Jessica Winter

In early April, Head Start child-care centers began receiving an e-mail from the address defendthespend@hhs.gov. The message explained that, before providers could access their latest funding, they were required to supply the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, with additional […]

Earlier this month, the Trump Administration announced that it was laying off thirteen hundred employees of the U.S. Department of Education, in addition to the hundreds of workers who had already either lost their jobs or accepted buyout offers. Three

On Sunday, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the recently confirmed Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, published an opinion piece on the Fox News website, headlined “Measles Outbreak Is Call to Action for All of Us.” The

President Donald Trump, winner of the Battle of the Billionaires at WrestleMania 23, has maintained close ties with Linda McMahon, the former C.E.O. of World Wrestling Entertainment, for decades. During the President’s first term, she served for two years as

He is from a wealthy and prominent Maryland family, the valedictorian of a prestigious private school, an Ivy League graduate. His family and friends speak of him fondly, and they worried about him when he fell off the grid, some

Even in a post-Citizens United world, it is difficult to comprehend just how much money Democrats spent on their losses in the 2024 elections. In the Ohio Senate race, Sherrod Brown’s campaign committee burned through eighty-eight million dollars, outspending the

In the first Presidential race since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the American electorate appeared to stake out two seemingly irreconcilable positions. Voters gave a mandate to Donald Trump, who appointed half of the conservative supermajority that abolished

At the end of the summer, the U.S. Surgeon General, Vivek Murthy, issued an advisory on the mental health of the nation’s parents. Too many families, Murthy wrote, are beset by economic factors beyond their control, including the costs of

President Biden’s political career died on a debate stage, a place where his Vice-President, Kamala Harris, has enjoyed unusual good fortune. When she was running as the underdog in the race for California attorney general, in 2010, her opponent, the

Much of undergraduate life—much of life in general—is defined by what psychologists call motivational conflict, which is when a person has the incentive to do two things but can choose only one. It’s Saturday night, your friends are going out,