Just before 3:20 on Monday afternoon, Devin Nunes, the Republican head of the House Intelligence Committee, asked James Comey, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who was testifying before the committee on his agency’s investigation into Russian interference Read More …

Let the recriminations begin! Actually, the health-care-failure finger-pointing got under way well before Friday, when Donald Trump and Paul Ryan cancelled a House vote on the American Health Care Act. A day earlier, aides to the President let it be Read More …

We have come to expect everything from a match between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal—everything, that is, except that it would happen. Coming into the Australian Open, they had met thirty-four times. No one had reason to suspect that there Read More …

Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced Saturday that he’d been fired by the Trump Administration. Bharara was among the forty-six U.S. Attorneys, all holdovers from the Obama Administration, who were abruptly asked to Read More …

On a crisp spring day in March, in the northern city of Sulaymaniyah, I met Abu Islam, a senior ISIS leader nicknamed the Ghost of ISIS by Iraqi intelligence for his elusiveness. He was escorted into a small office with Read More …

In 2011, Kalimah Truesdale was at her job as a sales associate at Home Depot when she got a phone call informing her that her brother had just been arrested. Two years earlier, a teen-age boy had been shot to Read More …

On Monday, when the House Intelligence Committee held its first public hearing about Russian involvement in the U.S. Presidential election, Republican members were almost completely focussed on leaks. In his opening statement, Devin Nunes, the chairman of the committee, made Read More …

Barack Obama’s final press conference as President, which took place on Wednesday afternoon in the White House briefing room, was a curious affair. On the face of things, it was a low-key event, in which Obama seemed to go out Read More …

John Dhoul and Mabeny Naam started playing basketball in 2013, just two years after South Sudan, where they were born, gained its independence. Gifted athletes, the boys, who are sixteen and fifteen, respectively, were among twenty-five students selected last fall Read More …

Click: Aboard the South African warship Amatola, everyone has a role and a pair of words to describe it. The buffers make sure the vessel is “spick and span,” the engineers keep it “up and running,” and the communications team Read More …