With the help of the agency, the Trump Administration is doing everything it can to make emissions grow again.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/31/the-epa-vs-the-environment
The President cannot legally shut down a government agency, but his Administration could make it essentially impossible for the D.O.E. to function.https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/trumps-vivisection-of-the-department-of-education
So far, NASA has been spared the sweeping cuts that DOGE has unleashed on other federal agencies. Is that about to change?https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/inside-trump-and-musks-takeover-of-nasa
In its conflict with a federal judge, the Justice Department claims to be complying with his orders while provoking a constitutional crisis.https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-trump-administration-nears-open-defiance-of-the-courts
The Administration’s defiance of Congress and the judiciary has both flouted and made use of the country’s legal system.https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-constitutional-crisis-fails-to-capture-trumps-attack-on-the-rule-of-law
A legal scholar explains the unusual justification for the Columbia graduate’s arrest, and what it could augur for immigration enforcement in Trump’s second term.https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/mahmoud-khalils-constitutional-rights-and-the-power-of-ice
And that the West has misunderstood Vladimir Putin.https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-john-mearsheimer-thinks-donald-trump-is-right-on-ukraine
Trump has suspended all military aid to Ukraine in an apparent attempt to bring the country to the negotiating table. But does Russia need to negotiate?https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/what-putin-wants-now
The Social Security Administration is shuttering offices, and the Republicans’ own math suggests that they are planning big cuts to Medicaid and SNAP.https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-financial-page/dont-believe-trumps-promises-about-protecting-the-social-safety-net
As a Purdue Boilermakers fan, I’ve experienced plenty of heartbreak during the N.C.A.A. tournament. Was it a matter of skill, or of chance?https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/is-march-madness-all-luck
There’s a new strategy of disavowal emerging among some progressive politicians—and it is destined to fail.https://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/what-gavin-newsoms-embarrassing-podcast-suggests-about-the-democratic-party
President William McKinley was a steadfast protectionist—until a depression and a G.O.P. wipeout.https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-financial-page/even-donald-trumps-historical-role-model-had-second-thoughts-about-tariffs
What does it mean to have a President who views his time in office as the biggest, bestest Andrew Lloyd Webber theatrical ever?https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/donald-trump-producer-in-chief
Mahmoud Khalil’s case is eerily similar to that of the L.A. Eight, in which a group of students were targeted, not because of any criminal activity but because of their speech.https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/mahmoud-khalil-and-the-last-time-pro-palestinian-activists-faced-deportation
A unit inside the C.F.P.B. protects servicemembers and veterans from financial scams. The Trump Administration has tried to stop it.https://www.newyorker.com/news/deep-state-diaries/killing-the-militarys-consumer-watchdog
As a doctor at Al-Aqsa Hospital, I saw what a collapse in the ceasefire could mean—and what can happen when a patient is given a chance.https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-girl-who-gave-me-hope-for-gaza
The stereotype of the unmotivated official, which has fuelled Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s assault on government workers, has existed for as long as bureaucracy itself.https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-long-nap-of-the-lazy-bureaucrat
The writer, surgeon, and former U.S.A.I.D. senior official Atul Gawande on the Trump Administration’s decimation of foreign aid and the consequences around the world.https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/atul-gawande-on-elon-musks-surgery-with-a-chainsaw
Whatever legal rationale the Trump Administration cooks up, deporting protesters for things they say is wildly un-American—and possibly unpopular, too.https://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/the-detention-of-mahmoud-khalil-is-a-flagrant-assault-on-free-speech
Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE?https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-data-hoarders-resisting-trumps-purge