Donald Trump has built his political career on his reputation as a successful businessman, so it seems fair to assess his recent performance as President as if he were a C.E.O. running U.S.A., Inc. The report card isn’t pretty. Indeed, Read More …
When the President met the Pope at the Vatican, last week, it was as if they were members of different species, so far apart in values and style that the actual content of what separated them proved elusive. Francis slyly Read More …
Click:Oily scalp treatment It didn’t take long for our President to declare the appointment of a special counsel for the Russia inquiry “the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history.” Historical literacy has never been for everyone. Read More …
It makes some sense that, after Anthony Scaramucci, the President’s incoming communications director, told The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza that he was setting the F.B.I. on Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff, the two men couldn’t work together Read More …
On a scorching day in August, 2006, Wajeha al-Huwaider threw off her abaya, the enveloping black cover worn by Saudi women, and donned a calf-length pink shirt, pink trousers, and a matching pink scarf. She then took a taxi, from Read More …
In this mad Presidency, there have been many mad days, but Friday may have been the maddest yet. It began in the morning, with Donald Trump issuing yet another war threat on Twitter. “Military solutions are now fully in place, Read More …
In the women’s final of the French Open on Saturday, Jelena Ostapenko was fearless. The word was inescapable. It was repeated on television, on Twitter, in the headlines that announced her 4–6, 6–4, 6–3 win over Simona Halep. It was Read More …
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson might not have his job for much longer, but his tenure may well be regarded as the most consequential in postwar American history: not for what he built but for what he destroyed. In only Read More …
For a long time, the U.S. has seen Azerbaijan, the oil-and-gas-rich, human-rights-poor former Soviet Republic, in much the same way that Allen and John Foster Dulles saw the entire world in the nineteen-fifties. For the brothers—one running the C.I.A., the Read More …
Even before President Trump set foot on Polish soil, the leader of the country’s ruling right-wing Law and Justice Party, the former Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński, declared Trump’s decision to visit Warsaw a “new success” for Poland that made other Read More …