During the United Nations climate negotiations in Katowice, Poland, in December, the cavernous modern convention center at the heart of this grim industrial city was like a spaceship in coal country. Outside, the air was so sulfurous and polluted it gave at least one negotiator a nosebleed as they walked …
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Harvard historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore’s latest book, These Truths: a History of the United States, is an epic, sweeping and often disquieting look at the nation’s past. The 800-page opus, starting in the 1500s and moving along briskly to Donald Trump, also serves as a liberal cri …
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Tom Steyer, the liberal billionaire who has gotten more than 6 million Americans to sign a petition calling for the impeachment of President Trump, was a target of the alleged MAGABomber, Cesar Sayoc. Last Friday, postal authorities intercepted an improvised explosive device mailed to Steyer, similar to those sent to …
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In 2016, Donald Trump became the first presidential candidate since James Polk to lose both the state he was born in and the one where he resides. New York rejected the real estate scion by a margin of more than 22 points, and the gap was even greater in New …
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It is no secret that Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is pondering a 2020 run for the White House. Last December, he admitted — in Spanish, no less, during a Univision interview — that he is “thinking about” it, and has even made recent swings through Iowa and New Hampshire. …
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Concerning the State Department today, there’s good news and bad news. The good news is that Rex Tillerson, the ultra-wealthy former Exxon Mobil CEO who’s been called “the worst Secretary of State in living memory,” is out, fired via Twitter by President Trump, after presiding over a 14-month-long gutting of …
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Will the president who fired FBI Director James Comey in May – against the advice of many of his closest advisers, including Steve Bannon– demand the ouster of Special Counsel Robert Muelleras soon as this week? Truth is, no one knows. And that probably includes Trump himself, whosaid on Mondaythat …
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When the news that Alabama Senate candidate and longtime conservative raconteur Roy Moore wasaccused of molesting a 14-year-old girl when he was 32, we braced for the inevitable pushback from those on the right who would defend him. Partisanship is a hell of a drug, one powerful enough to cause …
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Donald Trump visited the marble halls of the Capitol Tuesday in an attempt to get Senate Republicans on board with his perpetually evolving agenda – but the divisions and bitter infighting consuming the GOP stole the spotlight. Before a closed-door lunch meeting with members of his party, one senior senator …
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