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What’s Legally Allowed in War

How U.S. military lawyers see Israel’s invasion of Gaza—and the public’s reaction to it—as a dress rehearsal for a potential conflict with a foreign power like China.
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How Trump Worship Took Hold in Washington

The President is at the center of a brazenly transactional ecosystem that rewards flattery and lockstep loyalty.
Profiles

The Mexican President Who’s Facing Off with Trump

Can Claudia Sheinbaum manage the demands from D.C.—and her own country’s fragile democracy?
Onward and Upward with Technology

Subtitling Your Life

Hearing aids and cochlear implants have been getting better for years, but a new type of device—eyeglasses that display real-time speech transcription on their lenses—is a game-changing breakthrough.
Letter from Gaza

Hospitals in Ruins

Doctors are delivering lifesaving care in a ravaged health-care system—and risking their own lives in the process.

Commentary

The Lede

The Show Can’t Go On

Funding shifts at three of the largest philanthropic foundations have brought turbulence and uncertainty to the intricate New York support system for the performing arts.
The Lede

The Guerrilla Marketing Campaign Against Elon Musk

As Tesla’s profits drop, a group called Everyone Hates Elon is going viral for plastering London with fake advertisements for the company, infiltrating a car showroom, and inviting the public to trash a Model S.
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The Immigrant Families Jailed in Texas

Children have long been put in migrant detention if they were apprehended at the border. Today, lawyers have found, families are being removed from stable lives in the United States.
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Pope Francis’s Tangled Relationship with Argentina

Amid the extreme political polarization in his home country, the Pope found himself at odds with nearly every President.

Conversations

Q. & A.

The Biden Official Who Doesn’t Oppose Trump’s Student Deportations

Why the Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt blames universities for “opening the door” to the Trump Administration’s professed campaign to tackle antisemitism.
Q. & A.

China’s Plan to Fight Trump’s Trade War

A professor at M.I.T. on how Xi Jinping is likely to respond to U.S. tariffs and why the standoff won’t weaken the Chinese Communist Party’s grip on power.
Q. & A.

How the Supreme Court Misunderstands Donald Trump

A legal scholar argues that the judiciary’s “passive-aggressive approach” to the Trump Administration is doomed to fail.
Q. & A.

How Trump’s Tariffs Fit the Autocrat’s Playbook

The President thrives on confrontation and demands supplication. Politicizing the economy creates opportunities for both.

From Our Columnists

The Financial Page

Why Harvard Can Afford to Stand Up to Donald Trump

The university’s $53.2-billion endowment has positioned it to resist the bullying tactics of an increasingly authoritarian President.
The Sporting Scene

The Face of the Devastated Sports Fan

There are classic moments in this subgenre of deflated fandom that you may have seen before, even if you do not love or pay much attention to sports.
The Financial Page

Elizabeth Warren Is Trying to Stop “The Dumbest Financial Crisis Ever”

The Massachusetts Democrat argues that Trumponomics is wrecking the American economy.
The Financial Page

How Donald Trump Crushed the Stock Market

The President’s tariff policy isn’t strategic protectionism; it’s economic self-harm.

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Persons of Interest

The Conservative Lawyer Defending a Firm from Donald Trump

Paul Clement complained that Big Law was becoming “increasingly woke.” Now he’s defending one firm’s right to do just that.
Letter from Trump’s Washington

Waiting for Trump’s Big, Beautiful Deals

Whether a trade pact with China or a peace accord with Russia, the President doesn’t seem to know what he’s actually asking for, never mind how to actually achieve it.
Deep State Diaries

What “America First” Could Cost Us

As the Trump Administration forces the U.S. to retreat from labor-protection programs abroad, American workers might end up suffering, too.
The Lede

The Supreme Court Finally Takes On Trump

In an overnight ruling, the Justices defended the rule of law. Will their toughness last?
The Lede

The Cost of Defunding Harvard

If you or someone you love has cancer, cardiovascular disease, dementia, Parkinson’s disease, or diabetes, you have likely benefitted from the university’s federally funded discoveries in care and treatment.
Postscript

The Down-to-Earth Pope

In a historic moment characterized by autocrats and would-be autocrats, Francis was the antithesis of a strongman.
Comment

Donald Trump’s Deportation Obsession

Right-wing ideologues have long fantasized about the prospect of mass self-deportation: the Trump Administration is attempting something far more radical.
The Lede

The Terrorism Suspect Trump Sent Back to Bukele

An MS-13 leader knew key details of a secret deal that his gang allegedly made with the Salvadoran President—then the White House put him on a flight to El Salvador.