The administration is trying to assert political control over American higher education.

His executive orders ultimately seek to make the market for oil and gas as big as possible.

Trump’s pardons will encourage more violence.

Horror features many of today’s most exciting filmmakers and exemplifies our anxious moment. Yet the Academy continues to shut it out.

What the first few days reveal about how the president plans to govern.

What makes this dynamic in the new Trump administration so fascinating?

Fraud in research needs to end.

It’s a mistake for President Trump to order the United States to leave the World Health Organization. He should reverse course immediately.

The problem with populism is that it doesn’t work.

The past was more racially fluid than we assume — and maybe even more than the current day.

Reaction to Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde’s plea to President Trump. Also: Birthright citizenship; reporting on co-workers; a road to autocracy; post-disaster trauma.

The president’s Jan. 6 pardons mark a terrifying new chapter in blurring the past.

Party loyalty remains strong even for nominees who go down. Pete Hegseth’s no different, but the Trump era has strengthened it even more.

Anyone wondering whether the president was going to pick up from 2017 or 2021 can stop wondering.

In this first episode of a new series, David Wallace-Wells joins Patrick Healy to examine what President Trump’s position on climate change tells us about how he plans to wield power more broadly.

Chicago’s remarkable renewal after its own legendary disaster offers reassurance and lessons for how Los Angeles can recover.

He could continue to enact and accelerate the radical, sweeping agenda he began to implement in Trump 1.0.

Our emotional expressions have been taken to extremes, too.

President Trump seems poised to roll back the very incentives that are reviving American manufacturing.

Favoring TikTok over national security, releasing rioters, undermining global health efforts — these actions put all of us at risk.

Hollywood’s silence reveals the contours of our escalating conflict with China; we’re digesting the war on TikTok, instead.

Eight years ago, Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement spurred a big time reaction that shaped the decade. Now, it’s a different time.

Readers worry about immigration raids in schools. Also: Immigrants who fear seeking health care; military shortcomings; women’s slow progress; betting on Bitcoin.

Ezra Klein discusses the oligarchic power dynamics of the second Trump administration.

And why secular people should care.

The huddled masses yearning to breathe free have not always been received with open arms.

It’s not hard to understand how Curtis Yarvin won the admiration of powerful patrons.

Ezra Klein and Aaron Retica discuss the oligarchic power dynamics of the second Trump administration.

It’s time to require oil and gas companies to compensate communities, homeowners, businesses and even insurers for the losses.