Peter Baker

As Trump opens his second term, it’s important to understand his first. “THE DIVIDER” w/@sbg1.bsky.social now in paperback or Kindle goes behind the scenes of his first four years in the White House and helps explain the next four. politics-prose.com/book/9780593... www.amazon.com/Divider-Trum...

The @washingtonpost tracked where Trump's forces are patrolling in Washington. Spoiler alert: They're not where the crime is.

Vance: "If you go back to World War II, if you go back to World War I, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation." Washington Post, May 8, 1945: "Germany Surrenders Unconditionally."

"Trump’s biggest reveal is what he shows about those around him; he is a mirror, and not a flattering one, for other people’s souls." @sbg1.bsky.social reviews the "longest, cringiest Trump Cabinet meeting yet." www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

60 posts in 10 hours: The rat-a-tat of ever wilder, ever more outrageous social media images each weekend has become a fixture of Trump's second term, seen more and more as a barometer of his mental state. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/u...

60 posts in 10 hours: The rat-a-tat of ever wilder, ever more outrageous social media images each weekend has become a fixture of Trump's second term, seen more and more as a barometer of his mental state. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/u...

Out today: "Money to Burn," the William Cohan blockbuster new account of Leon Black, Apollo and the transformation of Wall Street. Among other things, Cohan gets Black to talk on the record about his baffling relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. www.amazon.com/Money-Burn-U...

Lonnie Bunch to step down as the Smithsonian's chief amid pressure from the White House over the museum's presentation of history. Bunch says the pressure is not why he is resigning but acknowledges that "it has been stressful." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/a...

Senator Marshall filed lawsuits against more than 700 patients with outstanding bills during his decades-long career as an obstetrician-gynecologist. Patients were arrested in 81 of those cases for missing court dates. @sarahkliff.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...

"The one thing he likes to do during the week is construction": With the US mired in an intractable Middle East war, Trump basks in the momentum on a half-dozen makeover projects he has set in motion throughout the capital. @lukebroadwater.bsky.social Maggie Haberman www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/u...

While "shadow secretary" at DHS, Lewandowski asked Qatari and UAE officials to hire him to deal with issues under the department’s purview, such as visas, sources tell @tpartin.bsky.social Josh Dawsey @mhackman.bsky.social and Summer Said.(Lewandowski disputes this.) www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Leopold Aschenbrenner was dubbed the “Nostradamus of AI." His spectacular $35 billion loss "reveals how eager Silicon Valley is to invest its billions in the dubious hands of a kid who confidently proclaims what he doesn’t actually know," writes Theo Baker. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

AfD dominates a crucial state election in Germany, but falls short of the absolute majority that would have made it the first far-right party to govern part of the country since the Nazi era. @jimtankersley.bsky.social Christopher Schuetze www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09...

Yet even as he tried to return to Trump's fold, Cohen kept a foot in the other camp. George Conway says Cohen called to offer to help his campaign for Congress. “I’m like, what? He’s trying to suck up to Trump and literally my entire campaign was about sending this guy to jail.”