1. tremendous content
    Watch Trump Pretend He’s Not Obsessed With Time MagazineHe quipped, “Is Time magazine still in business?” in response to the Elon Musk cover. Trump was named “Person of the Year” eight weeks ago.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  2. what we know
    What Elon Musk and DOGE Are Doing to the Federal GovernmentThe billionaire and his cronies continue to move fast and break things. Here are their boldest attacks thus far.
    By Chris Stanton
  3. early and often
    Russ Vought pressing a button.
    Russell Vought Is the Glue Between Elon Musk and RepublicansThe newly confirmed co-author of Project 2025 is a quiet radical with enormous power, who can help keep DOGE and Congress in sync and in line.
    By Ed Kilgore
  4. the law
    The ‘Make Me’ PresidencyTrump’s new approach is to act first and let them try to stop him with lawsuits later.
    By Elie Honig
  5. early and often
    Paula White
    Trump Blesses His Kind of Christians at Prayer BreakfastAfter squabbling with Catholics and liberal Protestants, Trump basked in the love of right-wing Evangelicals and boosted their causes.
    By Ed Kilgore
  7. early and often
    The Week ‘Democrats Must Work With Trump’ DiedThe new administration is running roughshod over Congress, breaking laws wantonly, and empowering Elon Musk. Democrats have had enough.
    By Ed Kilgore
  8. tremendous content
    Nepotism Pioneer Lara Trump to Host Fox News ShowFox News previously dropped Lara as a paid contributor due to her ties to the Trump campaign. But media ethics are so 2022.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  9. early and often
    GOP Governors Cheer As Trump Prepares to Cut Their BudgetsState Republicans are rebranding their efficiency exercises as just like Musk’s DOGE. It won’t seem cool when the cuts come down from Washington.
    By Ed Kilgore
  10. politics
    The World Reacts to Trump’s Proposed Gaza TakeoverAs President Trump floated a possible American takeover of the Gaza Strip, leaders throughout the world have rejected the controversial proposal.
    By Nia Prater
  11. foreign affairs
    Trump’s Gaza Plan Is Ethnic Cleansing for IsraelHe’s doing exactly what Benjamin Netanyahu and the far right wants.
    By Ross Barkan
  12. early and often
    Why Trump’s Plan to Kill the Education Department May FailCuts to special education and schools that serve disadvantaged kids won’t go over well outside the MAGA base.
    By Ed Kilgore
  13. politics
    Capitol Hill
    Republicans Fall Behind Nominating Tulsi GabbardAfter squeaking by in a key vote, Gabbard is seemingly on a glide path to confirmation.
    By Nia Prater
  14. tremendous content
    Donald Trump Campaigns For President In Pennsylvania
    Trump to Attend Super Bowl Because We Can’t Have a Moment’s PeaceThinking you’ll try to avoid talking politics at your Super Bowl watch party next Sunday? Think again!
    By Margaret Hartmann
  15. politics
    Senate Holds Confirmation Hearings For HHS Secretary Nominee Robert Kennedy
    Key Republican Falls in Line Behind RFK Jr.Kennedy’s HHS nomination advanced to the full Senate after Republican senator Bill Cassidy, a potential swing vote, voted in his favor.
    By Nia Prater
  16. inquiries
    ICE Has Restaurant Workers TerrifiedNobody is sure exactly what’s going on, but any threat of deportation is too grave to ignore.
    By Chris Crowley
  17. politics
    A truck drives into United States at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry, on the U.S.-Mexico border.
    Canada Tariffs Delayed Too: Trade War UpdatesOnly the new China tariff is still set to start Tuesday, at least for now.
    By Chas Danner
  18. early and often
    Elon Musk
    Elon Musk May Have Your Social Security NumberThe billionaire and his DOGE agents were granted full access to the Treasury’s federal payments system, and nobody knows to what end.
    By Chas Danner
  19. foreign interests
    People demonstrate in support of workers at the U.S. Agency for International Development in Washington, on Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times)
    Inside Elon Musk’s Killing of USAIDSaboteurs, tears, and a last-minute push to save lives.
    By Jonathan Guyer
  20. democrats
    Relitigating 2024 Won’t Help Democrats Fight Trump TodayDemocrats need to avoid making last year’s mistakes in 2028. But none of it may matter if they don’t unite to fight Trump right now.
    By Ed Kilgore
  21. early and often
    Democrats May Shut Down Government to Keep Trump From Gutting ItRepublicans need Democratic votes to keep the government open. This is leverage Democrats could use to rein in Trump and Musk’s power grab.
    By Ed Kilgore
  22. just asking questions
    ‘We’ve Got an Enormous Crisis on Our Hands’Public-policy expert Don Kettl discusses Trump and Musk’s blitzkrieg attack on the federal workforce and where it goes next.
    By Benjamin Hart
  23. poll position
    Trump Approval Rating Looks Fragile at Start of Second TermThe 47th president is more popular than he’s been for most of his political career. But it won’t take much to bring back bad vibes.
    By Ed Kilgore
  24. early and often
    Democrats See Opportunity in Unpopular Trump Spending CutsFocusing on the concrete consequences of Donald Trump’s funding freezes, rather than abstract arguments about democracy, could be the way forward.
    By Ed Kilgore
  25. early and often
    Stephen Miller
    Trump’s ‘Shock and Awe’ Looks More Like Chaos and ConfusionFrom the funding freeze to the federal-employee buyout, the White House doesn’t seem to know what its own teams are doing.
    By Ed Kilgore
  26. early and often
    Trump’s DEI Witch Hunt Reaches a New LowVerbally blaming Obama, Biden, and diversity programs for a plane crash wasn’t enough: Trump repeated his baseless allegations in an executive order.
    By Ed Kilgore
  27. d.c. plane crash
    Trump Response to Plane Crash: Blame Obama, Biden, and DEIHe started with a heartfelt “NOT GOOD!!!” post on Truth Social. Things went downhill from there.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  28. early and often
    Did Backlash Really Kill the Trump Funding Freeze?Democrats are taking credit for ginning up a public reaction to a funding “pause.” But this is just the first of many battles.
    By Ed Kilgore
  29. early and often
    A Weird Confirmation Hearing Even for RFK Jr.Botched answers and baby onesies.
    By Ben Jacobs
  30. politics
    Menendez Tells Judge He’s Lost Everything, Gets 11 YearsThe former New Jersey senator was finally sentenced after a federal jury convicted him on bribery charges last July.
    By Nia Prater
  31. early and often
    Office of Personnel Management
    Federal-Worker Buyouts May Make Government As Broken As XMusk tried a similar scheme after his takeover of Twitter. What could go wrong with applying it to millions of federal workers?
    By Ed Kilgore
  32. we’ll do it live
    Dems Grill RFK Jr. on Vaccines, Abortion in Testy HearingPresident Trump’s pick for Health and Human Services secretary was confronted with his history of vaccine skepticism and other views.
    By Intelligencer Staff
  33. early and often
    Trump Thinks He Has a Mandate to Break the LawTrump is using false claims about the size and meaning of his 2024 victory to justify his power grab.
    By Ed Kilgore
  34. early and often
    Trump’s Blatantly Illegal Funding Freeze Causes Nationwide ChaosBut a judge put a temporary halt to the freeze until constitutional questions about its legality can be resolved.
    By Ed Kilgore
  35. politics
    Caroline Kennedy Calls RFK Jr. a ‘Predator’ Ahead of HearingIn a letter and video, the former ambassador urged lawmakers to oppose her cousin’s nomination, warning that he is “addicted to attention and power.”
    By Nia Prater
  36. early and often
    US-POLITICS-TRUMP-INAUGURATION
    Why a Divided America Needs a ‘Deep State’An electorate that can’t make up its mind on which party to entrust with power makes those faceless, despised bureaucrats our only hope for stability.
    By Ed Kilgore
  37. early and often
    Make America Great Again Victory Rally At Capital One Arena
    For MAGA, the Line Between God and Trump Has BlurredConversion stories and moments of revelation were once reserved for a higher power. Now they’re political.
    By Sarah Jones
  38. politics
    Will Tulsi Gabbard Be Confirmed to Top Intelligence Role?Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence, who faces confirmation hearings this week, may be his most at-risk Cabinet pick.
    By Nia Prater
  39. early and often
    J.D. Vance Goes After His Own Church on ImmigrationIn a harsh attack on Catholic bishops for criticizing mass deportation, the veep is intensifying his administration’s feud with Christian clergy.
    By Ed Kilgore
  40. politics
    New York City Mayor Eric Adams Delivers State Of The City Address
    Adams Vague About Health Problems Keeping Him Out All WeekThe mayor will have a limited public schedule this week as he undergoes medical tests and attends doctors’ appointments after feeling unwell.
    By Nia Prater
  41. just asking questions
    Could the Supreme Court Back Trump on Birthright Citizenship?Law professor Gerard Magliocca on the multiple reasons Trump’s executive order will likely fail.
    By Nia Prater
  42. social studies
    The Cultural Ascendancy of the New Young RightAmong the gleeful, confident, and casually cruel Trumpers who, after conquering Washington, have their sights set on the rest of America.
    By Brock Colyar
  43. politics
    US President Donald Trump steps off Air Force One upon arrival at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada, on January 24.
    A Brief Trade War and Other Weekend Political NewsTrump won a spat with Colombia, suggested a Gaza “clean out,” and purged 15 inspectors general.
    By Intelligencer Staff
  44. early and often
    All That GlittersHistorical greatness and a MAGA crack-up both seemed possible in Trump’s first week back in the White House.
    By David Freedlander
  45. politics
    Pete Hegseth Narrowly Confirmed by Senate as Defense SecretaryThree GOP senators, including Mitch McConnell, voted against Trump’s embattled nominee, forcing J.D. Vance to break the tie.
    By Nia Prater and Chas Danner
  46. politics
    ICE Agents Detain American Citizens in Newark RaidIn a statement, Newark mayor Ras Baraka said ICE agents detained lawful citizens during a raid on a local business, calling it an “egregious act.”
    By Nia Prater
  47. early and often
    Trump Needs Huge Safety-Net Cuts to Pay for His AgendaFiscal math, the leverage enjoyed by fiscal hawks, and a second chance for repealing Obamacare could all mean big-time cuts for 2025.
    By Ed Kilgore
  48. early and often
    Why Trump Isn’t Stressing About Losing GOP Votes for HegsethRepublicans have enough of a cushion to sustain defections from the likes of Collins and Murkowski.
    By Ed Kilgore
  49. the law
    The Power of Pardons (to Distract)Trump’s executive orders, and the legal battles they’ve started, will ultimately matter more than his January 6 pardons.
    By Elie Honig
  50. early and often
    Trump’s War on DEI Opens the Door to Jim Crow’s ReturnDoes he think civil-rights protections are “woke”?
    By Ed Kilgore
  51. early and often
    Daddy’s HomeViolent masculinity is shaping the Trump administration.
    By Sarah Jones
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