On a March afternoon, as gray clouds gathered overhead, Boniface Mwangi procrastinated outside the walled Kariokor Market, in Nairobi, scrolling through text messages on his iPhone. Mwangi is thirty-four years old and a well-known political activist whose tactics frequently put Read More …
The country owes Senator Susan Collins, of Maine, a big vote of thanks. Absent her steadfastness over the past few months, the G.O.P. might have succeeded in blowing up Obamacare. If that had happened, many millions of Americans would now Read More …
On July 19, 2016, a little more than a month after he met with a Kremlin-connected lawyer who he thought might help to damage Hillary Clinton’s Presidential campaign, Donald Trump, Jr., spoke in support of his father at the Republican Read More …
As the Trump Administration stumbles on, Democrats’ thoughts turn to the elections of 2018 and 2020. Despite Trump's current troubles, many of them believe that the Party faces a painful dilemma: Should it champion progressive policies that will energize its Read More …
On Wednesday, Donald Trump insisted that his declaration that the United States recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital was “nothing more or less than the recognition of reality,” given that Israel has made West Jerusalem the seat of its government since Read More …
“This is quite an historic day for us . . . We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to do something really big," Gary Cohn, the former president of Goldman Sachs, who now serves as President Trump's top economic adviser, told reporters Read More …
The last Presidential election drove many liberals to muse about packing up and fleeing to Canada. Not many actually did so, but Cori Carl had already made good on the fantasy. She and her wife were committed New Yorkers but Read More …
Every President is surprised, at the beginning of his term, at how difficult it is to move legislation through Congress, but Donald Trump seems not to have known even the most rudimentary facts about the legislative system before assuming office. Read More …
Baseball tonight—the Houston Astros and the Yankees, up at the Stadium—and grab it if you can. This is the best part of the baseball year, the mid-series three games of the four-out-of-seven League Championships, when the batters will be facing Read More …
Outside the Westin hotel in Sandy Springs, Georgia, it rained hard all day on Tuesday. By nightfall, dozens of satellite dishes sprouted up around the hotel like giant mushrooms in the suburban mist. Inside, the final rally for Jon Ossoff Read More …