Ivanka Trump’s announcement this week that she would take an unpaid federal job in the White House makes official the familial coziness of President Donald Trump’s Administration. Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, with his-and-hers security clearances and offices in the Read More …
It was “insane,” a “marathon rant” at the media, and “a press conference for the ages.” Before you accuse me of liberal bias, these were the terms that Fox Business Network’s Charles Gasparino, the home page of the New York Read More …
Earlier this week, a judge in the Bronx ruled in the case of Edward Garry, who has served more than twenty years in prison for the murder, in 1995, of a retired N.Y.P.D. detective. The judge’s opinion ran sixty-one pages, but Read More …
There were several ghosts present at the ceremony on Tuesday night, in the East Room of the White House, at which President Donald Trump introduced Judge Neil Gorsuch, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, as Read More …
On September 17, 1787, as Benjamin Franklin was leaving the deliberations of the Constitutional Convention, at Independence Hall, in Philadelphia, a woman called out to him, saying, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” “A republic,” Read More …
A quick reminder: when trying to figure out what Donald Trump is up to, it always pays to heed Deep Throat’s advice and follow the loot. The past few days have been busy ones on the Trump money beat. Although Read More …
Yesterday afternoon, Kellyanne Conway, President Donald Trump’s counsellor, was receiving a training that would allow her to obtain top-secret security clearances when an aide came to pull her out of the meeting. That morning, Conway had appeared on Fox News. Read More …
On Tuesday morning, at about the time that Donald Trump was casually threatening to destroy the career of a Texas state senator who had objected to laws regarding the forfeiture of property from drug suspects, House Speaker Paul Ryan and Read More …
Sean Spicer, the new White House press secretary, made it clear in his first official briefing that, like his boss, he would break with Washington precedents. After he stepped to the lectern yesterday and read a lengthy readout of the Read More …
Things are not well in Brazil. The country’s social and economic tensions are rising and seem increasingly prone to erupt into violence. For the past six days, for instance, there has been a frenzy of looting, mugging, rioting, and murder Read More …