The district of Hodan, in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, exemplifies the city’s transformation in recent years. Visitors can find open-air pizza restaurants, ice-cream parlors and shisha bars, hotels and restaurants, barrow boys hawking bananas and mangoes, and taxis and Read More …
On the morning of November 16th, a few hours before a vast majority of Republicans in the House of Representatives voted for their party’s tax-reform plan, four Republican congressmen from New York held a press conference to express their displeasure Read More …
Last month, during a lecture at the Grande Oriente Masonic Lodge, in Brasília, a Brazilian Army general named Antonio Hamilton Martins Mourão said that the country’s military leaders had discussed overthrowing the government. Corruption investigations have ensnared successive Presidential administrations Read More …
Most of the witnesses being interviewed by the Senate and House committees investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 election have been granted a remarkable courtesy. The norm in Washington is for testimony to be conducted before cameras in a public Read More …
On Sunday night, upon learning that Marine Le Pen would advance to the second round of the French Presidential election, a giddy cheer emanated from the crowd gathered at the candidate’s election-night party, in the northern town of Hénin-Beaumont. Supporters Read More …
On a Sunday night in February, 2007, “Dateline NBC,” the news show, aired a segment about the strange case of Alexander Litvinenko, a Russian dissident who died under mysterious circumstances in London. On the show, several guests argued that his Read More …
On November 7th, in Washington, D.C., after delivering a speech to the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth, Eric Holder grabbed his Blackberry in search of results from the Virginia elections. As the former Attorney General scrolled backward through Read More …
The first two games of the N.B.A. finals matchup, between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Golden State Warriors, were nothing, really, to remember for long. In the first game, the Warriors, led by Kevin Durant—whose change of uniforms, from the Read More …
In the first light of dawn on June 3rd, two rock climbers approached the base of El Capitan, the towering stone heart of Yosemite National Park. They were first overwhelmed—everyone is—by the sweep of golden granite reaching twenty-seven hundred feet Read More …
In the third quarter of Thursday night’s N.F.L. game between the Chicago Bears and the Green Bay Packers, the Bears linebacker Danny Trevathan laid a brutal, helmet-to-helmet hit on an opposing receiver, Davante Adams, causing Adams’s neck to jerk back Read More …