The New York Times

The Pentagon is preparing to brief US President Donald Trump’s right-hand man, DOGE leader Elon Musk, on a 20-30 page top-secret military plan for war with China.

JAMELLE BOUIE: Donald Trump is clearly not restrained by the Constitution. He’s also not restrained by another important element of constitutionalism — an interest in and concern for the future.

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: Are we seeing the slow-motion collapse of the rule of law in the United States and Israel at the same time?

The Chinese Government has issued a lengthy stimulus plan, in yet another move by Beijing to offset potential harm from its escalating economic war with the US. But will it be enough?

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The coronavirus pandemic can seem so safely submerged in the past that we sometimes have to stop and ask ourselves: Did that really happen? It did.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The question of the day is whether the United States is embroiled in a constitutional crisis.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: President Donald Trump does not seem to notice or care that if you betray people, or jerk them around, they will revile you. So what’s going to happen?

A 21-year-old US man who fatally shot four family members and a brother’s pregnant girlfriend in 2021, after his father reprimanded him for staying out late, has been sentenced to 360 years in prison.

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: If you are confused by President Donald Trump’s zigzagging strategies on Ukraine, tariffs, microchips or a host of other issues, it is not your fault. It’s his. 

NICHOLAS KRISTOF: If there are Martian scholars examining the United States right now, they might be puzzling over the great Trump paradox.

Donald Trump has long dealt in distortions and lies, including in his first term. Now, as he executes a much more aggressive agenda, his contradictions have become more brazen and his plan may be working.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: European leaders find themselves plunged into a hostile new era of less cooperation from the United States, a greater threat from Russia, and an increasingly uncertain outlook for Ukraine.

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: Whenever President Donald Trump talks about Ukraine there is always something off, something missing, that makes you wonder what he is really up to.

Donald Trump’s rancorous threat to abandon Ukraine is stoking support for a long-debated proposal to use billions of dollars in frozen Russian assets to buy weapons for Ukraine and finance its reconstruction.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: President Donald Trump is doing damage to America that could take a generation or more to repair. The next election cannot fix what Trump is breaking. Neither can the one after that.