Customarily, when you are in the first couple of weeks of a new job, it’s best to learn the names of the people around you, absorb the rudiments of your new workplace, maybe figure out the lunch situation. This was Read More …
The latest Trump Administration reset has begun, or so we are being asked to believe. On Tuesday, Mike Dubke, the White House communications director, confirmed that he was leaving his job after just three months. There is also talk of Read More …
News came Tuesday afternoon that Maria Sharapova, the winner of five major tournaments in her long career, would not be offered one of two possible wild cards into the French Open, a tournament she has won twice. She was denied Read More …
Nineteen years ago, after medical school at Columbia University; a stint at Montefiore Medical Center, in the Bronx; and a period running homeless shelters in Times Square; Karen Kinsell moved to Fort Gaines, a tiny town in southwest Georgia, on Read More …
On the night of June 15, 2014, eight Americans—six Delta Force operators, an F.B.I. agent, and an Arabic translator—travelled in rubber boats across the Mediterranean and arrived on a beach in Benghazi, Libya. They hustled across the sand and snuck Read More …
The Hollywood Transit Center, in Portland, Oregon, was quiet on Sunday morning, but its concrete walkways were filled with words of love and grief. By twos and by threes, by bike and by foot, people arrived to leave flowers or Read More …
It is over. The floor is strewn with confetti and small children. N.B.A.-championship celebrations used to be backroom affairs; the players didn't linger to commiserate, they escaped into the champagne-drenched oasis of the locker room. That’s where Jordan clutched his trophy and Read More …
On Monday morning, the Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments on the constitutionality of the Trump Administration’s executive order barring travellers from several majority-Muslim countries from entering the U.S. It also allowed the travel ban—which the Administration first issued in Read More …
If there was an organizing principle in Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday—which was by turns dismissive, incoherent, evasive, and shameful—it was that certain people are owed deference, and certain others are not. This Read More …
On Wednesday, as expected, the Federal Reserve raised short-term interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point, to 1.25 per cent. This is still a very low rate by historical standards, but some real news came during the press Read More …