In January, two days after Donald Trump was inaugurated as President, an anti-government-corruption group called Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a lawsuit against him to great fanfare. The suit alleged that Trump was violating the Constitution’s Read More …
Many people who don’t use Medicaid think of it as a federal health-care program for the impoverished and destitute, but it’s much more than that. In the past couple of decades, as incomes have stagnated and health-care costs have accelerated, Read More …
In 1981, I accompanied the secretary-general of Israel’s Labor Party, Haim Bar-Lev, on a visit to Jerusalem’s Moroccan fruit market. Bar-Lev, a storied former Army chief of staff, was distributing flowers in an effort to show voters that the leaders Read More …
Simon Tam fought for eight years to register the trademark for his all-Asian rock band, the Slants. Tam said that the name—a reference to slanted eyes—was an effort to reclaim a racial epithet for Asians and transform a derogatory term Read More …
Reports of Steve Bannon’s death were greatly exaggerated. Just a few weeks ago, President Trump’s chief political adviser and the most controversial figure in the West Wing was considered a spent force. Some reports said he was going to resign. Others Read More …
Mosul’s forlorn little zoo, a collection of rusted cages in a park near the Tigris River, was abandoned by its keepers in October, as the Iraqi Army began to liberate the city from the Islamic State. For three months, the Read More …
In January, during the hearings to consider Donald Trump’s nomination of Jeff Sessions, then a senator, for Attorney General, Senator Mike Lee, the Republican of Utah, noted that whoever held that office had a good deal of “flexibility” on the Read More …
Last Wednesday, Serena Williams posted a selfie to Snapchat that showed her in a bright yellow one-piece swimsuit, her body cocked to the side to reveal a small but distinct baby bump. Beneath the photo was the caption “20 weeks.” Read More …
On November 7th, the dwindling tribe of Communist Party loyalists and nostalgists will commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. Vladimir Putin, however, has made it clear that the centenary is not an occasion for state celebration. While the Read More …
D.—he asked that I not use his name—moved to the United States from Haiti with his parents in 2001, when he was nine years old. They travelled from Port-au-Prince on tourist visas, and then stayed beyond the authorized time period Read More …