Real estate is a dynastic business. In the case of Donald Trump, his family’s property investments began with his grandfather, a German immigrant who ran hotels for gold prospectors in Northwestern boomtowns, and eventually bought land in Queens. The Trump Organization, as Read More …
Click:korean novel The mysterious case of Reza Zarrab, a Turkish-Iranian businessman facing federal charges in New York, has grown even stranger over the past couple of weeks. Zarrab, who is thirty-three, was arrested by F.B.I. agents, in Miami, last March. Read More …
On April 28, 1982, fifteen months into his first term, President Ronald Reagan went up to Capitol Hill to meet with Tip O’Neill, the Democratic Speaker of the House. The two Irish-American politicians had to that point been bitter enemies. As Read More …
“Is there any validity to the criticism of you that you say things you can’t back up factually?" Bill O'Reilly asked President Donald Trump, in a pre-Super Bowl interview in the White House. The President had said, for example, that Read More …
On the day of Donald Trump’s election, I happened to be in Amsterdam. That night, while people in the U.S. were still going to the polls, I found myself sitting in front of a room full of nervous-looking Europeans at Read More …
Donald Trump has had a fixation on Iraq’s oil—and America’s right to seize it—for at least six years. In 2011, he told a Fox News producer that the U.S. should “take the oil.” It was a common theme on the Read More …
Come the middle of March, a remotely curious college-hoops observer, innocently typing “March Madness” into Google, encounters a swarm of numbers related to the N.C.A.A.’s annual basketball tournament. Just a few days ago, ESPN.com published an eight-thousand-word story titled “Numbers to Read More …
After half a century of civil war, South Sudan declared independence from Sudan, in 2011. Two years later, the world’s youngest country erupted in its own civil war. In 2015, the combatants signed a peace agreement, but then the scales Read More …
Thursday marks eight years since the low point of the last bear market on Wall Street. On March 9, 2009, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 6,547.05. Since then, it has more than tripled. If you’d invested twenty thousand Read More …
“Americans severely misjudged the authoritarians,” Umair Haque, a consultant and social-media maven, commented on Twitter on Saturday night. "But the authoritarians, it seems, also severely misjudged Americans.'' Yes, they did, and this weekend’s events offered a bit of hope to Read More …