On Thursday, Congressman Charlie Dent, a Republican from Pennsylvania first elected in 2004, announced that he would not seek reëlection next year. Dent was the second House Republican this week to announce his retirement rather than run for office in Read More …
In March, two months after President Trump took office, I received a text message from a veteran agent at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). I had been trying to find field agents willing to describe what life was like at Read More …
Last month, Greg Abbott, the Republican Governor of Texas, signed into law an anti-immigrant measure allowing local police officers to ask for the citizenship status of anyone they detain. This sort of provision—often called a “show me your papers” law—has Read More …
Most sheriffs in the United States are elected to the office. The practice dates to the seventeenth century, when English colonists in Virginia instituted a tradition from back home. (Whatever Attorney General Jeff Sessions may have wished to imply, in Read More …
When Jon Ossoff was the C.E.O. of the Emmy-winning production company Insight TWI, which has made documentaries exposing judiciary corruption in Ghana and war crimes in Iraq, among other subjects, he had a simple mantra for the company’s approach: “Name, Read More …
On the morning of June 7th, several spectators gathered by the side of a narrow country road in Ballig, on the Isle of Man, to witness the third full day of the Tourist Trophy—a weeklong series of motorcycle races held Read More …
On June 28th, a Reddit user named HanAssholeSolo posted a grainy animated GIF of Donald Trump body-slamming a person with a CNN logo for a head. Less than a week later, Trump himself tweeted a version of the short clip, Read More …
Last week, veering off script in a speech ostensibly about his tax plan, President Donald Trump touted yet another new accomplishment by his Administration. “America is being respected again,” Trump proclaimed at a campaign-style rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. “Something happened Read More …
On Wednesday morning, Politico reported that Steve Bannon, the self-styled “economic nationalist” who is Donald Trump’s senior political strategist, and Peter Navarro, the free-trade skeptic who heads up the newly formed National Trade Council at the White House, had drafted Read More …
A few weeks ago, Colton Merwin, a nineteen-year-old from Maryland who recently dropped out of college, decided to organize a rally on the National Mall. “I got all the permits and stuff myself,” he said. “It was pretty easy, actually.” Read More …