“Eighty-twenty, yeah,” CiCi Bellis said. Then she paused, and sent her eyes skyward, pondering; a smile broadened across her seemingly untroubled face. Bellis smiles more than most professional tennis players. “Or maybe seventy-thirty. Yeah, seventy-thirty.” She’d just finished a two-hour Read More …

“You know about MS-13?” President Trump asked a crowd at an N.R.A. rally last month in Atlanta. He was talking about the Salvadoran street gang notorious for its violence and brutality in Central America and the U.S. “Get them the Read More …

Although it hasn’t made much news outside of Washington, two Republican senators—Lindsey Graham, of South Carolina, and Bill Cassidy, of Louisiana—have lately been busy putting together yet another piece of draft legislation that would repeal and replace the Affordable Care Read More …

I first encountered Tom Perriello, who lost the Virginia Democratic gubernatorial primary, on June 13th, almost twenty years ago. I had written an article about Bill Clinton’s disastrous foreign policy in West Africa, which bolstered one of the region’s worst Read More …

Within hours of the shooting of the House Majority Whip, Steve Scalise, and four others, one couldn’t help but feel tired watching the predictable brief moment of political unity. The country has been through enough horrors to know that political Read More …

Every August, the traditional vacation month for Spaniards, those Barcelonans who can afford to flee the city and its hordes for the green hills and pretty beaches of the nearby Costa Brava. The legendary boulevard of Las Ramblas, in Barcelona, Read More …

For some time now, it has been clear that Donald Trump is wading ever deeper into the cesspool. From his reaction to the white-supremacist-inspired violence in Charlottesville, to his attempt to bar transgender people from serving in the armed forces, Read More …

In the fall of 1989, the American consul-general in Hong Kong, Donald Anderson, asked a retired local politician to imagine the future: What might life be like after July 1, 1997, the day that Britain’s century-old lease on Hong Kong Read More …

At 10 P.M. on Tuesday night, Houston’s NRG Center, a seven-hundred-thousand-square-foot exhibition space that hosts the livestock competitions for the city’s annual rodeo, opened its doors to evacuees from Tropical Storm Harvey. By the time I arrived, the following afternoon, Read More …

A little more than a minute into the second period of Sunday night’s Stanley Cup Finals game between the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Nashville Predators, the Predators’ Colton Sissons scored what appeared to be the first goal of the game, Read More …