In December of last year, two Russian intelligence officers met in the Washington, D.C., area with a potential source they hoped had valuable information regarding the inner workings of the Obama White House. At the meeting, the Russians probed for Read More …
Donald Trump arrived in Saudi Arabia this weekend to launch a new Middle East coalition designed to confront Iran, just as Tehran announced the reëlection of President Hassan Rouhani, the man who dared to engage diplomatically with the United States. Read More …
Earlier this month, a senior White House official deeply involved in enacting President Trump’s agenda on Capitol Hill laid out the Administration’s ideal legislative schedule for the rest of this year. “Between now and the August recess, we’d like them Read More …
The Trump Administration’s proposed budget, which was released earlier this week, was more of a wish list than a policy blueprint. The proposal was distinguished by its call for deep cuts to the social safety net. But the document wasn’t Read More …
“I’ve accomplished a tremendous amount in a very short time as President,” Donald Trump told the graduating class of the Coast Guard Academy, in New London, Connecticut, on Wednesday, a day when, with talk of impeachable offenses in the air, Read More …
As Emmanuel Macron and his supporters celebrated his big victory in the French Presidential election outside the Louvre on Sunday night, you could almost hear the sighs of relief from other parts of Europe, and also from this country. After Read More …
Don Price’s workday begins in the old section of Greenwood Cemetery in Orlando. At 9:30 A.M., he pulls his red Dodge Ram pickup through the gates and drives counterclockwise along the roads that wind past the gravestones of nineteenth-century pioneers, Read More …
Seconds after Betsy DeVos, the Secretary of Education, walked up to the lectern at a Daytona Beach convention center on Wednesday to deliver her commencement address to Bethune-Cookman University’s graduating class, she was drowned out by booing from the crowd. Students Read More …
In late February, a three-and-a-half-year-old cub clambered into a crate marked “Contents one panda” to begin a sixteen-hour, one-way flight to China. Bao Bao was born at the National Zoo, in Washington, D.C., and this was her first trip overseas. Read More …
If the former F.B.I. director James Comey’s testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee is to be believed, one of the driving factors that led Donald Trump to fire Comey was the F.B.I. chief’s reluctance to publicly state that the President was not Read More …