Donald Trump

Musk and Trump are capitalizing on decades of confusion and broken promises to lay waste to a crucial agency.

America’s early leaders were worried not only about demagogues like Donald Trump, but about the rise of an antidemocratic, wealthy elite that goads such men on.

Video has become our dominant cultural medium, yet we lack reliable archives for the audiovisual record.

Do judges have the power to enforce their rulings if the executive branch refuses to comply?

Harold Ross founded The New Yorker as a comic weekly. A hundred years later, we’re doubling down on our commitment to the much richer publication it became.

For a century, Americans have embraced a punitive approach to addiction—one that has undermined treatment efforts.

Mifepristone took longer to get approved than most drugs—but not because it was unsafe.

Instead of compelling Canada to become an American state, the 1890 McKinley Tariff drove Canada into British hands.

Attempts to add Canada to the U.S. have gone poorly since the 1770s. Trump's rhetoric threatens a repeat.

How America’s search for total security keeps making the world more dangerous.

The left case for an independent Canada.

Efforts to target immigrants amid the 1992 L.A. Uprising point to what deportations might look like under Trump 2.0.

The attack on it is a violation of the nation’s post–Civil War rebirth.

Why is America’s near-mythic dynasty so nasty up close?

He’ll run into the same roadblocks as Presidents Taft, Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush, among others.

He's not the first to set his sights on the island.

The uproar over Trump’s remarks about the Canal recalls a lively debate from the late 1970s.

President Woodrow Wilson presided over the segregation of government workers, putting Black people behind screens and in cages in 1913.

Does the text mean what it plainly says?

By threatening to reclaim the Panama Canal, Trump is evoking false stories about U.S. beneficence.