Sunlight is pouring over the entire world,” the newly sworn-in president told America, as former presidents Bush, Clinton, Obama, and Biden looked on, without clapping.

President-elect Donald Trump held a massive rally in DC Sunday, mere hours before taking the oath of office as the 47th US president.

The Simpsons writer, Dan Greaney, had an eerie admission about the infamous episode that referenced Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump is swiftly breaching the traditional boundaries of presidential power as he returns to the White House, bringing

Trump’s “America First” philosophy is often described as a return to the kind of isolationism that prevailed between the two world wars. But that’s not quite accurate. He wants to stride the global stage. But he’s advocating a foreign policy where America is dominant in its own hemisphere and engages elsewhere selectively.

On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump issued a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, who ran the dark web marketplace Silk Road under the pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts.” Ulbricht has been serving a life sentence without parole since 2015, when he was convicted of multiple charges, including the distribution of narcotics.

Research on the role of US presidents has attempted to define how previous presidents rank compared to their peers. There is general agreement that the United States has had three truly great presidents – George Washington (1789-1797),

This article appears in the March 2025 print edition with the headline “Capitulation Is Contagious.”

The consensus that America should be a benign superpower, born out of the ashes after 1945, has gone, too. And Mr Trump wants more: to see America unleashed, freed from norms, from political correctness,

In this first episode of a new series, David Wallace-Wells joins Patrick Healy to examine what President Trump’s position on climate change tells us about how he plans to wield power more broadly.

His second inaugural address promised a “golden age,” but the ideas in it evoked the late 1800s more than any recent presidency.

As far as policy accomplishments are concerned, it could very well turn out to be as underwhelming as the first.