Last week, Pew Research published a “political typology,” a schema of nine voter categories it had invented, on the basis of a national poll of political attitudes, to capture the ideological state of the nation. Pew has been doing this Read More …
Today, in the fourth round at Wimbledon, Gilles Müller served at 4–3 against Rafael Nadal in the second set. Müller has a huge, lefty serve that had been troubling Nadal all day, and Nadal simply blocked it back toward the Read More …
What was it about an arena full of teen and preteen children and their parents, listening to an American pop singer, that so offended the man who detonated the bomb in Manchester last night? We don’t know for sure, although Read More …
On Tuesday, in a convention center in West Palm Beach, Florida, amid chants of “USA!” and “The wall is going to be built!,” Donald Trump, Jr., kicked off a three-day annual summit for Turning Point USA, a conservative nonprofit. Based Read More …
Last February, Michael Flynn, who was then the national-security adviser, huddled with top aides in his White House office. Flynn had been under fire for days, since press reports revealed that he had misled the Vice-President and other officials regarding Read More …
In her new book, “What Happened,” Hillary Clinton writes that Senator Bernie Sanders “isn’t a Democrat.” Technically, she’s right. Sanders’s own Web site describes him as “the longest serving independent member of Congress in American history.” But as Clinton sets Read More …
Many people were blamed, last summer, after the citizens of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, but the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who had been a squishy and tepid opponent of Brexit, was blamed more than most. Read More …
One of the overlooked aspects of yesterday’s news that the F.B.I. is interested in Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, is that Kushner played a role in the firing of James Comey, the former F.B.I. director. Kushner is not formally a target of Read More …
The Presidents Xi and Trump have several things in common: both entered professions in which their fathers gave them natural advantages. (Xi Jinping’s father, the revolutionary hero Xi Zhongxun, helped build China’s Communist Party; Donald Trump inherited a fortune, and Read More …
On May 2nd, as a U.S. carrier-strike group cruised the waters off the Korean peninsula, anticipating that North Korea might soon conduct a sixth nuclear test, Pyongyang’s propagandists were ready with an apocalyptic prediction. “Our preemptive nuclear attacks will bring Read More …