Tag: trump

• War Heroes and Military Firsts Are Among 26,000 Images Flagged for Removal in Pentagon’s DEI Purge

  March 7, 2025

  References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and women and minorites are among the tens of… more ›

• Elon Musk’s Takeover Is Being Aided by a Trumpworld Power Couple

  March 2, 2025

  When President Donald Trump’s aides and advisers relay concerns about Elon Musk’s takeover of the federal government, they’re often given what’s intended to be a reassuring answer: Don’t worry, Stephen… more ›

• Looking Ahead To The 19th Century

  February 23, 2025

  The rules-based liberal international order, underwritten and guaranteed for decades by American might, has been consigned to the ashcan of history by the summary defection of its founding architect from… more ›

• Trump l’Oeil

  February 23, 2025

  I BEGAN WRITING this after I saw the photos of Donald Trump working at McDonald’s. Like many, I was struck by how much the images, with their bizarre aesthetics and surreal content,… more ›

• A Brief Guide to Trump and the Spectacle

  February 22, 2025

  ‘Television Was a Baby Crawling towards That Deathchamber.’ These words are by Allen Ginsberg, writing in 1961, the title of a poem anathematising America. ‘It is here, the long Awaited… more ›

• You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism

  February 20, 2025

  If there’s one thing I’d hoped people had learned going into the next four years of Donald Trump as president, it’s that spending lots of time online posting about what… more ›

• The Dirty Business That’s Stopping Climate Change

  February 19, 2025

  For the very first time in Switzerland, a major commodities trading firm was being tried in what serves as the country’s highest criminal court. The case was brought by a Swiss corruption… more ›

• Welcome, Podcasters! White House Wants New Media at the Press Briefing

  January 29, 2025

  In the delicate journalistic ecosystem of the White House’s James S. Brady Press Briefing Room, the seating chart is the be-all, end-all of status. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/business/media/white-house-press-briefing-podcasters-influencers.html more ›

• The China in Africa Podcast: Does Trump Help or Hurt China’s Diplomacy in Africa?

  January 24, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/7u3Qh2l Donald Trump roared back into power this week, signing dozens of executive orders on his first day that upended large parts of the U.S. foreign policy agenda. The… more ›

• Donald Trump Plays Church

  January 21, 2025

  It’s usually gauche to take pictures in church. But at St. John’s, the Episcopal Church just across a sedate Lafayette Square from the White House, photography is inevitable at least… more ›