"Iran has learned the lessons of American foreign policy. It has used the tools at its disposal to exacerbate risk, forcing private actors to become unwitting tools of its statecraft." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/o...

"Mr. Lumumba’s overthrow and assassination was one of the Cold War’s great crimes — a conspiracy involving White House officials, C.I.A. spooks, U.N. diplomats, Congolese separatists, and, yes, Belgian envoys." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/o...

"On darker days, I find myself turning to a more thoroughgoing narrative: that Trump is the fulfillment of what America has always been — a self-satisfied nation, granted license by its myths about providence and exceptionalism to do whatever it wants." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/o...

How Can America Be So Miserable When It’s So Rich? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/o...

"The Trump administration is pressuring Ukraine to surrender the part of the eastern Donbas region that the Ukrainian Army still controls,..." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/w...

"When Representative Andy Ogles, Republican of Tennessee, wrote on social media earlier this month that 'Muslims don’t belong in American society' and that 'pluralism is a lie,' Democrats denounced his comments." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/u...

"The war in Iran will lead to a surge in inflation this year, as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz pushes up prices for oil, gas and other commodities, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said on Thursday." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/b...

"I want to cry about the plight of our United States. Our democracy has lost its way." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/o...

For Putin, the War in Iran Changed Everything www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/o...

"A vivid illustration of the way that President Trump has degraded the nation’s political discourse will be on view when the Senate Judiciary Committee holds its next hearing on Wednesday on his nominees to the federal courts." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/o...

"Neither Trump nor his aides, according to recent reporting, planned for Iran to target shipping and close the Strait of Hormuz. They also do not seem to have planned for serious and sustained retaliation against America’s gulf state allies." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/o...

“'Salzburg is no place for my talent,' Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart once wrote of his Austrian hometown. In fact, his family spent much of its time there making plans to get out." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/a...

"Kate Marvel, a widely known climate scientist and author, has resigned from her position at NASA, citing the Trump administration’s attacks on climate science in the United States." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/c...

"The SAVE America Act, which President Trump has declared his top legislative priority and the key to his party winning the midterm elections, may be beyond saving." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/u...

"For the second time, a federal appeals court has backed the Trump administration’s practice of arresting undocumented immigrants inside the United States and then holding them without bond,..." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/u...

Iran War Live Updates: Tehran Dismisses Cease-Fire Offer but Signals Openness to Talks www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

"Maybe most Americans haven’t viewed President Trump’s threats to take over Greenland, Denmark’s overseas territory, as terribly serious. But for at least a few intense days in January, many Danes, Greenlanders and Europeans did." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/o...

"The baleful influence of moneyed interests on politics has been with us for so long that we forget how much it can distort policy-making." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/o...

Minnesota sued the Trump administration for access to evidence regarding the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Local and state investigators alleged in the lawsuit that they have been stonewalled by federal officials.

"The Trump administration has quietly killed an effort that would have helped secure America’s future in the crucial semiconductor industry." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/o...

‘Everything After This Will Be Harder’: Gen. Stanley McChrystal on Iran www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/o...

"Rather than leading the free world, the United States is striding across the globe seemingly free of restraint, forethought or strategy, exerting its power because it can." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/o...

"Boston University removed Pride flags that were displayed in campus buildings this month, angering professors who believe school leaders may be suppressing expression because they fear the Trump administration." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/u...

"Law enforcement officials in Minnesota sued the federal government on Tuesday, seeking evidence that could be used to prosecute agents involved in three separate shootings during an immigration enforcement crackdown this year." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

"What was once a win-win has the markings of a lose-lose. Future administrations may find themselves spending years picking up the pieces of an alliance that they conclude grew too close." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/o...

"Yes, President Trump’s attacks on electric vehicles, renewable power and fuel-efficiency rules are awful. But nobody’s really stopping you from buying electric vehicles, installing solar panels or using less fuel." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/o...

"The journalists claimed in their complaint that Mr. Trump’s political appointees had interfered with editorial decisions of Voice of America reporters and editors, violating a safeguard Congress set out in law called the 'firewall' that protects their independence." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/u...

"The energy crisis caused by the Iran war is worse than the combined effect of the oil shocks in the 1970s, the leader of the International Energy Agency said on Monday, warning that it would take time to resolve even if the war were to end soon." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/w...

“'These ballot seizures are setting a dangerous precedent,' Gowri Ramachandran, director of the elections and government program at the Brennan Center for Justice, wrote on social media." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/u...

"Courts can articulate principles; they cannot supply the democratic energy that gives those principles force. A constitutional order ultimately depends less on what judges are willing to say than on what people are willing to do." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/o...

"Power does not grow out of the barrel of a gun, cruelty is not the same as strength, and a politics built on such ideas promises ruin, delusion about the limits of our power and a betrayal of the promise of our founding." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/o...

"A group representing journalists who cover the Defense Department is seeking the immediate restoration of press access for its members after a federal judge ruled on Friday that key parts of the department’s media policy were unconstitutional." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/b...

"A constitutional politics for the left must, in other words, be backed by a mass politics of legislative supremacy. In a largely atomized society of shattered civic bonds, this is much easier said than done." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/o...

'President Trump has his own ideas about American power, American voters, and American enemies. On 'The Opinions,' the writer Michelle Cottle and the columnists Jamelle Bouie and David French argue that unfortunately Trump misunderstands all three." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/o...

"Mr. Trump is not making it. Instead, he has lied about the reasons for the war and about its progress, in an apparent attempt to disguise his poor planning and the war’s questionable basis." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/o...

"Inside Kristi Noem’s spacious office on the second floor of the Department of Homeland Security’s headquarters, where a painting of the secretary astride a horse decorated the wall, Corey Lewandowski would hold court." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/u...

"The Pentagon has requested $200 billion (more than $1,400 per American household) to fund the war, but even that understates the total cost." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/o...

"The Pentagon has requested $200 billion (more than $1,400 per American household) to fund the war, but even that understates the total cost." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/o...

"Ever since President Trump began what he now delicately calls his 'excursion' into Iran, Washington has been consumed by the question of when he would call it a day — even if many of his war goals remain unaccomplished." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/u...

"Pediatric emergency medicine and intensive care are struggling. Children’s hospitals are facing work force shortages and a critical lack of funding.Unlike in the era Dr. Milhoan refers to, many doctors today have never seen a measles or polio case in their practice." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/o...

5 Places Where the Iran War Could Get Worse www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"It would be next to impossible for American and Israeli Special Forces to land in hostile territory and easily extricate or destroy Iran’s fissile material." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/o...

‘Once and for All’ Means Never www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/o...

Trump Administration Live Updates: Cal State System Challenges President’s Order on Transgender Athletes www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

“'This move is indefensible and unsupported by the facts and the law,' said Kristen Clarke, who was the head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division when the case was brought, responding to Friday’s motion." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

"The Trump administration has declared a wartime emergency to bypass Congress and push through more than $23 billion in weapons sales to allies in the Middle East,..." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

"Republicans on Capitol Hill have given President Trump wide latitude to wage war on Iran with no congressional approval or limits." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

"He spoke of 'overwhelming force' and the U.S. military’s unmatched ability to rain 'death and destruction from above' on its 'apocalyptic' Iranian foes." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

Republicans sue for right to make Nazi salutes www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/03/repu...

"The attacks against Islam and Muslims from Mr. Trump and other Republicans are shameful. They are filled with lies. They deserve denunciation from all Americans, regardless of politics or religion." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/o...