netherlands
How to Leave the U.S.A.

In the wake of President Trump’s reëlection, the number of aggrieved Americans seeking a new life abroad appears to be rising. The Netherlands offers one way out.

Life and Letters
Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?

The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.

Personal History
And Your Little Dog, Too

Two small dogs, both unleashed, rushed toward me, snarling, and one of them bit me on my left leg, just below the knee. It all happened within a second.

Takes
Katy Waldman on Mary McCarthy’s “One Touch of Nature”

A reader trusts the author’s voice instinctively, charmed by its opaline assessments and zinging aperçus. Still, one can quibble.
Commentary

Comment
The Trump Administration’s Chaos in the Caribbean

Pete Hegseth’s conduct is a case study in how the government’s growing sense of heedlessness and unaccountability is shaping disastrous policy.
The Lede
Mikie Sherrill Intends to Move Fast
Sherrill, the governor-elect of New Jersey, argues that if Democrats don’t learn to work at Donald Trump’s pace, “we’re going to get played.”
The Lede
What America Can Learn from Its Largest Wildfire of the Year
When Dragon Bravo ignited, in Grand Canyon National Park, officials decided to let it burn. Then the fire spread out of control.
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The Lede
The Dishonorable Strikes on Venezuelan Boats
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New reporting suggests that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth violated multiple rules of war.
Conversations

Q. & A.
The Legal Consequences of Pete Hegseth’s “Kill Them All” Order

A former military judge on the Trump Administration’s contradictory—and likely unlawful—justifications for its Caribbean bombing campaign.

Q. & A.
How M.B.S. Won Back Washington

After the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi leader became a pariah. He’s been slowly rehabilitated, and is now being celebrated in the Oval Office.

Q. & A.
How the Conflict in Sudan Became a Humanitarian Catastrophe

After a coup devolved into open warfare, countries across the region have pursued their own policy and commercial interests by backing one side or the other.

Q. & A.
What the Democrats’ Good Night Means for 2026 and Beyond

The senior elections analyst at RealClearPolitics on what the Party might’ve learned, and how the electorate is changing.
From Our Columnists

The Financial Page
What Happens When an “Infinite-Money Machine” Unravels

After Michael Saylor’s software company Strategy stockpiled hundreds of thousands of bitcoins, he was hailed as an alchemist. Then things went awry.

The Sporting Scene
The Weird Spectacle of the World Cup Draw

At the event, the matchups seemed beside the point, eclipsed by FIFA’s bizarre Peace Prize ceremony for Donald Trump and other cringey moments.

The Financial Page
What Can Economists Agree on These Days?

A new book, “The London Consensus,” offers a framework for rethinking economic policy in a fractured age of inequality, populism, and political crisis.

The Sporting Scene
The N.B.A.’s Breakneck Momentum

Are the higher speed and intensity that have made the game so fun to watch the very forces that are sidelining its stars with injuries?
More News

Screening Room
Building a State of Fear in “Extremist”

Alexander Molochnikov’s short film reinterprets an act of protest that called attention to the invasion of Ukraine, and led to the imprisonment of Sasha Skochilenko, a young Russian artist, in 2023.

Letter from Trump’s Washington
War Is Peace, the Dozing Don Edition

The outcry grows over Trump’s undeclared war in the Caribbean.

Comment
The Undermining of the C.D.C.

The Department of Health and Human Services maintains that it is hewing to “gold standard, evidence-based science”—doublespeak that might unsettle Orwell.

The Lede
What are Putin’s Ultimate Demands for Peace in Ukraine?

The Trump Administration has claimed that it’s nearing a deal to end the war, but, for now, the conflict’s essential impasse still holds: Moscow won’t accept what Kyiv can stomach.

The Lede
Ukrainian Men Approaching Military Age Are Fleeing in Droves

A new policy has led to an exodus of male citizens. Will they return if the war ends?

Fault Lines
Jeffrey Epstein, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and the Future of American Politics

Life after Trump may not be what we expect.


The Lede
For Trump, “Fostering the Future” Looks a Lot Like the Past

By putting the religious rights of potential foster parents above the civil rights of L.G.B.T.Q. youth, a new executive order reënacts the original sin of the child-welfare system.