new video loaded: The Pay-to-Play Patriotism of 2026 transcript Back transcript The Pay-to-Play Patriotism of 2026 As the United States prepares to turn 250, the Trump administration is turning the celebration into a pay-to-play spectacle where even a speaking role on the National Mall is up for sale. America is turning 250 years old, and […]
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Matthew Goldstein, a reporter for The New York Times who has focused on the financialization of the housing market, looks at a new executive order on housing by President Trump. By Matthew Goldstein, Melanie Bencosme, Sutton Raphael, Thomas Vollkommer, Nikolay Nikolov, June Kim, Joey Sendaydiego and Edward Vega February 11, 2026
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new video loaded: The President’s Personal Spy Chief transcript Back transcript The President’s Personal Spy Chief From joining an F.B.I. search of an election center to allegedly suppressing a whistleblower complaint, Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, is eroding the independence of our intelligence community, argues Times Opinion’s editor, Kathleen Kingsbury. It’s time to […]
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When Donald Trump won re-election in 2024, there was one campaign pledge that voters across the political spectrum felt the most confident he’d make good on: controlling illegal immigration and making the country safer. About 55 percent of Americans approved of Mr. Trump’s approach to immigration upon his return to the White House, my polling […]
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Matthew Rose, an Opinion editorial director, hosted an online conversation with three Opinion columnists. Matthew Rose: On Saturday, agents from the Border Patrol in Minneapolis shot and killed Alex Pretti, an American citizen. We don’t have a full accounting of what happened, but the available video evidence shows he was filming the agents with his […]
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement is obviously and technically an immigration enforcement agency. But when you look at what’s happening in Minnesota and across the country, this doesn’t look like immigration enforcement. “Can I go check a pulse?” “This is a school.” Immigration enforcement is largely an administrative issue. And so why do we have these […]
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new video loaded: Supreme Court to Weigh Trump’s Bid to Fire Lisa Cook <img src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/01/21/arts/Colby-Smith-Thumbnail/Colby-Smith-Thumbnail-jumbo.png?auto=webp&quality=75" data-testid="betamax-poster" sizes="(width The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments on Wednesday in the case of Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor whom President Trump is trying to fire. Our reporter Colby Smith describes the importance of Cook’s case for the […]
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Data obtained by The New York Times illustrates the differences between President Trump’s and President Biden’s approaches to deportations. Our data reporter Albert Sun describes what we found. By Albert Sun, Gilad Thaler, Melanie Bencosme, Joey Sendaydiego, Edward Vega, Jon Miller and Thomas Trudeau January 18, 2026
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new video loaded: The High Cost of ICE’s Low Standards transcript Back transcript The High Cost of ICE’s Low Standards By doubling its force while slashing training time, ICE has scaled up its culture of violence into an unrestrained and unaccountable machine. A lot happened this week. “Protests in Iran continued to grow today.” “The […]
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new video loaded: What are Trump’s Options in Iran? <img src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/01/14/world/middleeast/THUMBNAIL/THUMBNAIL-jumbo.jpg?auto=webp&quality=75" data-testid="betamax-poster" sizes="(width President Trump has said that “help is on the way” for Iranian protesters. Amid reports that thousands of the protesters have been killed, our national security correspondent David E. Sanger describes what some of Mr. Trump’s options might be. By David E. […]
Read MoreAbout 10 minutes into the astonishing news conference at which President Trump celebrated the lightning-strike operation to abduct Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, Trump wandered into a rambling disquisition on the success of American troops patrolling the streets of American cities. “I just have to congratulate our military,” he said, name checking Secretary of Defense Pete […]
Read MoreIt’s only the first full week of the year, and a lot has happened. “The U.S. military has seized the Venezuela-linked oil tanker.” “An ICE agent shot and killed a woman.” “The Trump administration claims the deadly attack was nothing more than a peaceful protest.” Here’s one thing you shouldn’t miss. By now, you’ve seen […]
Read MoreThe United States is pressuring the interim Venezuelan government to expel official advisers from China, Russia, Cuba and Iran, American officials said. Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, listed the Trump administration’s demands to Venezuela’s new leader, Delcy Rodríguez, in a classified meeting on Monday with senior congressional leaders. The U.S. officials, who were granted […]
Read MoreIn the end, Gov. Tim Walz said, his decision to end his bid for a third term as Minnesota’s governor came down to this: Facing a torrent of threats and taunts from the Trump administration over a fraud scandal that has plagued the state’s social services system, he concluded that abandoning his political campaign might […]
Read MoreThe Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel produced a signed memo declaring it lawful for President Trump to order the military operation that seized President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela over the weekend, according to officials familiar with the matter. The specifics of the memo are unclear. But Attorney General Pam Bondi promised members of Congress […]
Read MoreSecretary of State Marco Rubio has told lawmakers that President Trump plans to buy Greenland rather than invade it, while Mr. Trump has asked aides to give him an updated plan for acquiring the territory, U.S. officials said on Tuesday. Mr. Rubio made his remarks in a briefing on Monday with lawmakers from the main […]
Read MoreIt was a warm autumn afternoon in the Oval Office, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio was helping President Trump steer the administration’s discussions about Venezuela to a concrete military phase. The two men sat with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to consider how […]
Read MoreOver the past year, President Trump has engaged in a steady campaign to rewrite the history of Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, when his supporters, believing lies of a rigged election, smashed windows and doors and assaulted law enforcement officers. His revisionist history is taking on new significance ahead of this year’s midterm […]
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new video loaded: The Impact of Trump’s Slipping Approval Rating <img src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2025/12/03/us/politics/trump-approval-thumb/trump-approval-thumb-jumbo.jpg?auto=webp&quality=75" data-testid="betamax-poster" sizes="(width After months of holding steady, President Trump‘s approval rating has dipped over the past several weeks, according to a New York Times analysis of public polling. By Tyler Pager, Claire Hogan, Whitney Shefte and Stephanie Swart December 7, 2025
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new video loaded: Trump’s Shift on Afghan Immigrants <img src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2025/12/01/us/politics/Zolan_THUMBNAIL/Zolan_THUMBNAIL-jumbo.jpg?auto=webp&quality=75" data-testid="betamax-poster" sizes="(width Zolan Kanno-Youngs, a White House correspondent, describes how President Trump’s latest immigration restrictions, after the shooting of two National Guard members by a man whom the authorities described as an Afghan national, affect a community that traditionally has been considered an exceptional case. […]
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President Trump’s promise for “no tax on tips” has raised important practical questions for the Internal Revenue Service. What is the exact definition of a tip? Who typically receives them? Are photos of bare feet a type of pornography? Maybe we should back up. A sweeping tax cut that Republicans passed this summer created a […]
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The election interference case against President Trump in Georgia was dismissed last week, but the ghosts of the 2020 election are still looming over the state as next year’s midterms approach. Mr. Trump’s Justice Department has been investigating Fani T. Willis, the district attorney in Atlanta who brought criminal charges against him. Though the full […]
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When nearly 200 nations signed the 2015 Paris Agreement, acknowledging the threat of rising global temperatures and vowing action, many hoped that the era of climate denial was finally over. Ten years later it has roared back, arguably stronger than ever. As delegates wrapped the annual United Nations climate talks last Saturday, those who have […]
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A lot happened this week. “The U.S. has ramped up its military presence in the region.” “The case against former F.B.I. director James Comey may be in jeopardy.” “I grabbed that hand. I don’t give a hell where that hand’s been.” Here’s one thing you shouldn’t miss. On Tuesday, the House and Senate passed the […]
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new video loaded: Trump’s National Guard Blunder transcript Back transcript Trump’s National Guard Blunder A brief history of the National Guard in Washington. I’m announcing a historic action to “Trump must go now.” Rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse. “D.C.’s shadow senator raising concerns about what this could mean […]
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new video loaded: Behind the Vote to Release the Epstein Files <img src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2025/11/17/us/politics/karni-thumb-1/karni-thumb-1-jumbo.jpg?auto=webp&quality=75" data-testid="betamax-poster" sizes="(width The House approved a bill directing the Justice Department to release all files related to its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, in a near-unanimous vote. Hours later, Senator Chuck Schumer won unanimous agreement for the Senate to pass the measure as […]
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new video loaded: How to Make Sense of Law Enforcement in the Streets <img src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2025/10/27/us/politics/erden-thumb-1/erden-thumb-1-jumbo.jpg?auto=webp&quality=75" data-testid="betamax-poster" sizes="(width The variety of federal forces deployed to support President Trump’s mass deportation campaign and anticrime efforts continues to expand. Often, it can be difficult for the public to tell them apart, or to understand what powers each agency […]
Read Morenew video loaded: Epstein’s Emails About Trump <img src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2025/11/12/us/politics/eder-thumb-1/eder-thumb-1-jumbo.jpg?auto=webp&quality=75" data-testid="betamax-poster" sizes="(width Our investigative reporter Steve Eder provides context about Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship with President Donald Trump based on information from over 20,000 pages of documents from Epstein’s estate released by the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday. By Steve Eder, Claire Hogan, James Surdam, Stephanie Swart […]
Read Morenew video loaded: How Syria’s President Transformed His Image <img src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2025/11/10/arts/goldbaum-thumb-1/goldbaum-thumb-1-jumbo.jpg?auto=webp&quality=75" data-testid="betamax-poster" sizes="(width Syrian President Ahmed al-Shara’s meeting with President Trump in Washington signifies a new turn for al-Shara, a former Islamist rebel leader who was once designated by the United States as a terrorist with a $10 million bounty on his head. Our reporter […]
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new video loaded: Why Is Trump So Afraid of American Voters? transcript Back transcript Why Is Trump So Afraid of American Voters? President Trump raged after Democrats won multiple elections this week. And now he’s calling on lawmakers to take action: To do more gerrymandering, to outlaw mail-in ballots and to make voter ID laws […]
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As Zohran Mamdani was making history in New York City on Tuesday night, telling supporters at his victory party that “the future is in our hands,” Senator Chuck Schumer was far away on the sidelines, watching one of the biggest political moments in his hometown’s recent history from Washington, D.C. The Senate Democratic leader was […]
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