The Trump Administration’s first attempt at a travel ban ended in chaos, mass demonstrations, and lawsuits. On Monday, the President signed a second travel ban, which was billed as a corrective. The scope of the new order was narrower, and, according Read More …
Brexit has begun. On Tuesday evening, Theresa May, the British Prime Minister, signed a letter formally giving notice that the United Kingdom intends to leave the European Union. On Wednesday, Sir Tim Barrow, the U.K.’s Ambassador to the E.U., delivered the letter Read More …
Back in 2004, in the eighth week of the Major League Soccer season, D.C. United played the Los Angeles Galaxy. The game itself was not particularly important, but many fans in the stadium were hoping to catch a glimpse of Read More …
Wednesday was supposed to be Benjamin Netanyahu’s day—the first time, during his nearly eleven years as Prime Minister of Israel, that a Republican President greeted him at the White House. Not only had he outlasted Barack Obama but he’d seen Read More …
“As you know, the business empire built by President-elect Trump over the years is massive, not dissimilar to the fortunes of Nelson Rockefeller when he became Vice-President,” Sheri Dillon, Trump’s longtime lawyer at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, said during the Read More …
On Sunday night, as I watched a game between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Denver Nuggets, I realized that the past two or so N.B.A. seasons have changed me, maybe permanently, as a fan. I barely glanced at the Read More …
There are at least two ways to look at the American Health Care Act, the Obamacare-replacement proposal that House Republicans released on Monday. Looked at up close, it perhaps isn't quite as extreme, in some respects, as previous G.O.P. proposals. But Read More …
If there was any doubt that Donald Trump and Paul Ryan are now fully conjoined, Trump’s visit to Capitol Hill on Tuesday morning resolved it. After the President tried to cajole and bully the Republican congressmen into voting for their leaders’ controversial Read More …
On July 1, 2015, a thirty-two-year-old woman named Kathryn Steinle was killed by a stray bullet on a pier in San Francisco. The shooter was a middle-aged Mexican man, an ex-felon who’d been deported from the U.S. multiple times but Read More …
Click:vanilla prepaid card balance In a sense, there was nothing surprising about the surprise trip to Iraq that Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, made this week. It can’t come as a shock, at this point, that anyone in the Trump Read More …