News & Politics

Amid national euphoria over the bombing of Iran—and the largely ignored devastation in Gaza—a question lurks: What is the country becoming?

Trump’s “populist” policy is backed by the National Restaurant Association—probably because it won’t stop establishments from paying servers below the minimum wage.

More than a thousand dentists have set up shop in Los Algodones. Their patients are mostly Americans who can’t afford the U.S.’s dental care.

It’s run by a Michigan-born Jesuit—and a meteorite expert—known as the Pope’s Astronomer.

As a Presidential candidate, Donald Trump made his world view plain: there was “us” and there was “them.” Once he was in the White House, the fear factor would prevail.

A new book examines the extraordinary decades-long campaign by Argentinean women to find their grandchildren.

President Donald Trump has announced a fifty-per-cent tariff on the country’s products, as retaliation for the prosecution of his political ally, Jair Bolsonaro. So far, Brazil has refused to roll over.

Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, has said that he wants to get mixed-martial-arts fighters to train his field agents. But a version of this is already happening, with law-enforcement agencies embracing Brazilian jiu-jitsu.

The rebrand of the Los Angeles Laker—who appeared on the cover of Men’s Health looking lean, buff, and bronze—makes sense. That doesn’t make it less sad.

The White House promised that tariffs would make America boom. But job growth has stalled and the President has been reduced to firing an official scorekeeper.

Presidential libraries preserve the records—and burnish the legacies—of America’s heads of state. Are they also corruption rackets?

The President’s campaign to bend the independent central bank to his will is straight out of the playbook of populist strongmen and will likely go on for years.