While New Yorkers sweep leaves from their driveways and South Texans play in the snow this week, thousands of Southern Californians are still anxiously awaiting evacuation orders and watering their roofs to protect against flames. The Thomas fire, the colossus Read More …
Since 1990, the U.S. men’s national team has qualified for the World Cup, the quadrennial soccer spectacle, seven successive times, making it one of only seven countries in the world to do so. This uninterrupted success is due, in part, Read More …
Hussein Agha and Ahmad Samih Khalidi have been involved in Palestinian peace negotiations for three decades, and are senior associate members of St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and co-authors of “A Framework for a Palestinian National Security Doctrine.” Agha most recently Read More …
“There’s just something about this job as President . . .” George W. Bush observed last week, in an interview with NPR. “You think one thing going in and then the pressures of the job or the realities of the Read More …
On Sunday evening, in the North End of Beaumont, Texas, Jorden Robinson stood in ankle-deep water outside his grandmother’s house, at 4460 Swift Drive, wearing a tank top, sweatpants, and mismatched socks. He had lost his shoes in the floods, Read More …
Among American basketball fans, the offensive scheme known as the Triangle has become a bit of a joke lately. Writers have referred to it as “outdated” and “obtuse.” In January, Mike D’Antoni, the Houston Rockets coach, who is regarded as Read More …
On Thursday, a fine spring day in Washington, D.C., Donald Trump took to the podium in the White House’s Rose Garden and announced that he was pulling the United States out of the Paris climate-change agreement. In doing so, he Read More …
In 2010, as Cyrus Vance, Jr., took office as Manhattan’s new District Attorney, he promised that “crimes committed by the affluent, the powerful, or by public officials will be investigated and prosecuted as vigorously as street crimes.” Today, his office’s Read More …
On the morning of Friday, July 20, 1787, delegates to the Constitutional Convention, in Philadelphia, addressed the question of whether or not a President could be impeached while in office. A king might be beheaded, a Prime Minister toppled. What Read More …
Two and a half hours before college football’s national-championship game in Atlanta last night, between the University of Georgia Bulldogs and Alabama’s Crimson Tide, a frigid rain fell on a small group that gathered near the stadium. Jack Turner, a Read More …