This summer, Iraqi forces finally drove ISIS out of Mosul and most of northern Iraq. But for the Yazidis, a long persecuted religious and ethnic minority who practice a faith with pre-Zoroastrian roots and Islamic and Christian influences, stability is Read More …

Is soccer a matter of life and death? “It’s much more serious than that,” the droll Bill Shankly, who managed Liverpool in the club’s glory days, once remarked. But how much more? “Us, out of the World Cup?” Carlo Tavecchio, Read More …

In 2017, the politics in every state have been tribal and atavistic, but nowhere so much as in Virginia. In August, extremists staged a horrifying rally in Charlottesville that began with young men gathering under Nazi flags and ended in Read More …

Last Wednesday, a tanker truck, one of many that carry empty septic tanks in Kabul, a city with no sewage system, navigated through bumper-to-bumper traffic past the Afghan intelligence agency’s compound, the residence of former President Hamid Karzai, and the Read More …

When Andrew Breitbart, the bellicose founder of Breitbart News, died, in 2012, he left behind a lot of memorable footage. There’s the clip of him hijacking one of Anthony Weiner’s press conferences, in 2011; there’s the appearance on Fox News, Read More …

The U.S. Open is nearing its dramatic climaxes, the semifinals and the finals, and its narrative threads are becoming clearer. One of them—to me, maybe the most memorable, even if it doesn’t figure in the making of a champion—has been Read More …

More than three decades before the F.B.I. began investigating whether members of Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign had colluded with the Russian government, James Comey—the Bureau’s recently fired director—envisioned a Russian conquest of America. He was then a senior at the Read More …

The first four months of the Trump Administration have generated many real headlines that could have appeared first in a satirical publication such as the Onion or The New Yorker’s own The Borowitz Report. But the headline that appeared on Read More …

In the past year, I have been asked many times to reflect and comment and commiserate on the state of our country. Each time, as I recount my own experience, I try to stress how important it is that when Read More …

When James Comey, the director of the F.B.I., testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Senator Dianne Feinstein, the ranking minority member of the committee, got right down to business—forcing Comey to explain his decision to insert himself into Read More …