President Donald Trump can be scattershot in his tweets, as seemed to be the case with the range of subjects he chose in the space of a few hours on Friday morning: Scotland Yard, “loser terrorists,” ESPN, Barack Obama, the Read More …
At a campaign rally in Fort Dodge, Iowa, Donald Trump, speaking of the Islamic State, once told supporters, “I would bomb the shit out of ’em. I would just bomb those suckers.” During Trump’s nascent tenure as Commander-in-Chief, air strikes Read More …
Brazilians know their political crises better than most. On social media, some like to joke that the chaos of Donald Trump’s Presidency is simply _gringos imitando—_foreigners copying us. Others suggest that Brazil should offer the U.S. assistance in setting up Read More …
In the main hospital in the Yemeni port city of Hudaydah this August, the malnutrition ward overflowed with patients. In the corridor, a man sat on the floor, with two children beside him whose ribs protruded under their pale skin. Read More …
President Donald Trump is now trying to break the health-care system all by himself, although he has more help than he might acknowledge. On Thursday, Trump launched an assault on Obamacare from two angles. First, the White House staged a Read More …
Maybe there is actually something right with Kansas. On Tuesday, Democrats in the traditionally conservative state trounced the Republican candidate Kris Kobach in the race for governor, providing a potential playbook for how Trumpism can be defeated. Whether the Kansas Read More …
On the last day of March, the State Forestry Administration, the Chinese agency that monitors the trade in elephant ivory, closed sixty-seven ivory factories and retail outlets across the country. This was the first phase of a larger plan—announced by Read More …
Six months ago, I was in the National Museum in Beirut, marvelling at two Phoenician sarcophagi among the treasures from ancient Middle Eastern civilizations, when the lights suddenly went out. A few days later, I was in the Bekaa Valley, Read More …
As President Trump was about to sign an executive order on January 27th, he held it up and read its title aloud. “This is the ‘Protection of the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States,’ ” he said. “We Read More …
As James Clapper, the former director of National Intelligence, put it, Watergate “pales” in comparison to the current political scandal surrounding the White House. For the past six months, the U.S. media has followed the story of Russia’s interference in Read More …