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  1. In Elevating Stephen Miller, Trump Doubles Down on Hard-Line Agenda

    Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:39:51 -0000

    The new White House chief of staff is responsible for some of the most provocative policies of President Trump’s second term, as well as an aggressive approach to executive power.
  2. Susie Wiles Is the Latest Powerful Woman to Exit the Trump Administration

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 23:53:13 -0000

    A wave of high-ranking women have left the Trump administration in the past year. Many were replaced by men.
  3. What to Know About Stephen Miller, Trump’s New Chief of Staff

    Sat, 07 Nov 2026 02:56:14 -0000

    The architect of President Trump’s mass deportation campaign, Mr. Miller has been the public face of many of Mr. Trump’s immigration policies.
  4. How Elon Musk Frittered Away Nearly $500 Million on the Midterm Elections

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 21:05:42 -0000

    Behind the scenes, the world’s richest person spent a record amount over two years to bend the country’s politics to his will. He couldn’t.
  5. Democrats, Newly Ascendant, Begin a Fight to Shape the Party’s Future

    Sat, 07 Nov 2026 13:11:20 -0000

    At a moment of opportunity for the party, its long-feuding factions are seizing on the midterm results to make their case for tacking to the center or to the left.
  6. Turning Point Bet on the Midterms and Lost. Some Republicans Are Furious.

    Sat, 07 Nov 2026 10:02:07 -0000

    Candidates backed by the right-wing activist group did not fare well, and the results set off recriminations from establishment Republicans.
  7. The Good, the Bad and the Cringe: 10 Ads That Defined the Midterms

    Sat, 07 Nov 2026 10:03:35 -0000

    In a Democratic landslide election, here are the ads that stood out. Some were effective, while others backfired.
  8. Inside the Operation That Helped Ukraine Reverse Some Russian War Gains

    Sat, 07 Nov 2026 10:01:41 -0000

    After months of secrecy, Ukrainian commanders let New York Times journalists join them in bunkers and training grounds used to reverse some Russian territorial gains.
  9. U.S. Cleared Nvidia Chips to Chinese Firms With Empty Offices and Troubling Ties

    Sat, 07 Nov 2026 10:00:40 -0000

    The Commerce Department has approved dozens of Chinese companies to handle Nvidia’s H200 chips, some of which have ties to firms under sanctions over national security.
  10. China’s Top Spy Agency Recruited Woman Who Targeted Jensen Huang

    Sat, 07 Nov 2026 02:18:42 -0000

    A memo that circulated among U.S. policymakers cited intelligence that Alice Huang, a Chinese executive who developed a relationship with Nvidia’s leader, was an asset of Beijing’s Ministry of State Security.
  11. Illeana Douglas Looks Back on Hollywood’s Biggest ‘Cat Fight’

    Sat, 07 Nov 2026 13:55:57 -0000

    After publishing a book about the 1939 classic “The Women,” the actress and writer talks about her film career and her role in #MeToo.
  12. Democrats Need a Bold Governing Agenda

    Sat, 07 Nov 2026 13:45:35 -0000

    If Democrats rise to this moment, they can turn a single night’s victory into a new American promise.
  13. What Michelle Goldberg Learned From the Most Exciting Democrats

    Sat, 07 Nov 2026 12:56:13 -0000

    Michelle Goldberg reported on the Democrats’ most exciting campaigns. Here’s what she saw.
  14. Hunkering Down

    Sat, 07 Nov 2026 11:24:46 -0000

    The urge to hibernate comes on strong as the days get shorter. But there are good reasons to resist, at least a little.
  15. This Israeli Vows to Oust Netanyahu. Here’s How.

    Sat, 07 Nov 2026 12:42:56 -0000

    Gadi Eisenkot is poised to get a chance to form a new government, replacing Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister. But the obstacles are formidable.
  16. Breaking the Decade-Long Trump Fever

    Sat, 07 Nov 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    The President’s unique brand of lurid authoritarianism has finally lost appeal, and he has lost the plot.
  17. An Exiled Filmmaker’s Unsparing View of Contemporary Russia

    Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    Andrey Zvyagintsev’s “Minotaur” is the first independent feature to portray Russian life during the war with Ukraine.
  18. Did the World Just Gain Hundreds of Millions of Alzheimer’s Patients?

    Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    A new definition of Alzheimer’s includes people without symptoms. Experts are fiercely divided over whether that makes sense—and whether the new drugs really help.
  19. Why Immigration Agents Don’t Quit in Protest

    Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    How a culture of dehumanization and denial keeps ICE and Border Patrol personnel “at war with an enemy that does not fight back.”
  20. The Year Math Changed Forever

    Sun, 01 Nov 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    A.I. is solving problems that stumped the field for decades. Mathematicians look to Terence Tao for guidance on their altered world.
  21. What This Week’s Elections Mean for The Future of Elections

    Thu, 05 Nov 2026 23:29:54 -0000

    Democrats had a big night on Tuesday. What about democrats?
  22. After the Midterms, Washington Lawyers Up

    Wed, 04 Nov 2026 21:21:14 -0000

    With Democratic majorities in Congress, oversight, and its frustrations, return.
  23. How Democrats Are Reclaiming the Politics of Populism

    Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    In the midterms’ most competitive races, Democratic candidates are reviving an old Party message: that the Republicans are selling out to the highest bidder.
  24. Corruption on the Ballot

    Sun, 01 Nov 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    Corruption is always an issue, but this year will it finally catapult from a topic of chronic bellyaching to an actual mechanism for changing votes?
  25. Jamie Raskin Is Not Afraid to Impeach Trump Again

    Fri, 30 Oct 2026 18:00:00 -0000

    The Maryland congressman talks about how the Democratic Party is fighting the President’s “gangster state.”
  26. The Founder of Arab Americans for Trump Has Some Regrets

    Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:16:25 -0000

    As the President and his party launch a wave of bigoted attacks on Abdul El-Sayed, Bishara Bahbah reflects on what, exactly, Trump has delivered in his second term.
  27. How Macron Destabilized France

    Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:44:14 -0000

    Widespread protests against his policies were followed by violent riots across the country. Does this mean Marine Le Pen is all but certain to be the next President of France?
  28. Gina Hinojosa Thinks Texas Is Different This Time

    Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:04:47 -0000

    The Democratic gubernatorial candidate argues that crony capitalism, distrust of data centers, and attacks on public education have disenchanted voters enough to finally bring a blue wave to the state.
  29. Donald Trump’s Repudiation, America’s Revenge in the Midterms

    Wed, 04 Nov 2026 18:06:37 -0000

    Even J. D. Vance admits that the righteous blue wave in the midterms wasn’t a result of Republicans failing to show up—it’s that they showed up for the Democrats.
  30. Finally, the Beginning of Trump’s End

    Tue, 03 Nov 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    Reflections on a midterm campaign in which our octogenarian President waged war—against algae in the Reflecting Pool.
  31. Obama’s Great Skewering of Trump

    Thu, 29 Oct 2026 23:10:06 -0000

    The former President’s riff on Saddam Hussein, the Cheesecake Factory, and our gold-besotted leader was not only funny but politically brilliant.
  32. The World Series No One Wanted

    Mon, 26 Oct 2026 17:44:14 -0000

    A matchup between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Tampa Bay Rays was considered a “nightmare,” a bloodbath of small-ball hermeneutics. But the two old-school, thrifty teams have turned the Fall Classic into a showcase for what money can’t buy.
  33. A Cruise to End All Cruises

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    The Odyssey was supposed to last a lifetime. Instead, it was a floating fiasco.
  34. “Regime Change Came in Texas Before Tehran”

    Thu, 05 Nov 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    Donald Trump’s war of choice with Iran—a strategic debacle that has hurt ordinary Americans—is at the heart of a historic rebuke to his Presidency and his party.
  35. The Enduring Lesson of the Exploding Whale

    Thu, 05 Nov 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    In Winslow Crane-Murdoch’s film “Oh, Whale,” a journalist reflects on a weird, odorous story that defined his career—and on what it taught him about fate.
  36. The Night that Texas’s Seemingly Unchangeable Republican Identity Vanished

    Wed, 04 Nov 2026 20:27:15 -0000

    Texans have something to teach the country about fighting for an apparently hopeless cause; conservatives aren’t the only ones who remember the Alamo.
  37. Election 2026: Live Results Map | A Landslide Win For Democrats

    Wed, 04 Nov 2026 17:49:56 -0000

    The vote counts from key Senate, House, and gubernatorial elections around the country.
  38. Midterms Analysis: A Blue Wave Just Crashed on Trump

    Wed, 04 Nov 2026 06:16:09 -0000

    The Republican Party has only the President and his policies to blame for its historic losses in the 2026 midterms.
  39. Haley Stevens’s Chaotic Comments on Her Endorsement of Mike Rogers

    Tue, 03 Nov 2026 21:28:26 -0000

    During a mystifying election week in Michigan, the congresswoman reflects on her endorsement switch, people thinking she’s in “some sort of cahoot” with Republicans, and her fiancé—“the amazing and the one and only Jason Turkish.”
  40. The MAGA Faithful Eye the Exits

    Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    With polls suggesting a bleak midterms for the G.O.P., Trumpworld in D.C. is girding itself for congressional subpoenas and preparing pardon requests.