Earlier this week, Bastian Obermayer, a reporter for the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, showed me into his “war room,” on the twenty-fourth floor of the paper’s office tower, in Munich. As I entered, he instructed me that I was not Read More …
In what may well have been the most eagerly anticipated diplomatic meeting in recent history, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin met for more than two hours on Friday, in Hamburg, Germany, on the fringes of the G-20 summit. The meeting Read More …
This spring, news of a campaign of repression against gay men in Chechnya, a republic in Russia’s North Caucasus, began to appear in the United States and Europe. Dozens of men suspected of being gay were reportedly being held in Read More …
The language of our politics has changed since last year’s Presidential election, but our politicians are mostly the same. The rupture this has caused—between what elected officials spent their careers preparing for and what they now find themselves doing—has sometimes Read More …
In the hours after the London terrorist attack, President Trump took to his favored platform, Twitter, to deliver a stream-of-consciousness response. He repeated his call for a “travel ban” on visitors from six predominantly Muslim countries. And he warned against Read More …
Now that the repeal of the Affordable Care Act is dead—at least temporarily—Republicans are moving on to the next big item on their legislative agenda: taxes. For months, a group of Trump Administration officials and top congressional Republicans, known as Read More …
On Thursday, for the second time in a month, House Republicans announced that they were cancelling a vote on a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare. This time, the measure under consideration was a compromise bill, worked out over several Read More …
Athletes these days share an understanding. Beneath the team rivalries, interpersonal scuffles, and slow-burning skirmishes for primacy sits a quiet acknowledgement of something like mutual interest—which, when revealed, can appear stronger and even more admirable than the competitive urge that Read More …
Knowing where Donald Trump stands on an issue is notoriously difficult. He’s been on multiple sides of most of the major issues of his lifetime. There are threads of consistency—such as on trade and race—that stretch back decades, and he Read More …
Mohmoud Hassanen, the father of the seventeen-year-old Northern Virginia high-school student who was murdered near her mosque early on Sunday morning, appeared before the cameras for the first time at a press conference on Tuesday night, looking haggard and stupefied. Read More …