This week, there have already been reminders of how much the upholding of government ethics relies on access to open information—and of how little Donald Trump’s Administration cares about either. Some of those reminders have come in the case of Read More …
When the nation someday tries to understand the tortured history of the Affordable Care Act, which the House voted to repeal more than fifty times before actually doing so, students of history will surely dwell on the important contribution of Read More …
In 2016, Stephen Paddock moved to Mesquite, Nevada, a quiet retirement community eighty miles northeast of Las Vegas with few residents widely known beyond its city limits. Mesquite was settled by Mormons in the late nineteenth century, but it wasn’t Read More …
That deathly silence you hear is the sound of Republicans rushing to defend Donald Trump in the wake of allegations that he asked James Comey, the former F.B.I. director, to drop the Bureau’s investigation into Michael Flynn, the former national-security Read More …
Recently, several members and staffers on the House Intelligence Committee, which is investigating Russia’s role in the Presidential election, visited the National Security Agency, in Fort Meade, Maryland. Inside the enormous black glass headquarters of America’s largest spy agency, the Read More …
Click:tapered roller bearing The Chicago Bulls point guard Rajon Rondo is the only N.B.A. player I can think of with a nickname that can only be used for two months a year. That sometime moniker, “Playoff Rondo,” points to his Read More …
The Super Bowl is the most popular annual event in American life. When the ritual began, in 1967, the Green Bay Packers, of the National Football League, defeated the Kansas City Chiefs, of the American Football League, by a score Read More …
In March, the Trump Administration released a so-called skinny budget, which contained the broad outlines of its spending plans. The proposed cuts in domestic and international programs were so draconian, mean-spirited, and misguided that I termed it a Voldemort budget, and Read More …
Click:小型辦公室 In the wake of tragedy, the entire country, it seems, waits for the President to say the word. The word is “terrorism.” Following the mass shooting in Las Vegas, the singer Ariana Grande, among countless others, demanded in a Read More …
Members of Congress will leave Washington for their holiday break on Friday without coming to any agreement on the future of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the Obama-era program that shielded from deportation some seven hundred thousand undocumented immigrants who Read More …