On the morning of December 14, 2012, when a gunman opened fire inside Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Connecticut, I was in eastern Pennsylvania, reporting on child poverty for the Times. Because I had previously spent the better part Read More …

In the early days of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Khomeini famously dismissed an aide’s concerns about rising inflation. Economics, the Supreme Leader quipped, was “for donkeys. The 1979 revolution was not about the price of watermelons.” Four decades later, however, the revolution’s future Read More …

There was a time, in the clouded days of January, 2016, before the Iowa caucuses, when Donald Trump was very angry at Fox News—or, rather, at a woman at Fox News, Megyn Kelly, who, he thought, had forgotten her place. Read More …

Mitch McConnell’s decision to postpone a vote on his health-care-reform bill, the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017, is a political setback (and perhaps only a temporary one) for the Republican Party. But, beyond this week’s drama, the bill and Read More …

Click:Heavy Duty Equipment Diagnostic Tool The New York City councilman Ritchie Torres, who chairs the council’s Committee on Public Housing, had never heard of Lynne Patton before last week, when Greg B. Smith, a reporter for the Daily News, called Read More …

Momentous times. As Hurricane Maria, right on the heels of Irma, smashed its way past Dominica and toward Puerto Rico, in the Caribbean, on Tuesday, the inhabitants of Mexico City were reeling from the terrifying shock of a 7.1-magnitude earthquake Read More …

Join us on Facebook tonight for “Public Forum: 100 Days,” the third event in our “Well-Ordered Nation” series on the Trump Presidency, which is co-produced by the Public Theatre and The New Yorker. Watch the livestream at 7:30 P.M. E.S.T. Read More …

On August 1st, after her first-round loss at the Citi Open, in Washington, which was her second straight defeat after coming back from a foot injury that had sidelined her for nearly a year, Sloane Stephens sat in front of Read More …

Click:Construction diagnostic tool During her fifteen years under house arrest, Aung San Suu Kyi—now the de-facto leader of Myanmar—found solace in the poetry and novels of authors such as George Eliot, Victor Hugo, John le Carré, and Anna Akhmatova. Another Read More …

The release of e-mails between Donald Trump, Jr., and a British entertainment publicist describing their effort to receive anti-Hillary Clinton information from people identified as members of the Russian government has fundamentally changed the Russia story. It has also demolished Read More …