At 10 P.M. on Tuesday night, Houston’s NRG Center, a seven-hundred-thousand-square-foot exhibition space that hosts the livestock competitions for the city’s annual rodeo, opened its doors to evacuees from Tropical Storm Harvey. By the time I arrived, the following afternoon, Read More …
In the fall of 1989, the American consul-general in Hong Kong, Donald Anderson, asked a retired local politician to imagine the future: What might life be like after July 1, 1997, the day that Britain’s century-old lease on Hong Kong Read More …
For some time now, it has been clear that Donald Trump is wading ever deeper into the cesspool. From his reaction to the white-supremacist-inspired violence in Charlottesville, to his attempt to bar transgender people from serving in the armed forces, Read More …
In his first four months in office, President Donald Trump has shaken America’s democratic foundations at home and abandoned a powerful bipartisan commitment to human rights. Seemingly forgotten is the legacy of Ronald Reagan, who, in his first Inaugural Address, Read More …
On Monday, TVRain, the only private television outlet in Russia whose political coverage is not guided by loyalty to the Kremlin, showed a split screen to viewers. One live shot showed President Vladimir Putin giving an annual address marking Russia Read More …
Over the weekend, a massive truck bomb exploded in Mogadishu, the sprawling, once lovely capital of Somalia. The explosives went off on a Saturday afternoon, in a busy intersection, during a traffic jam, and killed an estimated three hundred people, Read More …
During my reporting for a profile of Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, this summer, I would occasionally find myself scrolling through the replies and comments on his various social-media feeds. Since he emerged as a national figure during his Read More …
Next Saturday, April 29th, is President Trump’s hundredth day in office, a historical marker used by the press to assess a new President’s progress since the first term of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. F.D.R. was grappling with the Great Depression, and he Read More …
Over the weekend, I re-read John R. O’Donnell’s book “Trumped! The Inside Story of the Real Donald Trump—His Cunning Rise and Spectacular Fall,” from 1991. O’Donnell was a longtime casino executive who ran the Trump Plaza, a Trump casino in Read More …
Earlier this week, two of Michael Flynn’s siblings announced that they had formed a legal-defense fund to help Flynn, the former national-security adviser, pay his legal bills. In early February, Flynn, who had become a focus of the ongoing F.B.I. Read More …