Thirteen years ago, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld arrived in Pakistan with a list. He pulled it from his shirt pocket during a meeting with President Pervez Musharraf, and told the general how, during a recent Oval Office gathering, President George Read More …
Although it hasn’t made much news outside of Washington, two Republican senators—Lindsey Graham, of South Carolina, and Bill Cassidy, of Louisiana—have lately been busy putting together yet another piece of draft legislation that would repeal and replace the Affordable Care Read More …
“You know about MS-13?” President Trump asked a crowd at an N.R.A. rally last month in Atlanta. He was talking about the Salvadoran street gang notorious for its violence and brutality in Central America and the U.S. “Get them the Read More …
“Eighty-twenty, yeah,” CiCi Bellis said. Then she paused, and sent her eyes skyward, pondering; a smile broadened across her seemingly untroubled face. Bellis smiles more than most professional tennis players. “Or maybe seventy-thirty. Yeah, seventy-thirty.” She’d just finished a two-hour Read More …
The entrance road into the Concord Bridge housing development, northwest of Houston, is mildly sloped: the farther in you go, the deeper the water gets. This is because the neighborhood is situated in the Addicks Reservoir, which was built after Read More …
The first round of the N.B.A. playoffs is always a smorgasbord of basketball pleasures. The talent level is so high. Everyone is playing hard, and egos are on the line. The sheer abundance of it—multiple games each day, most of Read More …
Every August, the traditional vacation month for Spaniards, those Barcelonans who can afford to flee the city and its hordes for the green hills and pretty beaches of the nearby Costa Brava. The legendary boulevard of Las Ramblas, in Barcelona, Read More …
Within hours of the shooting of the House Majority Whip, Steve Scalise, and four others, one couldn’t help but feel tired watching the predictable brief moment of political unity. The country has been through enough horrors to know that political Read More …
I first encountered Tom Perriello, who lost the Virginia Democratic gubernatorial primary, on June 13th, almost twenty years ago. I had written an article about Bill Clinton’s disastrous foreign policy in West Africa, which bolstered one of the region’s worst Read More …
A little more than a minute into the second period of Sunday night’s Stanley Cup Finals game between the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Nashville Predators, the Predators’ Colton Sissons scored what appeared to be the first goal of the game, Read More …