When Andrew Breitbart, the bellicose founder of Breitbart News, died, in 2012, he left behind a lot of memorable footage. There’s the clip of him hijacking one of Anthony Weiner’s press conferences, in 2011; there’s the appearance on Fox News, Read More …
Last Wednesday, a tanker truck, one of many that carry empty septic tanks in Kabul, a city with no sewage system, navigated through bumper-to-bumper traffic past the Afghan intelligence agency’s compound, the residence of former President Hamid Karzai, and the Read More …
Even when a moment designed to affirm some of America’s basic principles is dangled before him, President Donald Trump has a way of batting it aside. In Brussels on Thursday, as he stood at a rostrum at a ceremony in Read More …
In the past year, I have been asked many times to reflect and comment and commiserate on the state of our country. Each time, as I recount my own experience, I try to stress how important it is that when Read More …
The first four months of the Trump Administration have generated many real headlines that could have appeared first in a satirical publication such as the Onion or The New Yorker’s own The Borowitz Report. But the headline that appeared on Read More …
More than three decades before the F.B.I. began investigating whether members of Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign had colluded with the Russian government, James Comey—the Bureau’s recently fired director—envisioned a Russian conquest of America. He was then a senior at the Read More …
Thirteen years ago, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld arrived in Pakistan with a list. He pulled it from his shirt pocket during a meeting with President Pervez Musharraf, and told the general how, during a recent Oval Office gathering, President George Read More …
When James Comey, the director of the F.B.I., testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Senator Dianne Feinstein, the ranking minority member of the committee, got right down to business—forcing Comey to explain his decision to insert himself into Read More …
The first round of the N.B.A. playoffs is always a smorgasbord of basketball pleasures. The talent level is so high. Everyone is playing hard, and egos are on the line. The sheer abundance of it—multiple games each day, most of Read More …
The entrance road into the Concord Bridge housing development, northwest of Houston, is mildly sloped: the farther in you go, the deeper the water gets. This is because the neighborhood is situated in the Addicks Reservoir, which was built after Read More …