The first time I heard the name of Robert E. Lee, in a fifth-grade classroom in suburban Connecticut, I was secretly thrilled, if also discomfited, to discover that a man who had played such a pivotal role in the American Read More …
In the major leagues this season, batters have been hitting the ball so hard, and so far, that pitchers are suggesting foul play. “There’s just something different about the baseballs,” one veteran reliever complained earlier this summer. “I don’t have Read More …
Yes, it was the Yankees again last night, a relatively easy 7–3 win at the Stadium that began in the rain and featured a thrilling seven-inning, nine-strikeout performance by their twenty-three-year-old ace, Luis Severino. This was the third lose-and-you’re-out win Read More …
Not so long ago, President Donald Trump had backers of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process worried and Israeli settlers and annexationists elated. Many were convinced that a change in U.S. policy toward Israel was imminent, not least because the President’s three Read More …
A little more than five years ago, Jeremy Lin, then a guard for the New York Knicks, had one of the most remarkable weeks that the N.B.A. has ever seen. An undrafted player who had received, up to that point, Read More …
Who would have thought that a poet could have offered succor on a day like this? But he did. His name is Tony Walsh, a Manchester writer who goes by the handle “Longfella”—because of his greater-than-average height, one assumes. In Read More …
Someday, when all that’s been happening has receded into the semi-distant past, historians may be able to answer a fascinating question: What were the people who worked for Donald Trump, the nation’s forty-fifth President, really saying to one another? It’s Read More …
Most sports fans root for their favorite teams. Then there are those who build their entire lives around them. These are the people who go shirtless in a football stadium on a freezing day, who paint their faces and get Read More …
In the indictment against Paul Manafort, made public on Monday, with the first wave of revelations in the Mueller investigation, there’s a telling pattern that appears on pages 7 through 14 in a listing of dozens of payments that overseas Read More …
Stewart Detention Center, in Lumpkin, Georgia, is a hundred and forty miles southwest of Atlanta. Past razor-wire fences and security checkpoints, there’s a small, hot room where visitors who’ve received permission can meet with detainees. A few weeks ago, I Read More …