Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Richard Nixon

America’s $901 billion trade deficit is like ‘chronically high cholesterol,’ top economist says, and Trump’s 150-day tariffs are the wrong medicine

Trump’s trade policy risks confusing one problem with a much bigger crisis, according to Harvard professor Gita Gopinath.

Fortune

Trump Can't Filibuster Through the 6-Year Itch

Those expecting fireworks at tonight's State of the Union will have to sit through the tedious resume-padding of a flagging president.

Reason

Drug use on the rise as U.S. spends $1 trillion in War on Drugs and cartel leaders drive violence in Mexico

The death of El Mencho decapitates one of Mexico’s most powerful cartels, but there’s a whole lot more sustaining the drug industry nowadays.

Fortune

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

What About Nixon?

How many Presidents make a precedent?

Reason

SCOTUS vs POTUS: Who really runs America? A throwback to the (in)famous tug-of-wars

'You can't always get what you want ... '

The Times of India

Why the ‘Streets of Minneapolis’ have echoed with public support – unlike the campus of Kent State in 1970

The president announces an aggressive, controversial policy. Large groups of protesters take to the streets. Government agents open fire and kill protesters.

The Conversation

Meet Charles Radford: US sailor who spied on Kissinger during the 1971 India–Pakistan war

A young US Navy yeoman, Charles Radford, secretly copied classified documents from the National Security Council during the early 1970s. He passed these sensitive papers, including those related to Henry Kissinger's handling of the India-Pakistan war, to senior military officers. This internal spying revealed a power struggle between civilian leaders…

The Times of India

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

'If India jumped Pakistan...': Unsealed Watergate files reveals Richard Nixon asked China to interfere in Bangladesh Liberation War

In his grand jury testimony, Nixon described a secret assurance given to Beijing during the war. His full statement reads: “The Russians were supporting India. … Nobody was supporting Pakistan because there was an embargo on the shipment of arms. … But we were giving moral support to them, and…

The Times of India

Seven Pages Of Nixon Grand Jury Testimony Reveal The Real Threat Of the Deep State

Nixon's enemies within his own administration were spying on and trying to subvert the elected President.

Reason

Ray Dalio warns the world is ‘on the brink’ of a capital war of weaponizing money—and gold is the best way for people to protect themselves

“It would be very easy to go over the brink into a capital war, because there are mutual fears” between the U.S. and Europe, the Bridgewater Associates founder warned.

Fortune

‘De-escalate’: Trump team’s moves suggest it’s not part of the plan

President Trump might have talked about moves to "de-escalate" his aggressive second term, but his actions suggest the opposite is the plan.

Roll Call

"Celebrating Buckley v. Valeo: A Landmark of Political Freedom," by Joel M. Gora

"An original Buckley litigator shares the inside story of one of America’s most important political speech victories."

Reason

Rebirth of the madman theory? Unpredictability isn’t what it was when it comes to foreign policy

Tariffs are on, until they are not. Military force is an option … and then it’s off the table.

The Conversation

Health and competence are shaping Trump’s presidency. What about his predecessors?

One year into U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term, questions about his health and competence are as pervasive as the gilt sprawling through the Oval Office.

The Conversation

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Conversation

Trump’s second term is proving different from his first. This time it’s imperial

The key difference between Donald Trump’s first and second presidencies can be summed up by his two official portraits. The first after his victory in 2016 shows a smiling Trump, probably delighted to have won against the odds and, at least in theory, willing to work with his opponents.

Roll Call

Compared with other presidents, Trump 2.0 is one of a kind

President Trump's first year back in office was unlike any other served by a U.S. president, historians said.

The Conversation

How two acclaimed US films reveal the failures of leftwing revolutionary politics

Donald Trump’s victory in November 2024 led to considerable soul-searching among those on the left of US politics. Having failed to defeat a convicted criminal they beat once before, the Democrats spent most of 2025 licking their wounds as Trump launched what they saw as a full-frontal assault on US…

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Trump and Greenland: get real! Bullying is not strength

Editorial: Tariff threats over the Arctic island expose the limits of coercive diplomacy. Europe’s united response and pushback shows fear is fading

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Trump’s world: from Venezuela to Iran to Greenland, the madness is the method

Editorial: The US president delights in his inconsistency. But his short-term victories have profound long-term costs for his country and the world

The Independent UK

Trump uses affordability speech to air grievances and empty boasts – but offers little to bring down prices

Address to Detroit Economic Club includes few concrete proposals to address cost-of-living concerns

The Independent UK

Republicans slam Powell probe as ‘coercion’ as Trump tries strong-arming central bank

GOP pushback could imperil Trump’s efforts to remake the central bank’s board in his own image

Reason

Justice Barrett, Trump v. Slaughter, and Presidential Removal Power from 1969 to 1989

Humphrey's Executor from 1969 to 1989.

The Conversation

A predawn op in Latin America? The US has been here before, but the seizure of Venezuela’s Maduro is still unprecedented

In the dead of night during the holidays, the United States launched an operation inside a Latin American country, intent on seizing its leader on the pretext that he is wanted in U.S. courts on drug charges.

The Conversation

I wrote a book on the politics of war powers, and Trump’s attack on Venezuela reflects Congress surrendering its decision-making powers

Americans woke up on Jan. 3, 2025, to blaring headlines: “US CAPTURES MADURO, TRUMP SAYS,” declared The New York Times, using all capital letters. The U.S. had mounted an overnight military raid in Venezuela that immediately raised questions of procedure and legality. Prime among them was what role Congress had…

The Independent UK

Trump’s ballroom plans are nothing new, says longtime White House aide

Trump himself has discussed building a White House ballroom for years, even before entering politics

1 2 3 4 5

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

the Department of Justice

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.