During my reporting for a profile of Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, this summer, I would occasionally find myself scrolling through the replies and comments on his various social-media feeds. Since he emerged as a national figure during his Read More …
Over the weekend, a massive truck bomb exploded in Mogadishu, the sprawling, once lovely capital of Somalia. The explosives went off on a Saturday afternoon, in a busy intersection, during a traffic jam, and killed an estimated three hundred people, Read More …
On Monday, TVRain, the only private television outlet in Russia whose political coverage is not guided by loyalty to the Kremlin, showed a split screen to viewers. One live shot showed President Vladimir Putin giving an annual address marking Russia Read More …
In his first four months in office, President Donald Trump has shaken America’s democratic foundations at home and abandoned a powerful bipartisan commitment to human rights. Seemingly forgotten is the legacy of Ronald Reagan, who, in his first Inaugural Address, Read More …
A few days after President Trump announced that the United States would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, I went to a friend’s house in Ramallah for dinner. We were by no means a cross-section of Palestinian society: I Read More …
In 1979, according to a new report from the Washington Post, Roy Moore, then a thirty-two-year-old assistant district attorney in Alabama, brought a fourteen-year-old girl, Leigh Corfman, to his home and sexually molested her. Three additional women told the Post Read More …
During the election campaign, Donald Trump promised to jump-start the American economy and generate annual Gross Domestic Product growth of four per cent, which would represent roughly a doubling in the rate that we've seen since the Great Recession ended. Read More …
Four thousand people work for the executive office of the President. Thirty-five thousand work for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Protocols for communication between the two are well established. And yet, on Tuesday, after President Donald Trump decided to fire Read More …
At the center of the North Korean nuclear crisis is a pivotal question: How much is China really willing to pressure and punish its longtime ally in Pyongyang? Recent conversations in Beijing and Washington suggest that Chinese leaders have decided Read More …
Shaky cell-phone videos of the aftermath of the attack. Wrenching images of innocent victims. Condemnation from world leaders. The pattern is grimly familiar. In the days ahead, the background of the Manchester bomber will be probed. Investigators will study how Read More …