On Wednesday, Richard Burr and Mark Warner, the two leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee, the body that is widely considered to be the most likely to produce a bipartisan report about Russia and Donald Trump, gave a press briefing Read More …
Husam Zomlot is the Palestinian front man in Washington. Born in a Gaza refugee camp, he has a doctorate in economics from the University of London and was a research fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center. Now in his mid-forties, he represents a new generation of Read More …
Linda Peterson is a seventy-one-year-old retired computer-sales executive in Auburn, Alabama. She lives alone with her dog, Otis, and she always votes Republican. She’s been following the state’s G.O.P. Senate runoff, which takes place next Tuesday, closely. The race to Read More …
President Trump is a selfish liar, and a vain one. Those traits, together, can cause chaos, as they did on Thursday, when, in an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt, Trump undermined his own alibi for firing the F.B.I. director, James Read More …
A year and a half ago, the world got a new heavyweight boxing champion, when an unpredictable Englishman named Tyson Fury found a way to wrangle Wladimir Klitschko, the stalwart Ukrainian. Klitschko, along with his older brother, Vitali, had ruled Read More …
Senior Republican officials in Alabama—like senior officials in the White House and, indeed, like President Trump himself—have refused to break with Roy Moore, their party’s nominee in next month’s special Senate election, who has been accused of pursuing, harassing, and Read More …
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski have just caused a sensation by claiming, in effect, that they were extorted by Donald Trump and the National Enquirer. According to their op-ed in the Washington Post, White House staffers told them that the Read More …
On Friday, June 16th, Lebanon quietly ended one of the longest stretches of government paralysis in post-Second World War history. The parliament met to ratify a new electoral law that will govern national elections next year, nearly a decade after Read More …
Next week is tax-reform week. If you’re not familiar with the White House’s branded weeks, previous Trump policies that received their own weeks have included infrastructure, workforce development, and energy. The branded weeks have become a popular joke on social Read More …
It is often said that the U.S. Presidency is a relatively weak office—but that is a contingent statement. To prevent the President from gaining too much power, or abusing that power, the Founding Fathers divided authority among the different branches Read More …