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2025-01-21

  Pardons and Populism: Trump’s First Day Back in the White House

Warning: This episode contains strong language.On Monday, in the culmination of an extraordinary political comeback, Donald J. Trump was officially sworn in as president of the United States for a second time.Mr. Trump’s return comes just four years af...
  The New York Times author
2025-01-20

  The TikTok Flip-Flop

Over the past few weeks, users of the video app TikTok braced themselves for a national ban to take effect.This weekend, the app went dark. But less than 24 hours later, it came back. And it credited President-elect Donald J. Trump with flicking the sw...
  The New York Times author
2025-01-19

  The Sunday Read: ‘Opioids Ravaged a Kentucky Town. Then Rehab Became Its Business.’

Ingrid Jackson had never lived in a trailer before, or a small town. She was born in Louisville, Ky., the daughter of a man with schizophrenia who, in 1983, decapitated a 76-year-old woman. Jackson was 1 at the time. In 2010, at 27, she was in a car ac...
  The New York Times author
2025-01-18

  'The Interview': Curtis Yarvin Says Democracy Is Done. Powerful Conservatives Are Listening.

The once-fringe writer has long argued for an American monarchy. His ideas have found an audience in the incoming administration and Silicon Valley.Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subsc...
  The New York Times author
2025-01-17

  Waiting for the Immigration Raids, Again

Five years ago, we interviewed a woman who asked that we call her Herminia. It was the summer of 2019, just as former President Donald J. Trump — then in his first term — ordered nationwide raids to round up and deport undocumented immigrants. Herminia...
  The New York Times author
2025-01-16

  A Fragile Cease-Fire in Gaza

After 15 months of war, Israel and Hamas have agreed to a temporary cease-fire. The deal prompted hope that the war could end soon, but also caused worry that the tentative terms could easily fall apart.Patrick Kingsley, the Times’s Jerusalem bureau ch...
  The New York Times author
2025-01-15

  Drunkenness, Women and Wokeness: A Dramatic Confirmation Hearing for Pete Hegseth

On Tuesday, the confirmation process for President-elect Donald J. Trump’s cabinet picks kicked off with Pete Hegseth, for the position of defense secretary.Eric Schmitt, who covers U.S. national security, explains how the four-hour hearing unfolded, a...
  The New York Times author
2025-01-14

  Could the L.A. Fires Have Been Stopped Sooner?

 A week after fires broke out in the Los Angeles area, Californians are grappling with the widespread destruction.They’re also seeking answers from their leaders about why so much has been lost.Mike Baker and Christopher Flavelle, who have been coverin...
  The New York Times author
2025-01-13

  Big Tech’s Big Bet on Trump

Big Tech’s biggest names are throwing their weight behind Donald J. Trump in the biggest possible way, first as candidate and now as president-elect.Erin Griffith, who covers tech companies and Silicon Valley for The Times, charts the tech billionaire ...
  The New York Times author
2025-01-12

  The Sunday Read: ‘What Alice Munro Knew’

“My life has gone rosy, again,” Alice Munro told a friend in a buoyant letter of March 1975. For Munro, who was then emerging as one of her generation’s leading writers, the previous few years had been blighted by heartbreak and upheaval: a painful sep...
  The New York Times author