Donald Trump
Coverage of the 45th president of the United States, from his domestic and foreign policy to his tweets.


The Jeffrey Epstein story has swallowed the country whole.


Ceasefire negotiations falter as Gaza totters on the brink of famine.


It’s his latest move in an ongoing effort to silence critical news outlets and control the narrative.


Why is Columbia paying the Trump administration $200 million?


If you’re worried about inflation from Trump’s tariffs already, just wait until fall.


It’s a Pizzagate/QAnon scandal. It’s a Trump scandal. It’s a Me Too scandal. It has something for every political subculture.


Like much of what Trump touches, the fight over Alina Habba mingles authoritarianism with goonish incompetence.


If the president loses this case, he will go to the Supreme Court to bail him out again.


The House is heading for the door early to avoid an Epstein vote.


Senate Republicans are taking an enormous risk with the federal bench right now.


Fighting in Syria exposes a US-Israel rift.


Climate facts are inconvenient — so Trump is making them disappear.


Congress signs off on Trump’s request to claw back funding.


The president’s hardline message helped him get elected. Now it appears to be backfiring.


And Democrats shouldn’t be afraid to say it.


Trump’s DOJ turns its back on police reform.


A former federal prosecutor explains the Trump administration’s bizarre handling of the Epstein Files.


The economic logic of deporting undocumented workers doesn’t add up.


And why he’ll get away with it.


The White House wants to send Medicaid recipients to the mines.


NATO countries will buy weapons from the US — and deliver them to Ukraine.


And they didn’t even bother to explain themselves.


The change reverses decades of federal policy.


A truly scary new revelation about Trump’s effort to circumvent the TikTok ban.


ICE just got its biggest cash infusion in more than two decades. We know how they’re going to spend it.


Trump wants to lay off thousands of federal employees. Now, he can.


The new tariff deadline is August 1, Trump says.


The push to strip non-native Americans of citizenship echoes a dark chapter in American history.


What’s happening in the Democratic Party? A Vox reporter explains.


The public tends to dislike big budget bills, and the way they’re passed.


It cuts taxes, slashes the safety net, funds deportations, harms the clean energy industry, and sends the debt soaring.


Republicans are at varying levels of misleading, avoidance, or denial about this.


The $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts will be felt by all Americans.


The Trump administration is withholding nearly $7 billion in education funding.


How a 1965 prediction of impending Canadian doom sheds light on Trump’s talk of the 51st state.


Trying to keep track of all the chaos is overwhelming. So here’s a one-stop guide to the turmoil this Court caused.


How Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” attacks abortion and reproductive care, in 2 charts.


The president’s “big, beautiful bill” just got worse.


Is this the start of the Democrats’ Tea Party?

