Read the inside story of how Columbia University’s board of trustees met in secret and opted to surrender to the Trump administration’s demands.

When the economic news is bad, Trump thinks he can just shoot the messenger. He has ordered the firing of the BLS commissioner after Friday’s job report.

Whatever their economic impact, Trump’s tariffs remain unpopular and Americans fear they’ll boost prices. It’s not what Trump needs in the headlines.

Jeffrey Epstein’s ex-girlfriend, currently in prison, is suddenly very in-demand with the Trump administration and was transferred to a new facility.

Donald Trump’s promise to make everyone rich feels as empty as the hundreds of thousands of new jobs we now know didn’t exist.

Gavin Newsom’s proposed special election in California to give Democrats new House seats will be expensive and politically perilous, but, Ed Kilgore writes, it’s the only way to offset Trump’s Texas power grab before the 2026 midterms.

To celebrate the return of the Presidential Fitness Test for kids, Trump invited Lawrence Taylor, a sex offender, to the White House.

In her first post-2024 interview, former Vice President Kamala Harris offered praise for Joe Biden, adding she wasn’t going to participate in the pile on against him.

The Smithsonian museum joins a growing list of institutions crumbling under pressure from the White House, erasing Trump’s two impeachments from an exhibit.

Ed Kilgore writes that Trump’s excesses will be returned in kind by Democrats when they retake power.

Trump’s pretend effort to release more Epstein material is a nuanced performance piece, more about appearances than genuine transparency.

The anti-hate organization used to fight for justice for all. Under Jonathan Greenblatt, it’s undertaken a war against anti-Zionism that has changed everything.

Trump is turning the White House into Mar-a-Lago. He plans to quickly add a new $200 million ballroom, effectively replacing the East Wing with the Trump Wing.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has a really strange way of convincing people it’s “ridiculous” to think Social Security program is under threat after talking about a ‘backdoor for privatizing’ it.

The Trump administration is posting what can only be described as coal porn in its pursuit of boosting the industry.

The Texas power grab of five U.S. House seats Trump is trying to engineer depends on consolidating Trump’s gains among Latinos in 2024 and transferring them down-ballot. It could all backfire.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris announced the upcoming release of her 2024 campaign memoir, sparking speculation that she’s open to a 2028 run for president.

Senator Josh Hawley, author of a bill to ban stock trading by the president and vice president, said he will do “whatever it would take” to Donald Trump happy with the legislation.

If there’s fire beneath the smoke of Trump’s Epstein files scandal or evidence of a cover-up, it could meaningfully impact public opinion. Or it could just confirm everyone’s priors.

After a Martha’s Vineyard pierogi vendor refused to sell to him, Epstein’s lawyer plans to sue a farmer’s market so that they must sell to him.

Mark Zuckerberg’s new AI manifesto is an attempt to wax poetic about the future like other AI CEOs. The result is both derivative and weird. Here’s John Herrman’s close read.