Jeff Flake is a relatively anonymous Republican senator from Arizona who has just published a remarkably forceful book, titled—in a nod to Barry Goldwater—“Conscience of a Conservative.” The book attempts to reckon with what conservatism means in the age of Read More …
Two years ago, the Greek island of Lesvos was often in the news, as thousands of refugees arrived on its shores—nearly daily—in small rubber boats. They came from Turkey, just a few miles away. Some made it, while others drowned. Read More …
Agnes Gund, the president emerita of the Museum of Modern Art, sometimes runs out of ready cash for her liberal philanthropy. “This is why I have to sell so much art, because I promise things that I can’t really pay Read More …
At the start of 2017, I could not have imagined that Australia would end the year by following in the recent footsteps of America and Ireland to legalize same-sex marriage. Since 2004, twenty-three bills regarding marriage equality (or the recognition Read More …
A year and a half ago, the world got a new heavyweight boxing champion, when an unpredictable Englishman named Tyson Fury found a way to wrangle Wladimir Klitschko, the stalwart Ukrainian. Klitschko, along with his older brother, Vitali, had ruled Read More …
President Trump is a selfish liar, and a vain one. Those traits, together, can cause chaos, as they did on Thursday, when, in an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt, Trump undermined his own alibi for firing the F.B.I. director, James Read More …
Linda Peterson is a seventy-one-year-old retired computer-sales executive in Auburn, Alabama. She lives alone with her dog, Otis, and she always votes Republican. She’s been following the state’s G.O.P. Senate runoff, which takes place next Tuesday, closely. The race to Read More …
Husam Zomlot is the Palestinian front man in Washington. Born in a Gaza refugee camp, he has a doctorate in economics from the University of London and was a research fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center. Now in his mid-forties, he represents a new generation of Read More …
Last week, Pew Research published a “political typology,” a schema of nine voter categories it had invented, on the basis of a national poll of political attitudes, to capture the ideological state of the nation. Pew has been doing this Read More …
It is often said that the U.S. Presidency is a relatively weak office—but that is a contingent statement. To prevent the President from gaining too much power, or abusing that power, the Founding Fathers divided authority among the different branches Read More …