Twenty years ago, Roger Ailes launched Fox News with a simple but effective premise: most news outlets were liberal, and most Americans were not. “I think the mainstream media thinks liberalism is the center of the road,” he once said. Read More …
One lesson of the Trump era in Washington is that Republican efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare don’t fare well in sunlight. When these proposals are confined to internal brainstorming sessions and leadership conferences, they do O.K. But, once they Read More …
Any way you look at it, the White House’s account of a phone call between President Trump and the Philippine President, Rodrigo Duterte, which took place over the weekend, is shocking. The call was “very friendly,” the White House said Read More …
Much of what we saw from Donald Trump this week merely confirmed what we already knew. He’s boneheaded. He’s a divider rather than a unifier. If he’s not an outright racist—and many people would say that he is—he’s always eager Read More …
To understand the political tsunami set off by the Alabama Senate primary on Tuesday, when Roy Moore, an anti-gay Christian fundamentalist who believes that Biblical law should supersede the Constitution, won the Republican nomination* for a Senate seat in a Read More …
Journalists have developed an elaborate taxonomy to describe Donald Trump’s subversions of truth, distinguishing “exaggerations” from “misleading claims,” and “false statements” from bald-faced, flat-out “lies.” There is not yet, however, a term for Presidential boasts that sound like lies but Read More …
On Thursday, Senate Republicans unveiled their bill to replace the Affordable Care Act. Below, New Yorker writers offer some initial reactions to the news. The Senate bill is really three separate proposals. In the private-insurance market, it amounts to what Read More …
The Gold Cup is not the most prestigious of soccer tournaments. The winner moves on to represent the CONCACAF region—countries from North America, Central America, and the Caribbean—at the quadrennial Confederations Cup, a dress rehearsal, of sorts, for the World Read More …
Early Thursday evening, after a cartoonish debate between Roy Moore and Luther Strange, the Alabama politicians who are competing for Jeff Sessions’s old Senate seat, around five hundred people were gathered outside the train depot in Montgomery to rally in Read More …
Simon Tam fought for eight years to register the trademark for his all-Asian rock band, the Slants. Tam said that the name—a reference to slanted eyes—was an effort to reclaim a racial epithet for Asians and transform a derogatory term Read More …