Give Donald Trump credit for one thing: he retains the ability to surprise people, especially his fellow-Republicans. In doing a deal with the Democrats Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi to raise the debt ceiling, pass a spending resolution, and provide Read More …
The most striking thing about the first meeting of President Trump’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, last Friday, in Washington, D.C., was how normal it was, like a throwback to some earlier, more rational Administration. Recognized Read More …
Jeremy Corbyn, the sixty-eight-year-old leftist who heads the opposition Labour Party in the U.K., wasn't scheduled to appear at the BBC’s televised general-election debate this week. With Theresa May, the Conservative Prime Minister, and the hot favorite to gain reëlection, Read More …
On the morning of November 16th, a few hours before a vast majority of Republicans in the House of Representatives voted for their party’s tax-reform plan, four Republican congressmen from New York held a press conference to express their displeasure Read More …
The district of Hodan, in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, exemplifies the city’s transformation in recent years. Visitors can find open-air pizza restaurants, ice-cream parlors and shisha bars, hotels and restaurants, barrow boys hawking bananas and mangoes, and taxis and Read More …
For the first time since the Syrian civil war began, Iranian-backed militias appear to have secured a road link from the Iranian border all the way to Syria’s Mediterranean coast. The new land route will allow the Iranian regime to Read More …
We hope you will join us on Facebook tonight for the fourth and final event in our “A Well-Ordered Nation” series, which addresses the Trump Administration, and which is co-produced by the Public Theatre and The New Yorker. “The Way Read More …
Wednesday marks the official opening of Parliament in the United Kingdom: an ancient ritual in which the monarch, decked out in full royal regalia, including the Imperial State Crown, reads out a list of legislation that the government hopes to Read More …
On Saturday, on a warm evening in London, there was a terrorist attack. Seven members of the public were killed, and forty-eight were injured. Two weeks ago, a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a concert in Manchester, killing twenty-two Read More …
In the first light of dawn on June 3rd, two rock climbers approached the base of El Capitan, the towering stone heart of Yosemite National Park. They were first overwhelmed—everyone is—by the sweep of golden granite reaching twenty-seven hundred feet Read More …