Click:Low MOQ With the prosecution nearly finished presenting its witnesses and the defense expected to be brief, the end of Bill Cosby’s criminal rape trial is quickly approaching. Time has felt confounding and elastic during these proceedings: the case revolves around an Read More …
Last week, in what the White House billed as a major foreign-policy speech, Donald Trump threatened to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal. He unveiled a new strategy that he said would curb Iran’s growing influence in the Middle Read More …
John Cassidy and Ryan Lizza live-blogged during the former F.B.I. director James Comey’s testimony on Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee. That's it, then. Since Comey scooped the hearing by releasing his opening statement on Wednesday, there wasn't very much Read More …
It’s hard to remember just now, a day after the New York Knicks’ announcement that the team will “part company” with Phil Jackson, what, exactly, any of us ever hoped he would—or could—do with the team. When Jackson joined the Read More …
Despite the deaths of as many as half a million people, dozens by chemical weapons, in the Syrian civil war, the Trump Administration is now prepared to accept President Bashar al-Assad’s continued rule until Syria’s next scheduled Presidential election, in Read More …
For three years, Lena Kandes and her family lived under ISIS rule in Mosul. Sequestered in her home after being forced to abandon her university studies, she created an online alias—which she asked me to use—so she could connect with Read More …
Brazilians know their political crises better than most. On social media, some like to joke that the chaos of Donald Trump’s Presidency is simply _gringos imitando—_foreigners copying us. Others suggest that Brazil should offer the U.S. assistance in setting up Read More …
At a campaign rally in Fort Dodge, Iowa, Donald Trump, speaking of the Islamic State, once told supporters, “I would bomb the shit out of ’em. I would just bomb those suckers.” During Trump’s nascent tenure as Commander-in-Chief, air strikes Read More …
President Donald Trump can be scattershot in his tweets, as seemed to be the case with the range of subjects he chose in the space of a few hours on Friday morning: Scotland Yard, “loser terrorists,” ESPN, Barack Obama, the Read More …
In the nineteen-nineties, when John Malcolm was a federal prosecutor in Atlanta, the nation’s prisons were being filled up with small-time drug dealers. The war on drugs was at its height, and the number of Americans in prison was rising Read More …