Three years ago, shortly after I moved to the city, I was introduced to the whisper network—the unofficial information channel that women use to warn each other about men whose sexual behavior falls on the spectrum from creepy to criminal—for Read More …
On Friday morning, Laura Loomer woke up early and took a Metro-North train from West Harrison, New York, where she lives, to Manhattan. She made her way to Central Park and secured a second-row ticket to that night’s performance of Read More …
Rafael Nadal had never seemed so calm—not at the U.S. Open, not in any Grand Slam final, perhaps not on any tennis court. With the final about to begin, he tapped his feet in that ants-in-his-pants way of his, but Read More …
The only way to begin talking about Bartolo Colón, the unlikely star pitcher who now plays for the Atlanta Braves, is with his age and his figure. As of today, May 24th, he is forty-four, the oldest player in professional Read More …
On Wednesday night, I received a phone call from Anthony Scaramucci, the new White House communications director. He wasn’t happy. Earlier in the night, I’d tweeted, citing a “senior White House official,” that Scaramucci was having dinner at the White Read More …
The problem of the Presidential tweet is circular. At the beginning of the Trump Presidency, it seemed that tweets might be a distraction or a sideline, a deletable part of the record. Some journalists advocated not covering the tweets at Read More …
Minutes before an international war-crimes tribunal in The Hague convicted him, last week, of committing genocide, Ratko Mladić, the former Serbian Army commander, now a doddering seventy-four-year-old man, mocked the charges against him. “Everything you said is pure lies,” Mladić Read More …
Donald Trump is now irrelevant to corporate America. That is the unequivocal message coming from some C.E.O.s, and the Wall Street bankers who work most closely with them. The new strategy by corporate executives to get the policies they once Read More …
Last summer, Thomas Homan, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the federal agency responsible for arresting and deporting undocumented immigrants, received high praise from the President. “Somebody said the other day, they saw him on television . . . ‘He looks very Read More …
This past Saturday night, as it has regularly for nearly two hundred years, the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre, draped by its famous scarlet and gold curtain, featured the long-anticipated première of a new ballet. Tickets sold out within hours Read More …