On Wednesday night, I received a phone call from Anthony Scaramucci, the new White House communications director. He wasn’t happy. Earlier in the night, I’d tweeted, citing a “senior White House official,” that Scaramucci was having dinner at the White Read More …
The only way to begin talking about Bartolo Colón, the unlikely star pitcher who now plays for the Atlanta Braves, is with his age and his figure. As of today, May 24th, he is forty-four, the oldest player in professional Read More …
Rafael Nadal had never seemed so calm—not at the U.S. Open, not in any Grand Slam final, perhaps not on any tennis court. With the final about to begin, he tapped his feet in that ants-in-his-pants way of his, but Read More …
This summer, Iraqi forces finally drove ISIS out of Mosul and most of northern Iraq. But for the Yazidis, a long persecuted religious and ethnic minority who practice a faith with pre-Zoroastrian roots and Islamic and Christian influences, stability is Read More …
This past Saturday night, as it has regularly for nearly two hundred years, the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre, draped by its famous scarlet and gold curtain, featured the long-anticipated première of a new ballet. Tickets sold out within hours Read More …
Last summer, Thomas Homan, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the federal agency responsible for arresting and deporting undocumented immigrants, received high praise from the President. “Somebody said the other day, they saw him on television . . . ‘He looks very Read More …
Donald Trump is now irrelevant to corporate America. That is the unequivocal message coming from some C.E.O.s, and the Wall Street bankers who work most closely with them. The new strategy by corporate executives to get the policies they once Read More …
In 2017, the politics in every state have been tribal and atavistic, but nowhere so much as in Virginia. In August, extremists staged a horrifying rally in Charlottesville that began with young men gathering under Nazi flags and ended in Read More …
Is soccer a matter of life and death? “It’s much more serious than that,” the droll Bill Shankly, who managed Liverpool in the club’s glory days, once remarked. But how much more? “Us, out of the World Cup?” Carlo Tavecchio, Read More …
The U.S. Open is nearing its dramatic climaxes, the semifinals and the finals, and its narrative threads are becoming clearer. One of them—to me, maybe the most memorable, even if it doesn’t figure in the making of a champion—has been Read More …