On Tuesday night, a federal district-court judge in California, William Alsup, stepped in to halt the Trump Administration’s cancellation of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the Obama-era program that shields from deportation seven hundred thousand immigrants who came to Read More …
A handful of officials in the White House, the Justice Department, and the Department of Homeland Security have spent the past year attempting to realize President Trump’s vision of an America that is less welcoming of foreigners. John Kelly, the Read More …
Proceedings for Commonwealth v. William Henry Cosby, Jr., began at 9:30 A.M. on Monday, in Norristown, Pennsylvania, outside Philadelphia. The trial concerns Cosby’s alleged sexual assault of a woman named Andrea Constand, in 2004. The weather was gray and drizzly; Read More …
Harvey throttled someone. Harvey called an employee a fucking moron. Harvey threw the shoes, the book, the phone, the eggs. Harvey went to work with his shirt on inside-out and no one had the courage to tell him. If you Read More …
By the time that Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the Labour Party in the United Kingdom, arrived at the vote count in his Islington North constituency, in the small hours of Friday morning, it was clear that something historic had taken Read More …
For years now, it has been fashionable on the right to argue that Europe is heading for Armageddon, that it could not survive the consequences of mass immigration, stifling bureaucracy, an overweening welfare state, and restrictive labor laws. This dark Read More …
The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, hardbound and handsome in ersatz leather, are not a beach read. A typical volume, each a compendium of speeches, statements, and proclamations, weighs four pounds. That is a lot of Read More …
Summing up after the Yankees’ two runs in the seventh at the Stadium last night, and their thrilling go-ahead four in the eighth against the visiting Houston Astros, my across-the-hall neighbor Ethan said, “I’ve been waiting for this for fifteen Read More …
On Wednesday, Richard Burr and Mark Warner, the two leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee, the body that is widely considered to be the most likely to produce a bipartisan report about Russia and Donald Trump, gave a press briefing Read More …
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that fireworks are awesome, that a four-day weekend is long overdue, that a hot dog or two once a year probably won’t kill you, and that the Declaration of Independence is a superb Read More …