From Day 1, Trump Shows He’ll Test Limits of What He Can Get Away With
His vice president, JD Vance, said he “obviously” wouldn’t do it. His nominee for attorney general, Pam Bondi, agreed there was no way: “The president does not like people that…
Labeling Mexican Cartels ‘Terrorists’ Could Expose U.S. Companies to Sanctions
President Trump’s executive order designating Mexican cartels and other criminal organizations as foreign terrorists could force some American companies to forgo doing business in Mexico rather than risk U.S. sanctions,…
One Family in Gaza Returned Home. But Home Was Gone.
Minutes after the fighting stopped in Gaza on Sunday, Islam Dahliz and his father and brother set out for the neighborhood where they had lived until Israeli forces ordered them…
Trump Asserts a Muscular Vision of Presidential Power on First Day Back
After President Trump left the White House in 2021, critics of his norm-breaking use of executive power implored Congress to tighten legal limits on when presidents can unilaterally reshape American…
Bringing Anne Frank’s Secret Annex to New York, and the World
The children seem like typical kindergartners: Some beam at the camera; some glance coyly aside; others appear lost in reverie. One slim, dark-haired girl in a pale dress looks precociously…
Little Red Hen Coffee Shop, a Go-To Diner in Altadena, Left in Ashes by the Eaton Fire
This is the place where an Anita Baker ballad slips through the speakers and the smell of bacon floats in an irresistible fog. Regulars (and who isn’t?) push through the…
Fighting Alongside Russia, North Koreans Wage Their Own War
The North Korean soldiers fighting for Moscow in Russia’s Kursk region are assigned their own patches of land to assault. Unlike their Russian counterparts, they advance with almost no armored…
Evacuation Orders Given Late to Altadena Area Where Eaton Fire Deaths Were Concentrated
As the first embers of the Eaton fire began showering homes in Pasadena and Altadena, Calif., this month, evacuation orders went out within minutes. But one neighborhood did not get…
How the Debt Could Hamstring Trump’s Agenda
When House Republicans gathered behind closed doors on Capitol Hill last week to hash out their plans for cutting taxes, Representative David Schweikert, an Arizona Republican, sounded a note of…
Opinion | Lessons on Authoritarianism From Around the World
Exile. Imprisonment. The end of elections. We know what tyranny looks like once it’s underway. But how does it start? In the Opinion Video above, you’ll meet people from around…