The cycle of lethal police violence, community outrage, and legal proceedings that yield no consequences came around again last Friday in St. Paul, Minnesota. A jury acquitted a police officer, Jeronimo Yanez, of all three charges—one count of second-degree manslaughter Read More …
Last September, Andrew Marr, the host of a Sunday morning political show on the BBC, interviewed Theresa May, the Conservative Party politician who had succeeded David Cameron as Britain's Prime Minister after the Leave side’s narrow victory in the Brexit Read More …
Last week, four days into a marathon court hearing that has exposed a hidden history of sexual abuse in American gymnastics, the two-time Olympian Aly Raisman joined the growing ranks of female athletes who have testified against the national team’s Read More …
Nearly a century ago, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., famously suggested, in defense of free speech, that “every idea is an incitement.” But are words themselves violence? The striking acceptance of the notion that some speech can constitute violence—and therefore has Read More …
Two weeks ago, when I spoke to Anthony Scaramucci, the former White House communications director—the same conversation in which he pilloried several colleagues, threatened to fire his entire staff, and claimed to have called the F.B.I. to investigate the White Read More …
Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, is the most effective politician of his generation. He may also be the least liked. Exit polls taken during last week’s special election in Alabama, a state as conservative as they come, found that Read More …
Late Monday night, the White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, issued a terse statement—sent to reporters via e-mail—warning Syria that U.S. intelligence had detected preparations for the use of chemical weapons, which “would likely result in mass murder of civilians, Read More …
Last November, a week after Donald Trump was elected President, I spoke on the phone with a fifty-five-year-old divorced college graduate—he declined to specify his alma mater—who had been working as a construction manager in Sacramento, California. The man, who Read More …
When the Washington _Post _reported, on Thursday, that the F.B.I. is investigating Jared Kushner’s meetings with Russian visitors, the news thrust the Russia probe to a new level of proximity to President Trump, reaching above former campaign aides to encompass the President’s Read More …
The Trump Administration confirmed on Friday that it is stopping, with immediate effect, billions of dollars in payments to insurers that help keep the cost of health coverage affordable for about seven million low-to-middle-income families. In a statement, the White Read More …