Tommy Haas, the thirty-eight-year-old German tennis player, was once one of the top players on the A.T.P. tour; he is now one of the oldest. He is also now the tournament director of the BNP Paribas Open, at Indian Wells—the Read More …
In terms of political theatre, Donald Trump’s press conference on Thursday was the event of the week, or maybe the year. Strictly in policy terms, though, it was less important than the media briefing that Paul Ryan, the House Speaker, Read More …
On Thursday, Donald Trump’s sixth full day in office, I asked a British friend for his initial impressions. Noting that the new American President had moved swiftly, signing executive orders to end Obamacare, complete the Dakota Access pipeline, and begin Read More …
On Tuesday morning, WikiLeaks released eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-one files that it said were “from an isolated, high-security network situated inside the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence,” in Langley, Virginia. The group called the collection “Year Zero,” the first installment of a Read More …
It is surely cold comfort to Hillary Clinton and her supporters that the inspector general of the Department of Justice will conduct an investigation of James Comey’s behavior on the eve of the Presidential election. But the decision by Michael Horowitz, Read More …
On his first full working day as President, Donald Trump chose to get things going by signing an executive order withdrawing the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a fledgling free-trade agreement that brought together a dozen Pacific Rim nations, Read More …
"My fellow-Americans," Donald Trump said in his weekly address on Friday, "It's an exciting time for our country. Our new Administration has so much change under way— change that is going to strengthen our Union and improve so many people’s lives." It's Read More …
Past the seats reserved for dignitaries, out beyond the point where Donald Trump was discernible from a distance, people huddled around the Jumbotron, like tailgaters around the grill. The mood was giddy and informal, a contrast to that of the Read More …
Over the weekend, Jeffrey Immelt, the chief executive of General Electric, the venerable manufacturing conglomerate that dates back to 1892—and Thomas Edison—issued a statement to G.E.’s employees distancing the company from Donald Trump’s travel bans on people from predominantly Muslim Read More …
One day in July, 2014, during a humanitarian crisis in which tens of thousands of Central American migrants crossed the U.S. border without papers, three government buses carried a group of women and children toward a Border Patrol station in Read More …