The most emblematic monuments to the victims of terrorist bombings and mass shootings may be the city-storage rooms that house, in carefully labelled folders and acid-free boxes, the posters, letters, stuffed animals, and other items that people place in makeshift Read More …
Norm Eisen, the dean of Washington ethics watchdogs, has a simple way of describing his reaction to hearing Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and the lawmaker formerly in charge of an investigation into Russian meddling in Read More …
Nicole Gibbs is a twenty-three-year-old American tennis player, currently ranked No. 92 in the world. She might climb the rankings in the next few years—she was an indomitable national collegiate champion and stays in points with her sound defense; last Read More …
Of all the accounts of the plight of the white working class that appeared during the 2016 election, the work of the married Princeton economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton seemed to cut most deeply. In 2015, Case and Deaton Read More …
When I imagine Venus Williams on the court, I see her standing on the baseline, taking the ball early, hitting it hard and deep and flat. Or I think of her scrambling, her compact swing generating surprising power, her long Read More …
Most of the boxing fans who filled up Madison Square Garden on Saturday night were hoping to see a great fight, even if they weren’t expecting a competitive one. The main attraction was Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin, known as Triple G, Read More …
In 2008, it emerged that Ehud Olmert, then Israel’s Prime Minister, was being investigated for having received cash-stuffed envelopes from an American businessman. I remember an acquaintance remarking, “Another kept man.” Like Ariel Sharon, Olmert’s predecessor, whose tenure had been Read More …
This week, President Donald Trump held a morning meeting with African-American supporters to celebrate Black History Month. Reading stiffly from a piece of paper, he allowed how Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was someone whose “incredible example is unique in Read More …
In the first weeks of the Obama Administration, Michael McFaul, the President’s top aide on Russia policy at the National Security Council, found himself in a contentious negotiation with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian Ambassador to the United States. McFaul, a Read More …
On Monday morning, moments before James Comey, the director of the F.B.I., confirmed the existence of one of his agency’s investigations—the one into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia—news broke about the results of another one. The F.B.I. Read More …