President Trump’s credibility as a world leader has been, to borrow his vulgarity, shot to shit. With one word—just the latest in a string of slurs about other nations and peoples—he has demolished his ability to be taken seriously on Read More …
Click:Car diagnostic tool Debates over policies to deal with sexual assault on college campuses have been fraught in the best of circumstances. But under President Donald Trump’s Administration, such debates bring with them a particularly toxic backstory. There was, of Read More …
Knowing the details of policy helps when cutting a legislative deal in Washington. On Wednesday, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer left the White House with the outlines of a breathtakingly excellent deal for their party. The key to their victory Read More …
And so the summer ends for Nick Kyrgios, the talented and tortured Australian tennis player, with yet another memorable performance that he would probably like to forget. On Wednesday, in the first round of the U.S. Open, Kyrgios, whom I Read More …
The error in baseball is a unique phenomenon in sports—a judgment of the quality of play that makes no difference to the outcome. No other sport, not even a close cousin like cricket, has anything like it. Records of errors Read More …
Senator Dean Heller, of Nevada, is a buff fifty-seven-year-old moderate Republican from Carson City, a former stockbroker and the son of a stock-car racer. On Friday, he appeared at a press conference alongside the popular Republican governor of Nevada, Brian Read More …
Three years ago, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi chose the Great Mosque of al-Nuri, in Mosul, as the site to proclaim his new Islamic State. The mosque, known as al-Hadba, or the “hunchback,” for its leaning minaret, is a fabled landmark in Read More …
Senator Al Franken, of Minnesota, hates headlines that say “no joke.” He was subjected to a perhaps unprecedented run of them back when he was running for office for the first time, in 2008. “No Joke: Franken Announces Senate Bid,” Read More …
For a quarter century, Uzi Arad was one of Mossad’s top spies. He rose to become the director of its intelligence division. He later gained fame as a top aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Likud Party leader who Read More …
On Monday, in Richmond, Virginia, before a thirteen-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, the deputy Solicitor General, Jeffrey Wall, was defending President Donald Trump’s motives with regard to the Administration’s latest executive-order travel ban, when Judge Henry Read More …