John Dhoul and Mabeny Naam started playing basketball in 2013, just two years after South Sudan, where they were born, gained its independence. Gifted athletes, the boys, who are sixteen and fifteen, respectively, were among twenty-five students selected last fall Read More …
Barack Obama’s final press conference as President, which took place on Wednesday afternoon in the White House briefing room, was a curious affair. On the face of things, it was a low-key event, in which Obama seemed to go out Read More …
On Monday, when the House Intelligence Committee held its first public hearing about Russian involvement in the U.S. Presidential election, Republican members were almost completely focussed on leaks. In his opening statement, Devin Nunes, the chairman of the committee, made Read More …
In 2011, Kalimah Truesdale was at her job as a sales associate at Home Depot when she got a phone call informing her that her brother had just been arrested. Two years earlier, a teen-age boy had been shot to Read More …
On a crisp spring day in March, in the northern city of Sulaymaniyah, I met Abu Islam, a senior ISIS leader nicknamed the Ghost of ISIS by Iraqi intelligence for his elusiveness. He was escorted into a small office with Read More …
North America has long been a geographic term, not a political or a cultural designation. But, in the twenty-five years since the institution of the North American Free Trade Agreement, it has come to seem not entirely delusional to think Read More …
Given that a cache of documents that might show whether Scott Pruitt, President Donald Trump’s choice to run the Environmental Protection Agency, ought to get the job is due to be released next Tuesday, why did Senate Republicans insist, over Read More …
On Saturday morning, I woke up to a panicked message from my friend Kinan Azmeh, in Beirut. He wanted to know, “Do you think I can no longer go back to America?” A virtuoso on the clarinet and a brilliant composer, Read More …
During last year's election campaign, some tax experts and financial reporters suggested that Donald Trump may not have paid any federal income taxes since the nineteen-nineties. Trump's dogged refusal to release any of his returns contributed to this speculation. So Read More …
On Saturday afternoon, a group of about fifty tech workers, attorneys, anti-surveillance activists, and other Bay Area denizens stood outside a three-story, nine-bedroom, twenty-five-million-dollar mansion. It is the home of the investor, entrepreneur, and Trump adviser Peter Thiel, who co-founded Read More …