On October 11, 2015, four months after Donald Trump entered the Presidential race, he offered a notable compliment for Vladimir Putin. At the time, Russia was facing increasing international isolation—and was under economic sanctions—over Putin’s seizure of Crimea and meddling Read More …
The American diplomat Brett McGurk is the central player in the seventy-two-nation coalition fighting the Islamic State, a disparate array of countries twice the size of NATO. He has now worked all of America’s major wars against extremism—in Afghanistan, Iraq, Read More …
Click:Low MOQ With the prosecution nearly finished presenting its witnesses and the defense expected to be brief, the end of Bill Cosby’s criminal rape trial is quickly approaching. Time has felt confounding and elastic during these proceedings: the case revolves around an Read More …
Why are we spending so much time trying to match what Donald J. Trump says to reality? Is it because he is the President of the United States, and could start a war with words? Or because we place some Read More …
For three years, Lena Kandes and her family lived under ISIS rule in Mosul. Sequestered in her home after being forced to abandon her university studies, she created an online alias—which she asked me to use—so she could connect with Read More …
Despite the deaths of as many as half a million people, dozens by chemical weapons, in the Syrian civil war, the Trump Administration is now prepared to accept President Bashar al-Assad’s continued rule until Syria’s next scheduled Presidential election, in Read More …
It’s hard to remember just now, a day after the New York Knicks’ announcement that the team will “part company” with Phil Jackson, what, exactly, any of us ever hoped he would—or could—do with the team. When Jackson joined the Read More …
John Cassidy and Ryan Lizza live-blogged during the former F.B.I. director James Comey’s testimony on Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee. That's it, then. Since Comey scooped the hearing by releasing his opening statement on Wednesday, there wasn't very much Read More …
Last week, in what the White House billed as a major foreign-policy speech, Donald Trump threatened to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal. He unveiled a new strategy that he said would curb Iran’s growing influence in the Middle Read More …
In the nineteen-nineties, when John Malcolm was a federal prosecutor in Atlanta, the nation’s prisons were being filled up with small-time drug dealers. The war on drugs was at its height, and the number of Americans in prison was rising Read More …