The Inciter-in-Chief has outdone himself. In an interview with the Times of London and Germany's Bild published a few days ago, Donald Trump called NATO "obsolete," described the European Union as a German scheme to get the best of the United States, Read More …
There were many issues to cover during the confirmation hearing for Rex Tillerson, the former C.E.O. of ExxonMobil who is the President-elect’s nominee for Secretary of State, all of them containing the potential for fireworks: climate change; Tillerson’s financial entanglements; Read More …
On Thursday, Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump’s most influential adviser, and Reince Priebus, Trump’s frequently embattled chief of staff, spoke together at the Conservative Political Action Conference, the annual gathering for activists, politicians, and media professionals on the right. Bannon Read More …
For days, the political world had been waiting nervously for the Congressional Budget Office's assessment of the House Republicans' Trump-endorsed proposal to replace Obamacare. On Monday afternoon, when the numbers-heavy report finally appeared, one figure it contained dominated all the others: twenty-four Read More …
One of the strangest sentences in American law comes from Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. “Under the First Amendment,” he wrote, in 1974, “there is no such thing as a false idea.” That is not a decree that the world Read More …
In January, 1993, the New York City Council moved unanimously to erect a sign at the intersection of Bleecker and Mott streets designating the small corner on the eastern edge of the West Village as Margaret Sanger Square. The bill, introduced Read More …
If there is a single person who made Paul Ryan the Speaker of the House, it is probably Mark Meadows. Back in 2015, Meadows, a former restaurant owner who, in 2012, was elected to represent the most conservative district in Read More …
What should—what will—protests against Donald Trump be like? I asked myself this question early yesterday morning while riding a bus down to Washington from New York. My bus left from Trinity Church, near Wall Street. On the bus were teen-agers, Read More …
On Friday morning in South Korea, the eight judges of the country’s Constitutional Court appeared live on national television, sitting solemn-faced in their high-back, red-velvet chairs. Three months earlier, the country’s conservative President, Park Geun-hye, had been impeached by the Read More …
The moral case for President Trump’s strike on Syria is uncontroversial. Bashar al-Assad is a heinous dictator who has been terrorizing his own people for years, and the most recent crime against innocents of which he’s been accused—indiscriminately killing dozens Read More …