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President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on Dec.15, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images North America The Justice Department released a new batch of files Tuesday related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein which contain hundreds of references to President Trump. Trump has not been accused of wrongdoing in connection to Epstein though he had a well-documented friendship with the disgraced financier in the 1980s, ’90s, and 2000s. This latest tranche gives more details on Trump’s relationship with Epstein, including documentation of Trump flying on…

Culture / December 23, 2025 Ad Policy People stand outside the Met amidst thunder storms on Tuesday, July 4, in Manhattan, New York.(Barry Williams / Getty Images) Why did the Metropolitan Museum remove the John Wilson banner that last autumn had been gracing its façade? That arresting image was made from a tiny portrait of the artist’s brother, expanded to monumental public proportions, that announced the Met’s “Witnessing Humanity” exhibit, a Wilson retrospective that continues through February 8. In the picture, the brother’s brow is steadfast, his gaze grave and alert, mouth and chin resolutely composed; perhaps no Black face…

Consumer spending has been a key engine of the U.S. economy, but polls show Americans are getting more concerned about their finances. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Spencer Platt/Getty Images The U.S. economy grew robustly in July, August and September, powered by steady consumer spending, especially on health care. The gross domestic product — the broadest measure of the nation’s economic activity — for the third quarter grew at an annual rate of 4.3%, much faster than the 3.8% expansion seen between April and June, according to the Commerce Department on Tuesday. Growth has picked up from the…

Over the past year you’ve read Nation writers like Elie Mystal, Kaveh Akbar, John Nichols, Joan Walsh, Bryce Covert, Dave Zirin, Jeet Heer, Michael T. Klare, Katha Pollitt, Amy Littlefield, Gregg Gonsalves, and Sasha Abramsky take on the Trump family’s corruption, set the record straight about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s catastrophic Make America Healthy Again movement, survey the fallout and human cost of the DOGE wrecking ball, anticipate the Supreme Court’s dangerous antidemocratic rulings, and amplify successful tactics of resistance on the streets and in Congress. We publish these stories because when members of our communities are being abducted, household…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks as President Donald Trump looks on, at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club, Monday, Dec. 22, 2025, in Palm Beach, Fla. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption toggle caption Alex Brandon/AP WASHINGTON — The U.S. military said Monday that it had conducted another strike against a boat it said was smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing one person. In a social media post, U.S. Southern Command said, “Intelligence confirmed the low-profile vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations.” Southern Command provided no evidence that the vessel was engaged…

Politics / December 22, 2025 Plutocrats, pundits, and government officials joined together in a racist smear campaign against a queer Palestinian student at Brown University. Ad Policy Candles are lit by framed photos of mass shooting victims Mukhammad Aziz Amurzokov and Ella Cook at a makeshift memorial near Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, on December 15, 2025.(Bing Guan / AFP via Getty Images) To survive a school shooting is traumatic enough, but to then face a nationwide racist smear campaign that falsely accuses you of being the murderer is even worse. That was the fate of Mustapha Kharbouch, a…

President Trump departs after speaking at his Mar-a-Lago club on Monday in Palm Beach, Fla. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption toggle caption Alex Brandon/AP WASHINGTON — President Trump has announced a bold plan for the Navy to build a new, large warship that he is calling a “battleship” as part of a larger vision to create a “Golden Fleet.” “They’ll be the fastest, the biggest, and by far 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built,” Trump claimed during the announcement at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. According to Trump, the ship, the first of which will be named the…

Politics / December 22, 2025 The new editor in chief at CBS News has shown she’s not merely stupendously unqualified—she’s ideologically opposed to the practice of good journalism. Ad Policy CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss hosts a town hall with Erika Kirk on December 10.(Michele Crowe / CBS News via Getty Images) The mega-rich have always been willing to hire, promote, and fund people willing to unquestioningly run interference for their interests while making them feel like their near-pathological selfishness, hoarding of money and power, and total disregard for the public interest is somehow morally justifiable. CBS News…

Former Vice President Mike Pence takes part in the 2025 Atlantic Festival at PAC NYC on Sept. 18, 2025 in New York City. Michael Loccisano/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Michael Loccisano/Getty Images More than a dozen staff members at the influential conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation are leaving the organization to join a group founded by former Vice President Mike Pence. The mass departure follows turmoil within Heritage and the larger conservative movement over the role of right-wing influencers who’ve promoted antisemitic and other extremist ideas. Those tensions were on display at Heritage after its president, Kevin Roberts,…

Books & the Arts / December 22, 2025 The remaking of Trump’s Washington, DC The ballroom and his other proposed building projects are many things, but they are not exactly works of architecture. Ad Policy Donald Trump, October 2025.(Demetrius Freeman / Getty). This article appears in the January 2026 issue. The $300 million ballroom that former real estate developer and current president Donald Trump is building where the East Wing of the White House once stood is many things. The 90,000-square-foot room is a perfect expression of Trump’s unfailingly plutocratic worldview. It is a flex of his tragically warped idea…