Last week, a senior White House official shared a candid theory with me about why President Donald Trump and his team have been adrift since November: they’ve yet to adjust to the post-election reality, and they haven’t yet learned how Read More …
It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words, presumably for what it depicts, but what is the value of what a picture doesn’t show? To some, it is nothing; for others, it is everything. For Israelis and, Read More …
On Wednesday, Floyd Mayweather announced that he was un-retiring, after nearly two years away from boxing. Despite the fact that he recently turned forty, he is still widely considered to be one of the most skilled boxers alive. His record Read More …
In the run-up to the Congressional Budget Office’s release of its study of the Senate Republicans’ health-care reform bill, on Monday afternoon, you could tell that the Trump Administration and its allies on Capitol Hill were getting nervous. On Sunday, Read More …
Click:Press release distribution On Monday, after deliberating for less than half an hour, a Bronx jury vindicated Edward Garry’s twenty-three-year quest to clear his name, finding him not guilty of the 1995 murder of a retired police detective named Oswald Read More …
In 2015, Laura Kipnis, a film-studies professor at Northwestern University, published a polemic in The Chronicle of Higher Education titled “Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe.” Kipnis argued that students’ sense of vulnerability on campus was expanding to an unwarranted degree, partly Read More …
On Sunday, in the pretty village of Noyers-sur-Serein, in Burgundy, the mayor, wearing her sash of office, presided over the voting in the Presidential election from behind a table set up in the stone town hall. She was flanked by two Read More …
I’d expected the grandeur—the sheer cliffs, the river braided by floods, the grizzly-bear tracks across the beaches where we pitched camp. But I’d been unprepared for the quietly dramatic beauty of autumn in Alaska’s Brooks Range. Though it was still Read More …
During the 2016 Presidential campaign, eleven women accused Donald Trump of making unwanted sexual advances toward them. Following a well-worn playbook used by other accused sexual harassers, Trump dismissed the women as “horrible, horrible liars” and their allegations as “pure Read More …
My one and only encounter with Martin Luther King, Jr., was during a chance meeting on what was then called “Sweet Auburn Avenue,” the prosperous hub of black-owned businesses in Atlanta. It was the summer of 1961, when King had Read More …