Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and until recently a close adviser to US President Donald Trump, has announced the formation of a new political party called the America Party. The move follows a dramatic split between the two over Trump’s controversial tax-and-spending bill, which Musk says will bankrupt the country.The Tesla and SpaceX CEO […]
There is agreement among Democrats that the party had a problem on immigration and border security in the 2024 election, but there’s no consensus on how to fix it. Lisa Lerer, a national political correspondent for The New York Times, describes how the party got here. Source link
The New York Times Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak recaps this Supreme Court term, which was defined by a disproportionate amount of emergency docket cases. Liptak explains why these cases tended to go in the Trump administration’s favor. Source link
Over the past week, President Trump claimed he would make a decision about Iran in “two weeks” and repeatedly pressed it to come to the negotiating table. But the swiftness of the attack on Saturday night suggests that plans were underway after Israel began its bombing campaign against Iran a little more than a week […]
When President Trump took office, U.S.A.I.D. was one of the first agencies to be dismantled in the name of efficiency. Amy Schoenfeld Walker, a New York Times reporter and graphics editor who has been tracking the foreign aid cuts and restorations since they began in February, shares what she’s learned through her reporting. Source link
President Trump’s executive orders have sought to reframe the history of race and culture in America. Erica L. Green, a White House correspondent for The New York Times, describes how the orders have led to the erasing of history of the Black experience. Source link
New York Times reporter Ana Swanson reports from the Los Angeles Port, the largest port in the Western Hemisphere as well as the place that first saw the signs of Trump’s tariff war. The Port of Los Angeles is significant because of our trade relationship with China in particular, which is why The Trump administration’s […]
Demonstrations against the Trump administration’s immigration policies have been largely peaceful in Los Angeles, but tensions flared in a few pockets of isolated protests after President Trump mobilized troops to the city. Shawn Hubler, the Los Angeles bureau chief for The New York Times, talks with Katrin Bennhold, a senior writer, about what she’s seen […]
Livia Albeck-Ripka, a New York Times reporter based in Los Angeles, describes how she was one of the reporters struck by crowd control munitions. Experts say that some aggressive measures used by the authorities in the Los Angeles protests have violated their own policies, federal policies and injunctions put into place after the George Floyd […]
Hamed Aleaziz, a New York Times immigration reporter, traveled to Miami to observe how immigrant arrest operations have changed under pressure from the Trump administration. Source link
