“I have to tell you, it’s an unbelievably complex subject,” President Donald Trump told a group of governors at the White House yesterday. “Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated.” Trump is not an overly complicated rhetorician. He Read More …
Tommy Haas, the thirty-eight-year-old German tennis player, was once one of the top players on the A.T.P. tour; he is now one of the oldest. He is also now the tournament director of the BNP Paribas Open, at Indian Wells—the Read More …
Last March, J. J. Redick, a guard for the Los Angeles Clippers, confessed some of the worst financial mistakes he had made as a professional athlete. Shortly after being drafted by the Magic, in 2006, for instance, Redick purchased a Read More …
Earlier this month, my nine-year-old son came home from his bilingual school in Shanghai having vandalized his Mandarin textbook. Under the title of a lesson called “The Bountiful Xisha Islands,” he had scribbled, in pencil, “不好,” or “not good.” The Read More …
“I’ve seen the transcript,” a Republican member of the House Intelligence Committee told me recently. “It was explained to us. I don’t know why Flynn did it.” The congressman was talking about a conversation that took place in late December between Read More …
President Trump was up early on Monday morning, and, as usual, he was watching MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” How do we know this? Between six and seven A.M., Joe Scarborough, the show’s co-host, discussed the reports that Steve Bannon, Trump’s chief Read More …
During the National Football Conference championship game this January, during the Atlanta Falcons’ victory over the Green Bay Packers, Alex Mack, the Falcons’ center, broke his fibula for the second time. When he broke it for the first time, in Read More …
Over the weekend, Jeffrey Immelt, the chief executive of General Electric, the venerable manufacturing conglomerate that dates back to 1892—and Thomas Edison—issued a statement to G.E.’s employees distancing the company from Donald Trump’s travel bans on people from predominantly Muslim Read More …
Past the seats reserved for dignitaries, out beyond the point where Donald Trump was discernible from a distance, people huddled around the Jumbotron, like tailgaters around the grill. The mood was giddy and informal, a contrast to that of the Read More …
"My fellow-Americans," Donald Trump said in his weekly address on Friday, "It's an exciting time for our country. Our new Administration has so much change under way— change that is going to strengthen our Union and improve so many people’s lives." It's Read More …