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Andrew has always maintained that he has no memory of ever meeting Giuffre, and that he committed no wrongdoing in any of his relations with Epstein, who died…
Read more Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s Life in PicturesIn May, between the two payments, Trump, overruling objections from his national-security advisers about Emirati ties to China, approved a huge sale of cutting-edge A.I. computer chips to…
Read more Is There a Remedy for Presidential Profiteering?On January 8th, the twelfth day of mass protests in Iran, which began when shopkeepers, responding to runaway inflation, closed Tehran’s Grand Bazaar, the Iranian government shut down…
Read more Why Trump Supports Protesters in Tehran but Not in MinneapolisThere aren’t many moments in Donald Trump’s political career that could be called highlights. But one occurred during the 2016 Republican primary debate in South Carolina, when Trump…
Read more Donald Trump Was Never an IsolationistOn the new map, you can readily see where each train stops, but with less of a sense of where you are on the grid. Central Park, for…
Read more What Will New York’s New Map Show Us?According to the New York City Department of Records and Information Services, Zohran Mamdani will not actually be the city’s hundred-and-eleventh mayor, as many people have assumed. A…
Read more What Zohran Mamdani Is Up AgainstOn a Friday evening in October, 2021, the Justice Department launched into damage-control mode. The Attorney General, Merrick Garland, the Deputy Attorney General, Lisa Monaco, and other senior…
Read more The Justice Department Hits a New Low with the Epstein Files“No maga left behind,” Martin tweeted. He seems to mean it: Trump granted two hundred and thirty-eight pardons and commutations in his first term; less than a year…
Read more The Meaning of Trump’s Presidential PardonsSixty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed two pieces of legislation that are, to a remarkable degree, animating forces in the most volatile aspects of the current…
Read more Voting Rights and Immigration Under AttackThe surprise and shock that so many people have registered at the photographs of Donald Trump’s destruction of the East Wing of the White House—soon to be replaced…
Read more Why Trump Tore Down the East WingPresident Donald Trump arrived at Ben Gurion Airport on Monday morning, October 13th, just as Hamas was releasing the last surviving Israeli hostages after two years of cruel…
Read more A “New Middle East” Is Easier to Declare Than to AchieveThe militarization of American cities, including Los Angeles, Portland, and Chicago, has brought home a perverse irony. Throughout the history of the United States, immigrants have come here…
Read more The Real Problem Is How Trump Can Legally Use the MilitaryFor someone openly campaigning to get a Nobel Peace Prize, Donald Trump has been going about it in an unusual way. Early last month, the President proclaimed in…
Read more Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and the “War from Within”On a humid Charleston evening ten years ago, a ninth-grade dropout with a bowl haircut named Dylann Roof walked into a Bible-study class at Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church,…
Read more Grace and DisgraceFollowing the tragic death of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the line between eulogy and blame wore swiftly and predictably thin. By Monday afternoon, five days after Kirk’s…
Read more Seeing Enemies EverywhereLast month, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services, demanded that Susan Monarez, the newly confirmed director of the Centers for Disease Control and…
Read more R.F.K., Jr., Brings More Chaos to COVID Policy and the C.D.C.In 1976, the year the United States celebrated its bicentennial, Donald J. Trump, thirty, leonine, and three-piece-suited, was chauffeured around Manhattan by an armed laid-off city cop in a…
Read more The Trump Administration’s Efforts to Reshape America’s PastTourists who came to Washington, D.C., last week—tromping from one Smithsonian collection to another, eating ice cream on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial—witnessed a bit of history…
Read more Trump Sends in the National Guard