Garry Kasparov was back. There was the familiar sight: elbows on the table, hands on his head, pieces humming. It wasn’t the first time he had been spotted at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis: since retiring, Read More …

In 1974, Richard Nixon became the first American President to visit Saudi Arabia and Israel—as well as Syria—on a swing intended to chalk up triumphs abroad and, more pointedly, to divert attention from the escalating Watergate crisis at home. It Read More …

Patty is a thirty-eight-year-old Salvadoran mother of two who has lived in the United States, on Long Island, since 1998. Her father was killed during El Salvador’s civil war, in the nineteen-eighties, and her mother fled to the U.S. to Read More …

“Should I take one of the killer networks that treat me so badly as fake news—should I do that?” Donald Trump said on Friday afternoon, at a press conference in the White House Rose Garden. It didn’t matter which correspondent Read More …

Last summer, the Crystal Serenity, a luxury cruise ship, embarked on a monthlong voyage through the Northwest Passage, the sea route that winds through Canada’s Arctic archipelago. The Serenity, which can accommodate more than a thousand passengers, headed through the Read More …

The view southward from the Asomante hills outside the Puerto Rican town of Aibonito is spectacular, reaching all the way to the Caribbean coast. A pretty little town situated in the island’s southeastern Cayey mountain range, Aibonito has the highest Read More …

Canada by Choice is a small, family-run immigration consultancy in Windsor, Ontario. It gives legal advice to people who are interested in moving to Canada and helps them fill out the necessary paperwork to enter the country. Hussein Zarif has Read More …

“Could I just say, I’m old,” Barack Obama said, at his first public event since becoming a former President. He was on a stage at the University of Chicago, with six young people, most of them students at other colleges Read More …

New Frontier Armory, near the Buffalo Wild Wings on Centennial Parkway, in North Las Vegas, is on the shortlist of places to go if you want to purchase an actual machine gun within twenty minutes of the Strip. “We’ve sold Read More …

Earlier this year, when Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s chief strategist, was at the peak of his influence, I visited him at the White House. “This is totally top secret,” he said, ushering me inside his office on a Saturday night Read More …