On the first day of his second hundred days in office, Donald Trump visited familiar terrain: Trump National Golf Club, in Sterling, Virginia. According to Mark Knoller, a White House correspondent for CBS News, it was the twentieth visit that Trump Read More …
Certainty has been the condition of the evening programs on Fox News for a generation, but on Tucker Carlson’s show on Wednesday night, which aired just a few hours after the Justice Department announced it had appointed a special counsel Read More …
Sean Spicer, whose job, until Friday morning, was to speak extemporaneously on behalf of the Trump Administration, was never much good at extemporaneous speaking. Earlier this year, while working on a piece about the West Wing’s mounting conflicts with the Read More …
In the Chinese media, Jared Kushner’s name almost never appears without the title diyi nǚxu, or First Son-in-Law. But, from a Chinese perspective, First Son-in-Law, as a job description, supersedes even Kushner’s official role as a senior adviser to Donald Read More …
On a sweltering afternoon in Istanbul last summer, loud noises woke the Turkish novelist Aslı Erdoğan from a nap. “Open, police! Open, or we will break the door,” a voice called. When Erdoğan, an award-winning writer, unlocked her door, the Read More …
On Tuesday, the U.S. men’s national team travelled to the Olímpico Metropolitano, in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, for a World Cup qualifying match against the Honduran national team. Not long ago, few would have imagined that the contest would be Read More …
Hussein Agha and Ahmad Samih Khalidi have been involved in Palestinian peace negotiations for three decades, and are senior associate members of St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and co-authors of “A Framework for a Palestinian National Security Doctrine.” Agha most recently Read More …
Since 1990, the U.S. men’s national team has qualified for the World Cup, the quadrennial soccer spectacle, seven successive times, making it one of only seven countries in the world to do so. This uninterrupted success is due, in part, Read More …
While New Yorkers sweep leaves from their driveways and South Texans play in the snow this week, thousands of Southern Californians are still anxiously awaiting evacuation orders and watering their roofs to protect against flames. The Thomas fire, the colossus Read More …
In 2010, as Cyrus Vance, Jr., took office as Manhattan’s new District Attorney, he promised that “crimes committed by the affluent, the powerful, or by public officials will be investigated and prosecuted as vigorously as street crimes.” Today, his office’s Read More …