Click:Green tea bag packing machine Daniel Kahneman, the Princeton psychologist who shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in economics for his role in developing the field of behavioral economics, is a night person. Early on Monday morning, he went to sleep Read More …
Jeremy Corbyn, the sixty-eight-year-old leftist who heads the opposition Labour Party in the U.K., wasn't scheduled to appear at the BBC’s televised general-election debate this week. With Theresa May, the Conservative Prime Minister, and the hot favorite to gain reëlection, Read More …
The most striking thing about the first meeting of President Trump’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, last Friday, in Washington, D.C., was how normal it was, like a throwback to some earlier, more rational Administration. Recognized Read More …
Give Donald Trump credit for one thing: he retains the ability to surprise people, especially his fellow-Republicans. In doing a deal with the Democrats Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi to raise the debt ceiling, pass a spending resolution, and provide Read More …
Nearly everyone who knows him seems to agree that Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney General and the official overseeing the special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of links between the Trump campaign and Russia, has a reputation for integrity. “Rod is Read More …
Two days before the April 19th suicide of Aaron Hernandez, the former star New England Patriots tight end who had been serving a life sentence for the murder of his friend Odin Lloyd, the investigative journalist Michele McPhee appeared on Read More …
On Saturday, on a warm evening in London, there was a terrorist attack. Seven members of the public were killed, and forty-eight were injured. Two weeks ago, a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a concert in Manchester, killing twenty-two Read More …
Wednesday marks the official opening of Parliament in the United Kingdom: an ancient ritual in which the monarch, decked out in full royal regalia, including the Imperial State Crown, reads out a list of legislation that the government hopes to Read More …
We hope you will join us on Facebook tonight for the fourth and final event in our “A Well-Ordered Nation” series, which addresses the Trump Administration, and which is co-produced by the Public Theatre and The New Yorker. “The Way Read More …
For the first time since the Syrian civil war began, Iranian-backed militias appear to have secured a road link from the Iranian border all the way to Syria’s Mediterranean coast. The new land route will allow the Iranian regime to Read More …