Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Renee Good’s vehicle after an immigration agent fatally shot her, but Trump administration officials ordered them to stop investigating. About a dozen prosecutors have since resigned, leaving the Minnesota U.S. attorney’s office in turmoil.

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...

Watch this, it's astonishing.

Trump now demands $1B from Harvard www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Binance is effectively paying 20% annual interest to holders of a Trump family-linked stablecoin, David Kirkpatrick reports in the New Yorker. The circulation volume of the stablecoin, World Liberty Financial's USD1, has since risen from $2 billion to $5 billion. www.newyorker.com/news/a-repor...

If you want to understand Trump's governing style, forget James Monroe, Metternich or Machiavelli. Think Henry VIII and Emperor Charles V. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

How the White House is doctoring photos to spread disinformation and smear citizens. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...

The Global Economy’s Warning Signals Are Kerflooey.....it's as if everyone were to start speeding up at a flashing light instead of slowing down. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/b...

If a university student group had celebrated Charlie Kirk being killed, complete with a graphic made from an actual picture of the killing, the whole lot of them would have been expelled before the ink on the digital story was dry.

Another little process of good government, mandated by law, broken by this administration’s whim. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Opinion| Trump’s approach to foreign policy is not just chaos or an updated version of 19th-century #great-power competition, write Stacie Goddard and Abraham Newman. “He is pursuing something more out of the #16th-century, what we call #neoroyalist #international #politics.”

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

A new Times video analysis breaks down the flawed and lethal actions by federal agents in the killing of Alex Pretti. Watch our visual investigation. nyti.ms/3YXeODB

My latest -- Record Debt in the World’s Richest Nations Threatens Global Growth www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/b...

As federal agents stormed Minneapolis and residents banded together to protect their own, Charles Homan saw a dystopian future become reality. “The federal agents looked more like a platoon of soldiers navigating a hostile foreign capital than conventional law enforcement in an American city.”

Trump said that he closed his eyes during those meetings because they were “boring as hell.” trib.al/PvFCK1x The president previously claimed to be “resting” or “blinking” his eyes, despite having fallen asleep multiple times in full view of the press and public.

Videos verified by The New York Times show the man federal agents shot and killed in Minneapolis on Saturday was holding a phone, not a gun, before the agents took him to the ground and shot him. At least 10 shots appear to have been fired within five seconds. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

Greenland is not about great power competition. So what is going on…neo-royalism. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

The Coming Trump Crackup www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/o...

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @philtinline.bsky.social and @patcohen.bsky.social on the day's big stories, and our On This Day historical series reflects on the tyrant's dilemma of when to scarper for the airport. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Trump is making the protection racket obvious. This is not spheres of influence. It is about dominance and extraction. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

When it comes to the economy, are the Europeans sometimes their own worst enemy? The newly signed trade pact between the EU and South American is derailed. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...

We already knew that Trump had completely reshaped the federal courts, but these stats are incredible. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...

Yale Law School, what are you even doing there?

With the world's eyes on US oil interests, let's not forget who benefits: The richest of the rich. Our research shows: 50% of the record fossil fuel profits in 2022 went to the wealthiest 1% of US Americans, the bottom 50% only received 1%. Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

1/”My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me...I don’t need international law.” A key feature of a neo-royalist order is the rise of personal leaders. Decisions are made by the few for the few. And justified by exceptionalis. Not rules. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

Good line here by @patcohen.bsky.social 👌

While Europe tries to extend an era of cooperation, Trump has show he prefers coercion. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/b...

There's a much higher degree of risk in the global economy and financial system than is usual. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...

Every country is Europe is facing the challenge of building up their armies. A Draft or Volunteers? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @patcohen.bsky.social and Alexander Görlach on Trump's apparent Epstein u-turn and the day's other stuff, plus some words for the late, great Todd Snider, and an excerpt from the session he recorded for us in 2012. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Updated: Our tracking guide with the Pentagon’s latest lethal strike on a boat suspected of drug trafficking. Three men were killed in the Caribbean Sea, Defense Secretary Hegseth posted last night, raising the toll to at least 70 killed in this bombing campaign. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Would Elon Musk Work Harder for $1 Trillion Than $1 Billion? ... Yale researchers found Musk's polarizing behavior caused Tesla sales to drop 67-83% -- equivalent to 1-1.26 million more vehicles. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/b...

Are Wealth Taxes the Best Way -- or maybe the only way to Tax the Ultra Rich? My latest. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/b...

My latest on how Trump’s trade war with China catches the world in its crossfire www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/b...

Yellen not at all pulling her punches in this op-ed for the FT www.ft.com/content/d2ea...

Two key documents from the Trump administration aimed at revoking the long-standing finding that climate change is dangerous were filled with errors, bias and distortions, according to dozens of scientists surveyed by The Associated Press. apnews.com/article/clim...

This action by Lisa Cook is courageous, principled, and deserves broad support.

Now they're just saying the quiet part out loud. *Are America's journalists going to pay attention?* This is being openly touted by MAGAworld as a mechanism to target the opposition (as we all know). A way to punish, smear, and deter opponents. Mask off Maybe the media shouldn't be dupes about it?

The Fed fights back.

Will bigger defense budgets will create meaningful, long-term economic growth or mostly pump up the stocks of weapons manufacturers? Here's what makes the difference. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/b...

“I don’t know how to put a business plan together that makes any sense to anyone.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/b...

Economist Amartya Sen won a Nobel in part for asking: Why did India avoid the mass famines that killed tens of millions in China? His answer: a free press. Journalists could expose suffering and shame governments into action. Silence and avoidance, by contrast, can be deadly.

Hassett went on TV and claimed you can’t trust the economic data anymore because all the recent revisions are partisan. A bald-faced lie. Every serious economist still in this administration should resign. They are actively underminding the US economy by lending their credibility to this horse****