NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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 Atlantic When 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.
