When the Washington _Post _reported, on Thursday, that the F.B.I. is investigating Jared Kushner’s meetings with Russian visitors, the news thrust the Russia probe to a new level of proximity to President Trump, reaching above former campaign aides to encompass the President’s Read More …
Last November, a week after Donald Trump was elected President, I spoke on the phone with a fifty-five-year-old divorced college graduate—he declined to specify his alma mater—who had been working as a construction manager in Sacramento, California. The man, who Read More …
Late Monday night, the White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, issued a terse statement—sent to reporters via e-mail—warning Syria that U.S. intelligence had detected preparations for the use of chemical weapons, which “would likely result in mass murder of civilians, Read More …
Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, is the most effective politician of his generation. He may also be the least liked. Exit polls taken during last week’s special election in Alabama, a state as conservative as they come, found that Read More …
Two weeks ago, when I spoke to Anthony Scaramucci, the former White House communications director—the same conversation in which he pilloried several colleagues, threatened to fire his entire staff, and claimed to have called the F.B.I. to investigate the White Read More …
In his last public remarks, made on a live television show, “El Almohadazo,” on Monday morning, the Mexican journalist Javier Valdez Cárdenas spoke by Skype with the show’s presenter, Fernanda Tapia. Their conversation dealt with issues pertaining to Mexico’s decade-old Read More …
In 2013, after a legal battle that had already stretched on for three years, Jessica Colotl, a twenty-six-year-old paralegal who was born in Mexico and raised in Georgia, thought that her immigration troubles were finally over. In 2010, she had Read More …
The N.B.A. draft at Barclays Center, in Brooklyn, is a scene of family happiness that feels both intensely cathartic and also overdetermined. The players sit at round tables before an enormous stage; behind them are rows of press tables and, Read More …
The Mbeubeuss landfill, on the outskirts of the Senegalese capital, Dakar, feels almost volcanic to visitors. Mountainous piles of waste encircle wide craters, where trash fires spew smoke and spit ash into the sky. The odor is nauseating: decaying foods Read More …
Few witnesses in the Russia probe have been as eagerly anticipated by the press and congressional investigators as Donald Trump, Jr., the President’s oldest son. Trump, Jr., was whisked into a Capitol Hill hearing room Thursday morning undetected, depriving a Read More …