President Trump’s credibility as a world leader has been, to borrow his vulgarity, shot to shit. With one word—just the latest in a string of slurs about other nations and peoples—he has demolished his ability to be taken seriously on Read More …
Few witnesses in the Russia probe have been as eagerly anticipated by the press and congressional investigators as Donald Trump, Jr., the President’s oldest son. Trump, Jr., was whisked into a Capitol Hill hearing room Thursday morning undetected, depriving a Read More …
With the new school year starting, there is good news for incoming students of economics—and anybody else who wants to learn about issues like inequality, globalization, and the most efficient ways to tackle climate change. A group of economists from Read More …
In the early nineteen-eighties, soon after cases of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) were first discovered in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control named four groups at “high risk” for the disease: intravenous drug users, homosexuals, hemophiliacs, and Haitians. Read More …
On Monday, in Richmond, Virginia, before a thirteen-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, the deputy Solicitor General, Jeffrey Wall, was defending President Donald Trump’s motives with regard to the Administration’s latest executive-order travel ban, when Judge Henry Read More …
For a quarter century, Uzi Arad was one of Mossad’s top spies. He rose to become the director of its intelligence division. He later gained fame as a top aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Likud Party leader who Read More …
Senator Al Franken, of Minnesota, hates headlines that say “no joke.” He was subjected to a perhaps unprecedented run of them back when he was running for office for the first time, in 2008. “No Joke: Franken Announces Senate Bid,” Read More …
Three years ago, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi chose the Great Mosque of al-Nuri, in Mosul, as the site to proclaim his new Islamic State. The mosque, known as al-Hadba, or the “hunchback,” for its leaning minaret, is a fabled landmark in Read More …
Senator Dean Heller, of Nevada, is a buff fifty-seven-year-old moderate Republican from Carson City, a former stockbroker and the son of a stock-car racer. On Friday, he appeared at a press conference alongside the popular Republican governor of Nevada, Brian Read More …
One reliable way to know that Donald Trump has reversed himself on an issue is if he denies having done any such thing. The pattern repeats itself: his Administration is dealt a major setback—the courts blocking his travel bans, the Read More …