President Donald Trump unveiled his latest tariff plan last week on “Liberation Day,” which the administration said will restore the American Dream and spark an economic boon for U.S. workers. “American steel workers, auto workers, farmers and skilled craftsmen,” Trump said from the White House Rose Garden last Wednesday afternoon in his announcement. “We have … Read more
Activism / March 18, 2025 The Great Firing continues—and the next round of layoffs will reveal how much power over public lands the Trump administration will cede to corporations. Ad Policy Protesters hold signs during a national day of action against Trump administration’s mass firing of National Park Service employees at Yosemite National Park, … Read more
You can’t make America great again by wrecking the government. Ad Policy Honey, we crashed the economy! Handing the keys to our productive capacity over to monopolists, speculators and rich reactionaries with big egos will not make America great again. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images) What to make of the blur of news, revolutionary … Read more
Politics / March 21, 2025 It’s only a matter of time before the administration expands its use of the Alien Enemies Act to ever-greater numbers of people from ever-greater numbers of countries. Ad Policy On March 18, 2025, hundreds of people marched in Caracas to demand the release and repatriation of 238 Venezuelans sent … Read more
Opinion columnist Michelle Goldberg and contributing Opinion writer Frank Bruni join Patrick Healy, the deputy Opinion editor, at the halfway mark of President Trump’s first 100 days in office, to reflect on how he is changing the country. Below is an edited, condensed transcript of an episode of “The Opinions.” We recommend listening to it … Read more
In the five years Quinn has worked as a licensed counselor, they have seen the astonishing positive impact that gender-affirming care can have on young patients’ lives. “You talk to these kids, and they can have such complicated experiences with depression and social anxiety, and then you start providing hormones and gender-affirming care, and you … Read more
Society / February 21, 2025 When hospitals suddenly stop treatment for trans patients, real people are harmed immediately. “I was sent links to suicide hotlines instead of a prescription,” one person told us. Ad Policy People march past NYU Langone Health during a rally demanding that NYU Langone commit to providing gender-affirming care for … Read more
February 21, 2025 All if it is meant to disorient and overwhelm us. The question is: How are we to navigate all that excrement? Ad Policy President-elect Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Vice President-elect JD Vance attend the 125th Army-Navy football game in Landover, Maryland, on December 14, 2024. (Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images) … Read more
February 17, 2025 The US government has begun to shuttle immigrants from the United States to Gitmo, post photos of them in shackles, and lock them away. Ad Policy The Department of Homeland Security released photos on February 4 of the first flight of migrants to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. (Department of Homeland Security) President … Read more
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s efforts to shrink the federal government, launched as the deadly Palisades and Eaton fires burned across Los Angeles, … Read more