The Super Bowl is the most popular annual event in American life. When the ritual began, in 1967, the Green Bay Packers, of the National Football League, defeated the Kansas City Chiefs, of the American Football League, by a score Read More …
Click:tapered roller bearing The Chicago Bulls point guard Rajon Rondo is the only N.B.A. player I can think of with a nickname that can only be used for two months a year. That sometime moniker, “Playoff Rondo,” points to his Read More …
Recently, several members and staffers on the House Intelligence Committee, which is investigating Russia’s role in the Presidential election, visited the National Security Agency, in Fort Meade, Maryland. Inside the enormous black glass headquarters of America’s largest spy agency, the Read More …
Last month, after several women had credibly accused her husband, Roy Moore, of trying to seduce them when he was in his thirties and they were in their teens, Kayla Moore published on her Facebook page an open letter, signed Read More …
Bill O'Reilly, the longtime Fox News star, is leaving the channel amid reports of sexual-harassment allegations made against him. Below, New Yorker writers offer some initial reactions to the news. Credit where it’s due: Fox News finally got rid of Read More …
On Monday, the first day of trading since the announcement that Saudi Arabia had agreed to buy a hundred and ten billion dollars in U.S. weaponry, defense stocks jumped. “General Dynamics (GD.N), Raytheon (RTN.N), and Lockheed Martin (LMT.N) all hit Read More …
Earlier this month, when a majority of Senate Democrats demanded Al Franken’s resignation after multiple allegations of unwanted kissing and groping, Bernie Sanders called for a “cultural revolution” to combat sexual harassment. The reckoning would affect “not only high-profile men,” Read More …
It is a truism in politics that special elections usually don’t mean very much. But Tuesday’s runoff election in the Georgia Six, as it came to be known, could be one of the exceptions to the rule. If, on Tuesday, Read More …
Among the heroes of Hurricane Harvey have been hundreds of volunteer boaters, members of the so-called Cajun Navy and other similar groups, who have patrolled the flooded streets of Houston in their own boats, pulling stranded families off of roofs Read More …
On Wednesday night, President Trump had dinner at the White House with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, the top two Democrats in Congress. The three were said to be going over some of the President’s key legislative priorities, including tax Read More …