The New York Times

JAMELLE BOUIE: If Elon Musk were a Cabinet official, he would be among the most powerful and influential Cabinet officials in American history. But Musk is not a Cabinet official. He’s a kind of co-president.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Some officials and analysts see the Trump administration as merely indifferent to Europe; others see open hostility. But there is a common view that the fundamental relationship has changed.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: It’s an exquisitely Trumpian formulation — tying the mayhem of an insurgent movement to the intuitive wisdom of ordinary people.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Volodymyr Zelensky’s approach to the Trump administration has fallen flat with the White House, engendering not empathy but hostility from the US president.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Europeans are debating additional funding and contemplating troops in Ukraine as American support appears ever more at risk.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Volodymyr Zelensky says his country will work ‘swiftly and very sensibly’ on an agreement granting the US access to its natural resources, in an apparent overture to tamp down tensions.

NICHOLAS KRISTOF: Donald Trump’s siding with an alleged war criminal, President Vladimir Putin of Russia, and poisoning relations with longtime US allies. The trans-Atlantic alliance is unravelling.

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: The scariest thing about what President Donald Trump is doing with his tariffs-for-all strategy, I believe, is that he has no clue what he is doing — or how the world economy operates.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Donald Trump has shown that he has ideas. So many ideas. They are just really bad ideas...

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Donald Trump did the impossible and won back the White House in 2024, and he’s done something equally stunning in 2025: he’s made being Republican ‘cool’ again.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The great collision has begun. As President Donald Trump’s national security team arrived in Europe this week, very little about their hard-line message came as a surprise.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Republican voters signed up for ‘The Trump Show: Politics Edition.’ Musk is producing and distributing that show, one chaotic bite at a time.

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: I can say with confidence that Donald Trump’s Gaza proposal is the single most idiotic and dangerous Middle East ‘peace’ initiative ever put out by an American president.

For nearly every US company right now, navigating the approach to diversity, equity and inclusion is a little like this: They’re perched on chairs, and the floor is lava, and the lava is the froth of lawsuits.

Israeli hostages released as part of the cease fire agreement have begun to give accounts of their horrific ordeal at the hands of Hamas. But their stories are tinged with hope for the future.