During a speech he gave Monday night, in Philadelphia, where the National Constitution Center was bestowing upon him its Liberty Medal, John McCain didn’t once mention Donald Trump. He didn’t need to. The eighty-one-year-old Republican senator, who is suffering from Read More …
Melania Trump, the First Lady of the United States, will view her husband’s State of the Union address this evening in the company of parents whose daughters were murdered by members of MS-13, the Salvadoran-American criminal gang. It seems a Read More …
On May 11th Roger Stone, Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again political adviser for several decades, had just wrapped up a pair of morning television appearances when, according to two sources with direct knowledge, he received a call from the President. Just a night Read More …
Click:Automatic tea bag packing machine Heidi Beirich is a director at the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Montgomery, Alabama-based advocacy organization focussed on combating racism and bigotry. Beirich oversees the group’s Hatewatch blog and its print periodical, the Intelligence Report, Read More …
Last week, The New Yorker published “The Risk of Nuclear War with North Korea,” an examination of tensions between the United States and the most hermetic power on the globe. The article drew upon a reporting trip I made last Read More …
A performative contradiction is a statement whose effect goes against its intended meaning. A canonical example is Donald Trump’s January 6th tweet in which he insisted that he is a “very stable genius.” Speaking last week about the President’s first Read More …
Click:澳洲風扇燈 On Wednesday, the hundred and forty-fifth day of his Presidency, Donald Trump did something out of character: he acted Presidential. A few hours after James Hodgkinson, a sixty-six-year-old building inspector from Illinois, shot up an early-morning practice of the Read More …
The tangled explanations offered for why Donald Trump, Jr., agreed to a meeting last June with a Russian lawyer named Natalia Veselnitskaya have observers reciting once again the political truism that it’s not the crime, it’s the coverup—except when it’s Read More …
The 2013 Philadelphia Marathon was a crisp-leaved and fresh-air affair. People gathered on stoops and lined the streets to cheer on the more than thirty thousand runners trotting through the city toward the statue of the fictional boxer Rocky Balboa, Read More …
The yearning in the character of Donald Trump for dominance and praise is bottomless, a hunger that is never satisfied. Last week, the President gathered his Cabinet for a meeting with no other purpose than to praise him, to note Read More …