New York has never been the easiest place for Petra Kvitova to play. The humid heat bothered her lungs; the surface of the courts at Flushing Meadows was not quite to her liking; there were extra demands, swarming sponsors, and Read More …
George Conway, the wealthy conservative lawyer and husband of Kellyanne Conway, President Trump’s counsellor, prefers to stay in the background. In the nineteen-nineties, he was the hidden author of a successful Supreme Court brief that argued that Paula Jones’s sexual-harassment Read More …
A little more than five years ago, Jeremy Lin, then a guard for the New York Knicks, had one of the most remarkable weeks that the N.B.A. has ever seen. An undrafted player who had received, up to that point, Read More …
Not so long ago, President Donald Trump had backers of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process worried and Israeli settlers and annexationists elated. Many were convinced that a change in U.S. policy toward Israel was imminent, not least because the President’s three Read More …
Yes, it was the Yankees again last night, a relatively easy 7–3 win at the Stadium that began in the rain and featured a thrilling seven-inning, nine-strikeout performance by their twenty-three-year-old ace, Luis Severino. This was the third lose-and-you’re-out win Read More …
In the major leagues this season, batters have been hitting the ball so hard, and so far, that pitchers are suggesting foul play. “There’s just something different about the baseballs,” one veteran reliever complained earlier this summer. “I don’t have Read More …
The first time I heard the name of Robert E. Lee, in a fifth-grade classroom in suburban Connecticut, I was secretly thrilled, if also discomfited, to discover that a man who had played such a pivotal role in the American Read More …
After Hurricane Maria made landfall on Puerto Rico, my family in the United States watched and read reports about the slow trickle of aid to people in need on the island. We knew that if food and water weren’t getting Read More …
Last weekend, Mohammad bin Salman, the young crown prince of Saudi Arabia, converted Riyadh’s Ritz-Carlton into a jail. Salman, whose father appointed him crown prince in June, has vowed to end some of the kingdom’s old ways. He was instrumental Read More …
Stewart Detention Center, in Lumpkin, Georgia, is a hundred and forty miles southwest of Atlanta. Past razor-wire fences and security checkpoints, there’s a small, hot room where visitors who’ve received permission can meet with detainees. A few weeks ago, I Read More …