The long-awaited opening of the Obama Presidential Center and the former president’s increased public appearances and criticism by President Donald Trump merit a reflection on his legacy and an analysis of the role of his tenure in the rise of Trumpism. Remembering former President Barack Obama‘s historic first campaign in 2008 and his charismatic ideas […]
When is a treaty not a treaty? When it is a deal of the kind that the Obama administration struck with Iran in 2015. When is a deal not a deal? When it is the kind of agreement that President Donald Trump signed in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles on June 17: a memorandum […]
Early in Apple TV’s Star City, an error forces a Soviet cosmonaut’s reentry pod to land in Siberia. Stepping out of the capsule, our heroine is briefly menaced by a bear. Has the Marxist-Leninist state arranged for the creature’s appearance, subduing an erratic “worker” by means of its symbolic beast? Unlikely. Yet it says something […]
The Supreme Court is due to release orders and some of its final opinions on Monday morning, days after delivering wins for the Trump administration in major rulings on immigration. Follow along here for the latest rulings from the court, which should be released shortly after 10 a.m. President Trump said Monday on Truth Social...
I have spent weeks following this story. I have watched allegations, denials, explanations, interviews, and competing narratives unfold in real time. What has stayed with me is not the politics. It’s the women.
Iran’s president on Monday said Qatar will release $6 billion in frozen assets as negotiations to end conflict in the Middle East were strained by new attacks. “Based on the plans made, $6 billion out of the total $12 billion of Iranian resources in Qatar will be released and returned to the country, and necessary...
Our country is facing a critical and urgent question: Do we care if mainstream social media platforms knowingly distribute child sexual abuse material? Our children face unprecedented danger online, as 13-year-old John Doe discovered after falling victim to an online solicitation from a pretty girl on Snapchat. The pretty girl was not real, but instead...