On Thursday, after officials in the New York City offices of Immigration and Customs Enforcement informed him that he was going to be deported, the immigrant-rights activist Ravi Ragbir fainted. An ambulance was called to take Ragbir and his wife, Read More …
Nineteen years ago, after medical school at Columbia University; a stint at Montefiore Medical Center, in the Bronx; and a period running homeless shelters in Times Square; Karen Kinsell moved to Fort Gaines, a tiny town in southwest Georgia, on Read More …
News came Tuesday afternoon that Maria Sharapova, the winner of five major tournaments in her long career, would not be offered one of two possible wild cards into the French Open, a tournament she has won twice. She was denied Read More …
The latest Trump Administration reset has begun, or so we are being asked to believe. On Tuesday, Mike Dubke, the White House communications director, confirmed that he was leaving his job after just three months. There is also talk of Read More …
Customarily, when you are in the first couple of weeks of a new job, it’s best to learn the names of the people around you, absorb the rudiments of your new workplace, maybe figure out the lunch situation. This was Read More …
Did President Donald Trump’s travel ban violate the Constitution, or just the law? Late last month, the Fourth Circuit found that the executive order in question, which suspends the entry into the United States of people from six predominantly Muslim Read More …
The mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Carmen Yulín Cruz, is a petite woman with a large personality. Yulín, as she is known, has earned international renown since Hurricane Maria for criticizing Donald Trump’s lackadaisical response to the catastrophe. She Read More …
On Wednesday, as expected, the Federal Reserve raised short-term interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point, to 1.25 per cent. This is still a very low rate by historical standards, but some real news came during the press Read More …
If there was an organizing principle in Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday—which was by turns dismissive, incoherent, evasive, and shameful—it was that certain people are owed deference, and certain others are not. This Read More …
On Monday morning, the Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments on the constitutionality of the Trump Administration’s executive order barring travellers from several majority-Muslim countries from entering the U.S. It also allowed the travel ban—which the Administration first issued in Read More …