The evidence is now clear that the White House and Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, have worked together to halt what was previously billed as a sweeping investigation of Russian interference in last year’s election. “We’ve Read More …
Last November, a few days before the U.S. Presidential election, I was among a group of American reporters and researchers who visited Damascus, Syria, to interview President Bashar al-Assad and his foreign minister, Walid Muallem. At a meeting with the Read More …
In 1970, when President Richard Nixon announced the U.S. invasion of Cambodia, twenty foreign-service officers signed a letter to the Secretary of State protesting the decision. According to "The Dissent Papers," a history of bureaucratic opposition to Presidential policies, by Hannah Read More …
On a quiet Sunday morning in December, 1999, Jimmy Breslin, a stocky man then in his early seventies, his hair a shock of white, stepped out of a car that had dropped him at a street corner in the Hasidic Read More …
Last Friday, Erick Erickson published a piece on his Web site, The Resurgent, about President Trump’s surprise press conference, in which the President spent seventy-five minutes excoriating his critics and entertaining his faithful with a fresh batch of dubious claims. Like an Read More …
This weekend, Davis Cup teams from the United States and Australia will square off in Brisbane, but few Americans—even ardent tennis fans—will be paying attention. This could be blamed on drastic time-zone disparities (though the Australian Open this winter attracted Read More …
With President Trump being uncharacteristically quiet on Thursday morning amid a new batch of reports about his associates' ties to Russia, it was left to the Kremlin to blast the "fake news" media. "The only piece of advice that I can Read More …
Who is affected by President Donald Trump’s “Executive Order Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States,” which he issued on Monday morning? A better question to ask might be who isn’t touched by it, here or abroad. An Read More …
The White House would like you to know that Michael Flynn’s sin was lying. Flynn resigned late last night as President Donald Trump’s national-security adviser, after twenty-four days on the job. While waiting last night for the resignation announcement to Read More …
“The anti-Semitic threats targeting our Jewish community and community centers are horrible and are painful, and a very sad reminder of the work that still must be done to root out hate and prejudice and evil,” President Trump said Tuesday Read More …