Among the heroes of Hurricane Harvey have been hundreds of volunteer boaters, members of the so-called Cajun Navy and other similar groups, who have patrolled the flooded streets of Houston in their own boats, pulling stranded families off of roofs Read More …
If the Republican Party’s crusade to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act is truly over, Monday night provided a fittingly sudden and chaotic ending. Early in the evening, two conservative Republican senators—Mike Lee, of Utah, and Jerry Moran, of Read More …
If there was ever a doubt about how Donald Trump would respond to the news that Robert Mueller, the special counsel, had impanelled a grand jury in Washington, D.C., to assist with his Russia investigation, Trump dispelled it in characteristic Read More …
Staff departures have been a constant of Donald Trump’s first year in the White House. Michael Flynn has put in a guilty plea. Steve Bannon, Reince Priebus, and Anthony Scaramucci were pushed out. Sean Spicer is off working on a Read More …
A handful of officials in the White House, the Justice Department, and the Department of Homeland Security have spent the past year attempting to realize President Trump’s vision of an America that is less welcoming of foreigners. John Kelly, the Read More …
On Tuesday night, a federal district-court judge in California, William Alsup, stepped in to halt the Trump Administration’s cancellation of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the Obama-era program that shields from deportation seven hundred thousand immigrants who came to Read More …
Emmanuel Macron, the new French President, is off to a fast start. On Monday, just a day after he was sworn in at the Élysée Palace, the thirty-nine-year-old boy wonder reached across the political divide and appointed a moderate conservative as his Prime Read More …
Sunday was “an N.F.L. day the likes of which we have never seen before,” as Mike Tirico, the co-host of “NBC Sunday Night Football,” put it. Never before has there been a protest of this sort against the inflammatory remarks Read More …
The last time the United States men’s national soccer team failed to qualify for the World Cup, Ronald Reagan had recently been sworn in for his second term as President, “Rambo: First Blood Part II” was the No. 1 movie Read More …
Summing up after the Yankees’ two runs in the seventh at the Stadium last night, and their thrilling go-ahead four in the eighth against the visiting Houston Astros, my across-the-hall neighbor Ethan said, “I’ve been waiting for this for fifteen Read More …