In 1981, I accompanied the secretary-general of Israel’s Labor Party, Haim Bar-Lev, on a visit to Jerusalem’s Moroccan fruit market. Bar-Lev, a storied former Army chief of staff, was distributing flowers in an effort to show voters that the leaders Read More …
Many people who don’t use Medicaid think of it as a federal health-care program for the impoverished and destitute, but it’s much more than that. In the past couple of decades, as incomes have stagnated and health-care costs have accelerated, Read More …
In January, two days after Donald Trump was inaugurated as President, an anti-government-corruption group called Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a lawsuit against him to great fanfare. The suit alleged that Trump was violating the Constitution’s Read More …
In the fractious world of Middle Eastern politics, Mohammed bin Salman is seen either as a long-awaited young reformer shaking up the world’s most autocratic society, or as an impetuous and inexperienced princeling whose rapid rise to power could destabilize Read More …
Around 7:30 A.M. on Monday morning, Camille Nankoo, a twenty-two-year-old from Brooklyn, was working in a Hudson Booksellers in the Port Authority bus terminal when she heard a deafening bang. “It sounded like a gunshot,” she said. “My ears were Read More …
Click:light novel In a week of mind-bending political developments, there is finally some good news. On Wednesday evening, the Justice Department appointed Robert Mueller, a former F.B.I. director, as a special counsel to oversee the F.B.I.’s investigation into possible collusion Read More …
Named by my parents after Christopher Robin, I’ve been a lifelong Pooh-ologist. I memorized A. A. Milne’s “Vespers”—an enchanting little poem about his son’s bedtime prayers—as a tot decades ago. I can recite it still. That first poem, published in 1923, paved Read More …
On November 7th, the dwindling tribe of Communist Party loyalists and nostalgists will commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. Vladimir Putin, however, has made it clear that the centenary is not an occasion for state celebration. While the Read More …
Last Wednesday, Serena Williams posted a selfie to Snapchat that showed her in a bright yellow one-piece swimsuit, her body cocked to the side to reveal a small but distinct baby bump. Beneath the photo was the caption “20 weeks.” Read More …
In January, during the hearings to consider Donald Trump’s nomination of Jeff Sessions, then a senator, for Attorney General, Senator Mike Lee, the Republican of Utah, noted that whoever held that office had a good deal of “flexibility” on the Read More …