Donald Trump

He said that his order puts “an end to the war on coal.” In reality, it’s a war on basic knowledge of the harm that coal can do.

Officials working for the Trump Administration appear to be quietly sidelining an agreement meant to make government relationships with oil-and-gas companies more transparent.

April 2, 2017

The President’s latest executive order would scrap regulations critical to addressing climate change. But would it also, as he promises, put miners “back to work”?

March 29, 2017

How Robert Mercer exploited America’s populist insurgency.

At daily briefings, Sean Spicer calls on young journalists from far-right sites. The mainstream media sees them as an existential threat.

The problem in Washington is not a conspiracy against the President; it’s the President himself.

An investigation into the “substantial guy” who told the President that “Paris is no longer Paris.”

The President helped build a hotel in Azerbaijan that appears to be a corrupt operation engineered by oligarchs tied to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.

What lay behind Russia’s interference in the 2016 election—and what lies ahead?

After a month in office, he has already proved himself unable to discharge his duties. But the only people with real leverage over him won’t use it.

As the President rejects our foundational principles, all we can turn to is our instinct for shared defiance.

As Trump takes office, there is every reason to be on guard against a President whose attachment to constitutional norms seems episodic at best.

January 19, 2017

How do you fight an enemy who’s just kidding?

A rogue group of conservative thinkers tries to build a governing ideology around a President-elect who disdains ideology.

Inside a stunned White House, the President considers his legacy and America’s future.

The electorate has, in its plurality, decided to live in Trump’s world of vanity, hate, arrogance, untruth, and recklessness.

November 9, 2016

West Virginia used to vote solidly Democratic. Now it belongs to Trump. What happened?

His campaign tells us a lot about what kind of Commander-in-Chief he would be. 

Our reporters and fact-checkers have been working on a series of reported essays about the scale and depth of Donald Trump’s lies.

September 2, 2016

How the patrician couple came to have an outsized influence on a populist Presidential campaign.

Obama used the power of the pen to make policy. What would Trump do?

“The Art of the Deal” made America see Trump as a charmer with an unfailing knack for business. Tony Schwartz helped create that myth—and regrets it.

To call the presumptive Republican Presidential nominee a fascist of some variety is simply to use a historical label that fits.

July 14, 2016

At the candidate’s rallies, a new understanding of America emerges.

As Republicans struggle over whether to resist the candidate or to capitulate, they also face the Party’s biggest ideological crisis in fifty years.

Melania Trump is the exception to her husband’s nativist politics.

By stoking paranoia about immigration, he has found a following among far-right extremists.

How has this coddled scion of a New York real-estate baron emerged as a populist hero?

Why a celebrity proto-fascist with no impulse control is winning over the white working class.

Insiders loathe them; voters love them. Who will decide the future of the G.O.P.?

After writing a book about Benito Mussolini last year, an N.Y.U. professor began noticing the similarities between her book’s subject and Trump.

November 4, 2016

An exceptional nation would have better reflexes than this, would recognize the communicable nature of fear more quickly, would rally its immune defense more efficiently.

November 4, 2016

Trump clearly believes he can win the state, and he told his supporters that he was also going to win the election.

November 3, 2016

Donald Trump behaves exactly how you would expect an American fascist to act.

November 3, 2016

Despite his frequent lies, polls show that Americans view Trump as more honest than Hillary Clinton.

November 3, 2016

Clinton supporters point to James Comey, the media, and sexism to explain the latest poll numbers. They’re onto something, but they’re missing the bigger story.

November 2, 2016

Republicans have long used Presidential debates to show their support for the government program. Add this to the list of norms that Trump has broken.

November 1, 2016

In 2012, Corey Robin’s “The Reactionary Mind” recognized the philosophical affinities that would lead to the Republican embrace of Donald Trump in 2016.

November 1, 2016

At the opening of his new D.C. hotel, Trump professed an optimism that has been absent on the campaign trail.

October 27, 2016

If Trump believed that he still had a realistic shot at winning, Wednesday night’s debate was his opportunity to act Presidential. He didn’t.

October 20, 2016

Trump doesn't need to be a puppet of Putin to be a dangerous President. It is enough that he seeks to emulate his authoritarianism.

October 10, 2016

At a rally in western Colorado, the candidate prepares his followers to give up without giving in.

October 20, 2016

But it would be a mistake to think of Hillary Clinton’s strong performance as a blowout.

September 27, 2016

If news cycles were driven by issues of import, rather than what's new, Trump University would never leave the headlines.

September 7, 2016

If Trump was just cynically catering to the nativist right during the primaries, by now he would have integrated some mainstream Republican thinking into his position on immigration.

September 1, 2016

The truth, of course, is that the old Trump can read the polls, and he knows he’s headed for a heavy and ignominious defeat.

August 19, 2016

If Trump continues to stonewall, it’s clear that he’s doing so because that’s his choice, not his legal obligation.

August 10, 2016

Trump’s implication that gun owners might attack Hillary Clinton if she is elected President was irresponsible in more than just the obvious ways.

August 9, 2016

The attraction is mutual, but history shows who’s really using whom.

August 3, 2016

At his wedding to Melania, Trump’s high status in the tabloids and on TV was clearly respected by everyone.

August 1, 2016

Trump badly but predictably underestimated the parents of a Muslim Army captain who died serving the United States in Iraq.

August 1, 2016

Trump’s latest disruption of American politics at the highest level has stunned academics. But will the country care?

July 28, 2016

One of Trump’s most trusted sources for news trades heavily on wild conspiracy theories. Does he actually believe any of them?

June 23, 2016

After the tragedy in Florida, it feels indecent to acknowledge Trump’s comments—but their sheer ugliness reflects his empty character and the campaign to come.

June 12, 2016

It was once possible to laugh at Donald Trump’s obsessions without worrying that he might actually impose them on the country.

June 3, 2016

Donald Trump’s statements say more about his disregard for the rule of law than they do about Hillary Clinton or her e-mail server.

June 3, 2016

But will it be the candidate’s undoing?

June 2, 2016

The candidate says he plans to make a strong showing among Midwestern voters, but the numbers don’t add up.

June 1, 2016

Donald Trump’s harangues about the media, and reports of a third-party challenge from a political neophyte, made for a bizarre twenty-four hours.

June 1, 2016

His statements on the function of the judiciary reveal ignorance about how the Supreme Court works and a total absence of legal philosophy.

May 31, 2016

If Trump came to power, there is a decent chance that the American experiment would be over.

May 20, 2016

It will be debated for years, but any convincing explanation must acknowledge his talents as a demagogue and pugilist.

May 4, 2016

Cruz spent most of his time in Indiana arguing that Trump and Hillary Clinton were indistinguishable. The results point to the political, and the logical, weaknesses of this argument.

May 4, 2016

Thanks to some good old-fashioned reporting, we now have an idea of how little cash Trump has given away.

April 12, 2016

His Dadaist political exercises, designed to shock and command attention, have revealed the hypocrisies of the political class.

April 5, 2016

The insurgent candidates have run campaigns that seem tailored to the preferences of people who don’t normally go to the polls.

April 1, 2016

Few Latinos are supporting Trump. But one pro-Trump voter, John Castillo, explains his position.

March 20, 2016

When political parties fail to stop alarming candidates.

March 1, 2016

Trump’s rise isn’t just about his political incorrectness and independence.

February 11, 2016

The message is that Trump’s hate, his xenophobia and bigotry, it’s all a thousand per cent on purpose.

January 4, 2016

In a Profile written nearly two decades before his Presidential run, Trump was already contemplating how to present himself as a "doer and dealmaker."