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Should Police Officers Be More Like U.F.C. Fighters?
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 Financial Page
Donald Trump’s War with Jerome Powell and the Fed Is Far from Over
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.
Comment
What to Do When the Supreme Court Rules the Wrong Way
The blows have been coming weekly, as Trump tries to ransack the Constitution. Yet recent Court history shows that what feels like the end can be a beginning.
Fault Lines
Are the Democrats Getting Better at the Internet?
There’s never been an inherent reason why the Party’s positioning requires so much of its online content to suck.
The Lede
When ICE Agents Are Waiting Outside the Courtroom
An asylum seeker and her children face the terrifying new reality of immigration hearings.
Letter from Trump’s Washington
Trump Redefines the Washington Scandal
In a Presidency where everything is an outrage, what does it say that MAGA’s revolt over the Jeffrey Epstein files is the one crisis that really might hurt him?
Q. & A.
The Political Motives Behind the Gaza Aid Catastrophe
As Palestinians continue to die of severe hunger, a former Israeli official explains what the latest plan is really meant to achieve.
The Lede
The Fight for Mexican Los Angeles
The city’s Mexican consul is trying to protect local immigrants, but there are limits to what he can accomplish.