The New York Times

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The United States in the last four months has felt like an unremitting series of shocks.

The New York Times sat down with JD Vance while in Rome at the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV. Here’s what he had to say.

President Donald Trump told graduates at the US Military Academy that they were the first to serve in a ‘golden age’ of the nation while leaning into his push to purge DEI programs from the military.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Trump wanted a new plane while he was still in office. But how? ‘We’re the United States of America,’ Trump said. ‘I believe that we should have the most impressive plane’.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Ukraine, now in the fourth year of all-out war with Russia, is facing an urgent need for more soldiers, and after years of reluctance is stepping up efforts to get more women to serve.

‘We’re all tired, we want to go home. But we want to take all of the regions, so that we don’t have to struggle for them in the future.’

As Donald Trump cuts billions of federal dollars from science institutes and universities and restricts what can be studied, other nations are hoping to pick up talent that has been cast aside.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Two Chinas inhabit the American imagination: One is a technology and manufacturing superpower poised to lead the world. The other is an economy that’s on the verge of collapse.

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: There are very few initiatives Donald Trump has undertaken since coming to office that I agree with — except in the Middle East. Here’s why.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: As the Trump administration has withdrawn most foreign assistance globally, it has undercut a deal designed, in part, to curtail the flow of drugs to the United States.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: I had forgotten how exhausting it is to live in Donald Trump’s world. He’s not only a political figure. He creates a psychological and social atmosphere that suffuses the whole culture.

Former vice president Kamala Harris has waded back into the conversation with an affirmation of Democratic frustrations, in a speech her camp billed as her most extensive remarks since leaving Washington.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The election of an African pope would most likely usher in an era of conservatism, in line with the traditional views of many African Catholics.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: President Donald Trump has made clear his intent to smash the reigning global economic order. And in 100 days, he has made remarkable progress in accomplishing that goal.

New details have emerged about pilot errors and technology failures that contributed to one of the worst aviation disasters in American history.