An urgent, topic-by-topic guide to Project 2025, with everything
you need to know about how the second Trump administration is remaking
America—from a go-to authority at The AtlanticWhen
President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025,
news spread about his implementation of Project 2025, a nearly
1,000-page document published by the conservative think tank The
Heritage Foundation. The debates—and anxiety—surrounding this initiative
have only increased as authors of the Project assume positions of power
in the second Trump administration.
So, what is Project 2025,
exactly? Who wrote it, and what does it mean for everyday Americans,
across the political spectrum, now and in the years to come?
In
The Project,
award-winning journalist David A. Graham offers much-needed context and
distills the essential elements of this sprawling document. Breaking
down the Project’s strategy for transforming—and radically
empowering—the executive branch, Graham then explains what the
architects behind Project 2025 are doing with that power:
enforcing traditional gender norms, decimating the civil service,
performing mass deportations, reducing corporate regulation and worker
protections, and more.
Project 2025 is the intellectual blueprint
for the new administration, Graham argues, and its tenets should not be
legible only to policy wonks. Authoritative yet highly accessible, The Project demystifies it for those whose lives it will affect most.
“A close look at the ultra-rightist Project 2025, now playing in a
capital near you . . . [Project 2025] has four chief aims: to restore
the man-headed family, dismantle the ‘administrative state,’ close the
border and defend the nation’s sovereignty, and ‘secure our God-given
individual rights to live freely. . . .’ Essential reading for anyone
trying to make sense of the Trumpian maelstrom.”—Kirkus Reviews
