The latest edition of “Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly,” which aired last night, opens with a shot of a bulky man hunched over a desk, fiddling with a yellow highlighter, casting a sideways glance at the camera. “Pizzagate, as it’s Read More …
On Monday morning, President Trump finally got around to reciting a few appropriate sentences about the lethal violence that white supremacists had unleashed over the weekend at a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. “Racism is evil,” the President announced. The guilty Read More …
Terrorists, on Wednesday, attacked two of the most important symbols of Iran’s Islamic government—its well-guarded parliament building and the lavish shrine where the revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini is buried. The basic facts, as reported by Iranian media, followed a Read More …
Certainty has been the condition of the evening programs on Fox News for a generation, but on Tucker Carlson’s show on Wednesday night, which aired just a few hours after the Justice Department announced it had appointed a special counsel Read More …
On the first day of his second hundred days in office, Donald Trump visited familiar terrain: Trump National Golf Club, in Sterling, Virginia. According to Mark Knoller, a White House correspondent for CBS News, it was the twentieth visit that Trump Read More …
According to news accounts, the tax plan that the Trump Administration will release on Wednesday won't be a comprehensive proposal but, rather, a statement of general principles—a glorified wish list. It's well known in Washington that the staffers working for Read More …
On Tuesday, the U.S. men’s national team travelled to the Olímpico Metropolitano, in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, for a World Cup qualifying match against the Honduran national team. Not long ago, few would have imagined that the contest would be Read More …
On a sweltering afternoon in Istanbul last summer, loud noises woke the Turkish novelist Aslı Erdoğan from a nap. “Open, police! Open, or we will break the door,” a voice called. When Erdoğan, an award-winning writer, unlocked her door, the Read More …
In the Chinese media, Jared Kushner’s name almost never appears without the title diyi nǚxu, or First Son-in-Law. But, from a Chinese perspective, First Son-in-Law, as a job description, supersedes even Kushner’s official role as a senior adviser to Donald Read More …
Sean Spicer, whose job, until Friday morning, was to speak extemporaneously on behalf of the Trump Administration, was never much good at extemporaneous speaking. Earlier this year, while working on a piece about the West Wing’s mounting conflicts with the Read More …