His wife was spiraling into insomnia, and his children were afraid to go to school, so Jaime Cachua sought out the person he trusted most in a crisis. He sat at his kitchen table in rural Georgia across from his father-in-law, Sky Atkins, the family patriarch. Jaime, 33, hadn?t seen his own father since he was 10 months old, when he left Mexico in a car seat bound for the United States.

?We have to prepare for the worst-case scenario,? Jaime told him. ?There?s a chance we could lose everything.?

Jaime muted the football game on TV and began to explain his new reality as an undocumented immigrant after the election of Donald Trump, who had won the presidency in part by promising to deport more than 11 million people living in the country illegally.

?I?m going to be straight with you,? Sky told Jaime. ?I voted for Trump. I believe in a lot of what he says.?

?I figured as much,? Jaime said. ?You and just about everyone else around here.?

?It?s about protecting our rights as a sovereign country,? Sky said. ?We need to shut down the infiltration on the border. It?s not about you.?

?It is about me,? Jaime said. ?That?s the thing I don?t understand.?

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Weeks before his inauguration, President-elect Donald J. Trump is pushing the federal government toward a shutdown, corporate titans are flocking to Mar-a-Lago to gain his favor and a major media company has capitulated to Trump?s legal strategy of suing those who cross him.

The Times journalists Michael Barbaro, Maggie Haberman, Catie Edmondson and Andrew Ross Sorkin try to make sense of it all.

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Since Donald J. Trump won the 2024 election, cryptocurrency has surged to its highest level ever. 

David Yaffe-Bellany, a technology reporter for The Times, explains how a small, renegade industry that began as a challenge to the financial system ended up on top of it.

Guest: David Yaffe-Bellany, a technology reporter for The New York Times.

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After months of testimony, verdicts are expected as soon as this week in a rape trial that has both horrified and captivated the people of France.

Catherine Porter, who has covered the trial, discusses the woman at the center of the case and how, with a single decision, she has turned the power dynamics of the #MeToo era on their head.

Guest: Catherine Porter, an international correspondent for The New York Times based in Paris.

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Jeanna Smialek, who covers the U.S. economy for The Times, will be 33 in a few weeks; she is part of a cohort born in 1990 and 1991 that makes up the peak of America?s population.

At every life stage, that microgeneration has stretched a system that was often too small to accommodate it, leaving its members ? so-called peak millennials ? with outsize economic power but also a fight to get ahead.

Guest: Jeanna Smialek, a U.S. economy correspondent for The New York Times.

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