On Thursday, a fine spring day in Washington, D.C., Donald Trump took to the podium in the White House’s Rose Garden and announced that he was pulling the United States out of the Paris climate-change agreement. In doing so, he Read More …
Among American basketball fans, the offensive scheme known as the Triangle has become a bit of a joke lately. Writers have referred to it as “outdated” and “obtuse.” In January, Mike D’Antoni, the Houston Rockets coach, who is regarded as Read More …
On Sunday evening, in the North End of Beaumont, Texas, Jorden Robinson stood in ankle-deep water outside his grandmother’s house, at 4460 Swift Drive, wearing a tank top, sweatpants, and mismatched socks. He had lost his shoes in the floods, Read More …
“There’s just something about this job as President . . .” George W. Bush observed last week, in an interview with NPR. “You think one thing going in and then the pressures of the job or the realities of the Read More …
There are few forces on television more powerful than Tucker Carlson’s skepticism. Subjected to it, a pundit or politician will wilt, or stammer, or stand firm, or (very occasionally) respond with a convincing argument. Whichever way things go, the results Read More …
Two and a half hours before college football’s national-championship game in Atlanta last night, between the University of Georgia Bulldogs and Alabama’s Crimson Tide, a frigid rain fell on a small group that gathered near the stadium. Jack Turner, a Read More …
On the morning of Friday, July 20, 1787, delegates to the Constitutional Convention, in Philadelphia, addressed the question of whether or not a President could be impeached while in office. A king might be beheaded, a Prime Minister toppled. What Read More …
The nerd caucus of the United States Senate is currently headed by Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut Democrat, who clerked for Justice Harry Blackmun on the Supreme Court before serving for two decades as his state’s attorney general. (Other members of Read More …
Alex Ortiz came to the United States, from Honduras, when he was ten years old, and has lived most of his life since in Memphis, Tennessee. I met him while reporting an article on Freedom University, an underground school for Read More …
Tom Baxter, a longtime political columnist in the South, grew up in Montgomery, Alabama. Baxter sends out a themed mixtape every holiday season to a liberal-leaning group of friends. This past December’s mix, made in the wake of Donald Trump’s Read More …