On July 5th, 2016, Senator Bob Corker, of Tennessee, who on Sunday tweeted that the White House had become an “adult day care center” and told the Times that he worried that President Trump might set off “World War III,” walked Read More …
“Pope Francis Sought Psychoanalysis at 42,” the Times headline read. Other outlets treated the news more salaciously—“Pope Reveals,” “Pope Admits.” Some noted that the psychoanalyst in question was Jewish, or that she was a woman. Below the headlines, though, the Read More …
Among the various chances that congressional Republicans have taken in their effort to repeal and replace Obamacare, one of the riskier moves involves the federal defunding of Planned Parenthood. In both the House and the Senate, replacement legislation has included Read More …
When Houston floods, it turns into a locked circular labyrinth. The city, my home town, is laid out like a wagon wheel: downtown sits at the center, surrounded by three concentric circles, which are bisected by highways in every direction. Read More …
Staff departures have been a constant of Donald Trump’s first year in the White House. Michael Flynn has put in a guilty plea. Steve Bannon, Reince Priebus, and Anthony Scaramucci were pushed out. Sean Spicer is off working on a Read More …
If there was ever a doubt about how Donald Trump would respond to the news that Robert Mueller, the special counsel, had impanelled a grand jury in Washington, D.C., to assist with his Russia investigation, Trump dispelled it in characteristic Read More …
If the Republican Party’s crusade to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act is truly over, Monday night provided a fittingly sudden and chaotic ending. Early in the evening, two conservative Republican senators—Mike Lee, of Utah, and Jerry Moran, of Read More …
The last time the United States men’s national soccer team failed to qualify for the World Cup, Ronald Reagan had recently been sworn in for his second term as President, “Rambo: First Blood Part II” was the No. 1 movie Read More …
Sunday was “an N.F.L. day the likes of which we have never seen before,” as Mike Tirico, the co-host of “NBC Sunday Night Football,” put it. Never before has there been a protest of this sort against the inflammatory remarks Read More …
Emmanuel Macron, the new French President, is off to a fast start. On Monday, just a day after he was sworn in at the Élysée Palace, the thirty-nine-year-old boy wonder reached across the political divide and appointed a moderate conservative as his Prime Read More …