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How Dartmouth Became the Ivy League’s Switzerland

The school has attracted attention for its refusal to join the higher-ed resistance and, perhaps not coincidentally, for its avoidance of any direct sanctions by the Trump Administration.
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Profiles

A Family Doctor’s Search for Salvation

Instead of turning inward after the death of his son, Dr. Greg Gulbransen turned outward: toward documentary photography and people whose lives he might be able to save.
A Reporter at Large

Is the U.S. Ready for the Next War?

With global conflicts increasingly shaped by drones and A.I., the American military risks losing its dominance.
Personal History

What I Inherited from My Criminal Great-Grandparents

In working through the Winter case files, I often felt pinpricks of déjà vu: an exact turn of phrase, an absurdly specific expenditure.
The Sporting Scene

The Annual Agony of Yearning for a Homegrown Wimbledon Champion

Each year, Britain sends forth its best young men and women, no matter how good at tennis they actually are.

Commentary

The Lede

Chased by Climate Disaster in North Carolina

During Tropical Storm Chantal, a mother worried for the safety of her daughter, who is still grappling with the trauma of Hurricane Helene.
The Lede

Sick Children Will Be Among the Victims of Trump’s Big Bill

Cuts to federal health-care spending make it harder for doctors to make the oldest promise in medicine: that we will do no harm.
Comment

Flash Floods and Climate Policy

As the death toll climbs in Texas, the Trump Administration is actively undermining the nation’s ability to predict—and to deal with—climate-related disasters.
The Lede

Why a Devoted Justice Department Lawyer Became a Whistle-Blower

In the first Trump Administration, “they didn’t say ‘Fuck you’ to the courts,” Erez Reuveni said.

Conversations

Q. & A.

Can Trump Deport People to Any Country That Will Take Them?

A Yale Law professor on the Administration’s third-country deportation powers—and why the Supreme Court allowed it to send eight men to a prison in South Sudan.
Q. & A.

The War on Gaza’s Children

Without safe access to food, water, or medical care, survival has become a daily gamble for the region’s youngest residents.
Q. & A.

Inside the Mind of a Never Trump War Hawk

Why Eliot Cohen, an intellectual architect of the Iraq War, thinks Trump was right to strike Iran.
Q. & A.

What Have the U.S. and Israel Accomplished in Iran?

It remains to be seen how long the ceasefire will hold, but the Iranian regime is unlikely to end its nuclear program anytime soon.

From Our Columnists

Fault Lines

Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, and Three Conspiracy-Theory Theories

Trump rode the paranoid style of MAGA politics to power. Has he discovered that he can’t control it?
The Sporting Scene

Wimbledon in the Age of Sincaraz

Jannik Sinner avenged his loss at the French Open with a commanding victory over Carlos Alcaraz, in the latest chapter of a transcendent rivalry.
The Financial Page

How Much More “TACO” Madness Can the U.S. Economy Take?

The stock market’s record-setting run suggests Wall Street isn’t taking Donald Trump’s tariffs and threats seriously—but they are already harming the economy.
Fault Lines

Elon Musk’s “America Party” Might Be Worth Taking Seriously

The billionaire’s latest venture into U.S. politics points to cracks in the two-party system—even if it might flop.

More News

Letter from Trump’s Washington

Trump Has a Bad Case of Biden on the Brain

Distracted by the President’s constant bashing of his predecessor? Of course not.
Letter from Europe

The First World War, in Sharp Focus

An English chronicler of the trenches, and his wartime romance, captured in long-lost photographs.
Essay

Zohran Mamdani and Mahmoud Khalil Are in on the Joke

What it feels like to laugh when the world expects you to disappear.
Letter from the Southwest

Recovering the Dead in Texas’s Flash-Flood Alley

In the wake of disaster, people are relying on the volunteer fire department, the backbone of the Hill Country.
Letter from Trump’s Washington

Did Trump Really Just Break Up with Putin?

It’s never easy to tell which flip or flop the flip-flopper in the White House means.
The Lede

Is There Still Time to Be Hopeful About the Climate?

Scientists have long insisted that we can and must limit global warming to 1.5 degrees—and some still do, even as that grim milestone nears.
Annals of a Warming Planet

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment

In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
The Lede

The Texas Floods and the Lives Lost at Camp Mystic

There will be time to sort out whether the tragedy could have been averted, but the devastation is still unfolding, and it is already unfathomable.