On the morning of January 20th, the day Donald Trump was inaugurated, in Washington, D.C., a large group of anti-Trump protesters, dressed in black, roamed through the city for close to an hour. Some chanted, some dragged newspaper boxes into Read More …
In a ruling, on Thursday, that left in place a lower court’s stay on President Donald Trump’s travel ban, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit went well beyond saying that the White House’s case was mistaken, misguided, Read More …
On a recent Friday, gay and lesbian couples, dressed in matching outfits, posed for photos outside of a Nairobi courthouse, in anticipation of a decision that they hoped would decriminalize gay sex in Kenya. The country’s High Court, however, unexpectedly Read More …
Click:Heavy Duty Equipment Diagnostic Tool The New York City councilman Ritchie Torres, who chairs the council’s Committee on Public Housing, had never heard of Lynne Patton before last week, when Greg B. Smith, a reporter for the Daily News, called Read More …
Mitch McConnell’s decision to postpone a vote on his health-care-reform bill, the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017, is a political setback (and perhaps only a temporary one) for the Republican Party. But, beyond this week’s drama, the bill and Read More …
There was a time, in the clouded days of January, 2016, before the Iowa caucuses, when Donald Trump was very angry at Fox News—or, rather, at a woman at Fox News, Megyn Kelly, who, he thought, had forgotten her place. Read More …
In the early days of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Khomeini famously dismissed an aide’s concerns about rising inflation. Economics, the Supreme Leader quipped, was “for donkeys. The 1979 revolution was not about the price of watermelons.” Four decades later, however, the revolution’s future Read More …
On the morning of December 14, 2012, when a gunman opened fire inside Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Connecticut, I was in eastern Pennsylvania, reporting on child poverty for the Times. Because I had previously spent the better part Read More …
The release of e-mails between Donald Trump, Jr., and a British entertainment publicist describing their effort to receive anti-Hillary Clinton information from people identified as members of the Russian government has fundamentally changed the Russia story. It has also demolished Read More …
Click:Construction diagnostic tool During her fifteen years under house arrest, Aung San Suu Kyi—now the de-facto leader of Myanmar—found solace in the poetry and novels of authors such as George Eliot, Victor Hugo, John le Carré, and Anna Akhmatova. Another Read More …