For days, the political world had been waiting nervously for the Congressional Budget Office's assessment of the House Republicans' Trump-endorsed proposal to replace Obamacare. On Monday afternoon, when the numbers-heavy report finally appeared, one figure it contained dominated all the others: twenty-four Read More …
On Thursday, Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump’s most influential adviser, and Reince Priebus, Trump’s frequently embattled chief of staff, spoke together at the Conservative Political Action Conference, the annual gathering for activists, politicians, and media professionals on the right. Bannon Read More …
There were many issues to cover during the confirmation hearing for Rex Tillerson, the former C.E.O. of ExxonMobil who is the President-elect’s nominee for Secretary of State, all of them containing the potential for fireworks: climate change; Tillerson’s financial entanglements; Read More …
It was “insane,” a “marathon rant” at the media, and “a press conference for the ages.” Before you accuse me of liberal bias, these were the terms that Fox Business Network’s Charles Gasparino, the home page of the New York Read More …
Ivanka Trump’s announcement this week that she would take an unpaid federal job in the White House makes official the familial coziness of President Donald Trump’s Administration. Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, with his-and-hers security clearances and offices in the Read More …
The moral case for President Trump’s strike on Syria is uncontroversial. Bashar al-Assad is a heinous dictator who has been terrorizing his own people for years, and the most recent crime against innocents of which he’s been accused—indiscriminately killing dozens Read More …
On Friday morning in South Korea, the eight judges of the country’s Constitutional Court appeared live on national television, sitting solemn-faced in their high-back, red-velvet chairs. Three months earlier, the country’s conservative President, Park Geun-hye, had been impeached by the Read More …
What should—what will—protests against Donald Trump be like? I asked myself this question early yesterday morning while riding a bus down to Washington from New York. My bus left from Trinity Church, near Wall Street. On the bus were teen-agers, Read More …
On Tuesday morning, at about the time that Donald Trump was casually threatening to destroy the career of a Texas state senator who had objected to laws regarding the forfeiture of property from drug suspects, House Speaker Paul Ryan and Read More …
Yesterday afternoon, Kellyanne Conway, President Donald Trump’s counsellor, was receiving a training that would allow her to obtain top-secret security clearances when an aide came to pull her out of the meeting. That morning, Conway had appeared on Fox News. Read More …