As 2009 ended, the editors of this magazine at the time took their measure of the first year of Barack Obama’s presidency and declared it, with some reservations, a modest success. “All of this might not exactly MORE
We may come to remember this decade as the one when human beings finally realized we are up against something. We’re just not quite sure what it is. More of us have come to understand MORE
Will the seemingly significant events we have lived through this decade be important in the grand scheme? Are there powerful historical forces playing out that we’re missing? Where will Black Lives Matter, the social media MORE
“Sunday Morning” invited opposing views on the current impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump over the scandal involving the illegal withholding of security aid to Ukraine in return for an acknowledged political favor. Articles of MORE
It’s important to read this editorial by Charles M. Blow if you are feeling let down by Congress Republicans. It is hard for me to be out in public or on social media without being MORE
Long after Trump leaves office, these judges will shape American law — pushing it further and further to the right even if the voters soundly reject Trumpism in 2020. On the courts of appeal, the MORE
Three of the professors agreed that Trump should be impeached: Noah Feldman of Harvard Law School, Pam Karlan of Stanford Law School, and Michael Gerhardt of the University of North Carolina School of Law. The MORE
One of the more compelling arguments against a wealth tax is that the rich already donate plenty to charity, money that would otherwise go to the government; this was part of Mark Zuckerberg’s defense of his MORE
Devin Nunes, the ranking Republican on the Intelligence Committee, opened today with a statement attacking media reporting on the Trump administration. He singled out six stories for attack. One of them was retracted by its publisher, CNN—a MORE
It’s difficult to talk about impeachment, but this can help. MORE
The end is near in the three-year-old saga of Colin Kaepernick and the NFL, and it’s about time. After Kaepernick attends a bizarre combine-style workout Saturday in Atlanta in front of representatives from many NFL teams, he MORE
In a thread on Twitter, the 59-year-old Disney heiress asks fellow members of the baby boomer generation when they became “so easily triggered”. “The more often you object to Millenials’ [sic] understandable resentment toward a MORE
Leonard Pitts Jr. wrote another awesome OpEd that spells out how the GOP has made it so difficult for people, especially people of color, to vote in several states. He begins by reminding us that MORE
A bit over four years ago, I was with Donald Trump when, perhaps for the first time, he was publicly booed in the context of the presidency. Given the catcalls he received last Sunday at MORE
For the past four weeks, I’ve been monitoring the evolving defenses put forth by President Trump’s allies. They began with flat-out denials of wrongdoing that didn’t survive casual brushes with scrutiny. Some of Trump’s defenders then tried to MORE
When the final vote tally on a formal resolution governing the impeachment inquiry concluded on Thursday with a party-line split — all Republicans present voted against the resolution, and all but two Democrats voted for MORE
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Mark, In 2010, I wrote “The Social Network” and I know you wish I hadn’t. You protested that the film was inaccurate and that Hollywood didn’t understand that some people build things just for the MORE
President Trump has executed a policy U-turn on Syria. He’s now tasking U.S. forces that he’d promised to withdraw from there with a new mission: securing the oil fields of southeastern Syria. “This doesn’t violate MORE
The unquiet spirits, vampires and the omnipresent zombies that take over American streets every October 31 may think Halloween is all about spooky fun. But what Halloween masqueraders may not realize is that in the MORE
To: Senate Republicans By now it should have dawned on you that there is no escape. You are going to have to render a verdict not just on Donald’s Trump’s policies, but on his personal MORE
From Rolling Stone, Oct. 17, 2019: Occasionally, a horror-movie series can produce a sequel, threequel, or prequel that mines exciting new territory, pushes its mythology to bold new places and, on rare occasions, be equal MORE
Trump’s legal team is trying to get the Courts to agree that a sitting president in office is above the law. The related line that is often recognised “Trump could shoot someone in New York MORE
While the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel has issued legal opinions that a sitting president cannot be indicted, there is no similar prohibition on indicting a president’s personal lawyer or other potential co-conspirators involved in committing a federal crime. MORE
In the corrosive and dangerous Trump presidency, the outrages fly so fast and the chaos mounts so thoroughly that it’s easy to pass off the entire unsettling phenomenon as one more made-for-TV-and-Twitter unreality show. New MORE