Trump’s Greenland Fiasco | The New Yorker
In 1978, Václav Havel, the Czech playwright, dissident, and future President, wrote an essay, distributed clandestinely, that tells…
How Marco Rubio Went from “Little Marco” to Trump’s Foreign-Policy Enabler
As Secretary of State and also national-security adviser, Rubio is, at least in theory, the most powerful American…
Why Trump Supports Protesters in Tehran but Not in Minneapolis
On January 8th, the twelfth day of mass protests in Iran, which began when shopkeepers, responding to runaway…
Denmark Is Sick of Being Bullied by Trump
When the King visited Greenland in April—looking jaunty and at ease while cruising on a fjord with the…
The Making of the First American Pope
The summer had the feel of a soft opening to Leo’s pontificate, in part because many papal events…
Pope Leo XIV Will Have Lunch With 4 Trans Women in “Unprecedented” Meeting
Sign up for The Agenda, Them’s news and politics newsletter, delivered Thursdays. Pope Leo XIV will meet and…
The Politics of Fear | The New Yorker
The young Donald Trump was the Nelson Muntz of Jamaica Estates. (Or was he its Draco Malfoy? Scholars…
Israel’s Zones of Denial | The New Yorker
“What we are doing in Gaza now is a war of devastation: indiscriminate, limitless, cruel and criminal killing…
Donald Trump’s Tariff Dealmaker-in-Chief | The New Yorker
Later that evening, Trump called Lutnick in a rage, wanting to know how the tariff amounts had been…