January 19, 2025
Politics
January 19, 2025
The Art of the Image: Trump as His Own Executive P…
Not long after Donald J. Trump surrendered himself for booking at an Atlanta jail in 2023, he told a clutch of allies and advisers about his experience posing for America’s first presidential mug shot.
January 19, 2025
C.I.A.’s Chatbot Stands In for World Leaders
Understanding leaders around the world is one of the C.I.A.’s most important jobs. Teams of analysts comb through intelligence collected by spies and publicly available information to create profiles of leaders that can predict
January 19, 2025
Why the Supreme Court Upheld a Ban on TikTok
A unanimous Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law that effectively bans the wildly popular app TikTok in the United States starting on Sunday, Jan. 19. Adam Liptak, who covers the Supreme Court for
January 19, 2025
George Washington’s Inaugural Coat on Display at M…
Scholars were only recently able to establish that this coat was, in fact, the one Mr. Washington wore at his inauguration, said Adam T. Erby, Mount Vernon’s curator of fine and decorative arts. The
January 19, 2025
Under Trump’s Big Tent, Republicans Are Starting t…
Democrats have long been viewed as the big-tent party — a proudly noisy collection of differing views and competing interests, often prompting headlines describing them as “in disarray.” Now, Donald J. Trump’s commanding victory
January 19, 2025
‘The Interview’: Curtis Yarvin Says Democracy is D…
For a long time, Curtis Yarvin, a 51-year-old computer engineer, has written online about political theory in relative obscurity. His ideas were pretty extreme: that institutions at the heart of American intellectual life, like
January 19, 2025
Trump Inauguration Schedule: Key Events and Ceremo…
President-elect Donald J. Trump will host a series of events around the nation’s capital for his second presidential inauguration, feting a wide array of donors, supporters and incoming members of his new administration over
January 19, 2025
How Antony Blinken, America’s Top Diplomat, Became…
Making his final trip as America’s top diplomat last week, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken arrived in Paris, his former hometown, to a hero’s welcome. France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, proclaimed Mr. Blinken “an
January 19, 2025