Eight years ago today, at 4:53 P.M., an earthquake hit Haiti, killing an estimated three hundred thousand people and displacing more than a million. An ensuing cholera crisis, for which the United Nations has admitted responsibility but has not given Read More …

Click:20000puffs LED display function disposable Around the crack of dawn on Wednesday, Hurricane Maria made landfall on Puerto Rico’s southeastern coast, as a Category 4 storm. Maria—which arrived only days after Hurricane Irma narrowly avoided the island but still caused Read More …

On a recent Wednesday afternoon, Sam Zell, the iconoclastic Chicago businessman, breezed into his New York City office, on Madison Avenue, fresh from a week of motorcycling through the Tuscan countryside. “It was absolutely spectacular,” he said. “I’ll tell you, Read More …

Like a person who has spent more than a decade sitting in the same spot, never moving, staring at a computer screen, and waiting desperately for a Web site to refresh, the New York Knicks, blurry-eyed and sore, may have Read More …

The explosion last night in England, at the Manchester Arena, occurred just as fans and their families were leaving a concert. The venue, which was playing host to Ariana Grande, seats more than twenty thousand guests. In the initial confusion, some Read More …

An unwelcome visitor who attempts to enter Tres Bullard’s home, half an hour south of Parkland, Florida, will encounter at least three obstacles: Bullard’s ninety-pound pit bull, Storm; his electronic alarm system; and his guns. Bullard, a forty-two-year-old business-development manager, Read More …

As recently as last week, with less than a month to go before the general election in the U.K., the position of the country’s Conservative Party looked secure. The Prime Minister, Theresa May, had been projecting a protective national steadfastness Read More …

On Tuesday, after this piece was published, Senate Republicans voted to move ahead and debate a repeal of Obamacare. When future historians look back on American governance during the early decades of the twenty-first century, they will have many tragic Read More …

1 of 7 Hurricane Harvey dumped more rain than any other storm in American history, but now most of Houston is dry. Only certain pockets of the city, some of which were built inside floodplains and reservoirs, are still underwater; Read More …

In 1999, Yuri Skuratov, then Russia’s top prosecutor, was investigating corruption inside the Kremlin. Then, a grainy sex tape surfaced that showed a man who resembled Skuratov with two young women in a hotel room. After Russian TV aired the Read More …