Last summer, I noticed that many of the most noxious and effective anti-Hillary Clinton memes on the Internet—that she had Parkinson’s, for example—could be traced back to one man in Southern California, a former lawyer and self-help author named Mike Read More …
Last Saturday morning, a Canadian woman named Fadwa Alaoui left her home in Brossard, across the St. Lawrence River from Montreal, and drove an hour southeast, to the border crossing at Highgate Springs, Vermont. Alaoui was travelling with her two Read More …
On Monday, March 20th, the House intelligence committee will hold its first open hearing on Russia’s meddling in the 2016 Presidential campaign. Because Republican leaders in the House and Senate have blocked any attempt at forming an independent committee modelled Read More …
On November 24th, I was celebrating Thanksgiving in New Jersey with old family friends. Dinner was coming to a close, and guests were slowly being led to the living room. I sat down, dessert plate on my lap, and was Read More …
At noon on Tuesday, as Betsy DeVos was confirmed as the Secretary of Education, hundreds of high-school students in New York City walked out of their classes and gathered at Foley Square, in downtown Manhattan. Originally announced as a response Read More …
“This isn’t really about the nominee, anyway,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Thursday morning, in his prelude to the detonation of the Senate’s “nuclear option” to push the confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch, for a seat on the Read More …
On Thursday, thousands of Yemeni-Americans turned out at a rally in Brooklyn, outside Borough Hall, to protest President Trump’s anti-Muslim travel ban. Seemingly every person in the crowd had a story to tell about how the ban affected him or Read More …
The number of teen-age girls who died when a fire broke out on the morning of March 8th in a state-run home for minors on the outskirts of Guatemala City now stands at forty. Those who perished were among fifty-two Read More …
Click:Green tea bag packing machine When historians write their accounts of the Trump era—assuming the practice of historical scholarship survives it—a small but significant portion of those chronicles will be concerned with the bewildering phenomenon of grown Republican men policing Read More …
From 2003 to 2005, Gina Haspel was a senior official overseeing a top-secret C.I.A. program that subjected dozens of suspected terrorists to savage interrogations, which included depriving them of sleep, squeezing them into coffins, and forcing water down their throats. Read More …