"As Mussolini misunderstood Rome, Mr. Trump misunderstands Washington."
Paul Golderberger on the president's ballroom plans:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/o...
Good @heatherknightsf.bsky.social and Soumya Karlamangla story about the dire situation for BART in SF: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...
Great @jonathanmahler.bsky.social story on the new politics of housing in the Mamdani era:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/m...
The Upshot is hiring a data graphics/multimedia editor. Come work with us and make weird things that help people understand the world!
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The administration is also planning to alter the elliptical driveway south of the White House to fit its plans.
This 3D model by the NYT of the proposed East Wing ballroom really makes clear how out of scale it is with the rest of the complex...
We've been tracking nearly 200 lawsuits against the Trump administration over its attempts to leverage federal funding to impose the president's agenda.
The most startling pattern: The administration seems entirely undeterred when it loses in court.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
A reminder that one year in, congestion pricing has clearly been a successful policy: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
A federal judge finally ruled today that the Trump administration acted illegally in trying to shut down New York's congestion pricing program, via @stefanoschen.bsky.social + Winnie Hu www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/n...
Great @natecohn.bsky.social piece on what "affordability" really means to people in this moment, drawing on our most recent polling: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...
"The second Trump coalition has unraveled."
via @natecohn.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
Many months later, the Social Security Administration acknowledged in court that DOGE employees at the agency shared sensitive data in violation of security policies last spring, just as critics and privacy advocates feared at the time: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...
Latest NYT analysis of video footage from the Renee Good shooting capture Ross firing the 2nd and 3rd shots at her after his body is visibly clear of the path of her vehicle.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/v...
Long before construction jobs became dominated by immigrant workers, the appeal of those jobs for American workers began to collapse. Only *then* did immigrants start to fill them.
From a *great* story by @rondakaysen.bsky.social + Rob Gebeloff: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...
“He’s tended to turn the other cheek, and he’s reached a moment where he can’t.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/b...
A long-awaited update of federal employment data shows crippling staff reductions in some federal agencies and offices:
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The Times' Visual Investigations team is the best at trying to find clarity when clarity is hard to come by.
Their view on the Minneapolis shooting yesterday: www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Thank you!
On balance, though, the MTA and Gov. Hochul have to be happy with the results of congestion pricing so far. They toll even raised more than they expected in its first year, about $550 million.
Some people described a real sadness at forgoing car trips they felt they couldn’t replace with transit.
We also asked readers to tell us about their experiences with congestion pricing. Many described quieter, less stressful streets.
The resulting small improvements in speed aren’t necessarily visible to many people. But if you cross one of the chokepoints into Manhattan, you can likely see real change.
Pretty consistently, the toll has deterred about 11 percent of vehicle trips we might have otherwise expected to see in Manhattan’s central business district. That amounts to some real breathing room on roads.
We heard from many people who believed the benefits of the toll had tailed off since the spring. And we thought we might see that, too. But the number of car trips the toll has deterred has been remarkably stable.
That and other evidence from the policy, which is one year old today, in a big collab between @upshot.nytimes.com and the NYT Metro desk:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
My favorite evidence that congestion pricing in New York has reshaped peoples’ behavior: we can see a surge of people trying to enter the zone before the price kicks up at 5 a.m., and after it decreases at 9 p.m.
Love these little @aliciaparlap.bsky.social graphics that illustrate the absurdist ways DOGE claimed it saved money, at the end of a year of trying to chase their accounting.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
Remarkably few of the immigrants arrested in big-city ICE operations have had violent criminal records, via Albert Sun:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
