When it comes to tamping down excitement, Robert Mueller is a genius. He soldiered on through two much-anticipated House committee hearings, full of politicians eager to make a splash. The result was ... muted.The New York Times opinion17 Aug 2024
It is possible that you didn’t know a 24-year-old black woman started the integration of the New York City mass transit system in 1854. It’s a very good story that involves some kicking and screaming, a ruined hat and a future president of the United States.The New York Times opinion17 Aug 2024
Perhaps you missed it, but this week the House of Representatives held its first hearing on gun violence in eight years.The New York Times opinion17 Aug 2024
Cory Booker is running for president. That makes nine announced candidates for the Democratic primary, and if you add everyone The New York Times lists from “likely” to “might,” you’re up to 22.The New York Times opinion9 Sep 2021
There are a lot of theories about why Rudy Giuliani is still Donald Trump’s lawyer. Maybe his crazed, contradictory rantings are a canny plot to confuse the public about what’s actually going on with the president’s Russia-connection scandal.The New York Times opinion18 Jul 2019
As the whole world now knows, the president was widely denounced for saying a quartet of young minority congresswomen, known as the squad, should go back to “the crime infested places from which they came.”
Trump himself was in Council Bluffs, trying to make sure nobody could forget about his existence for a single second, bragging about his devotion to farmers and calling Biden “Sleepy Joe.”
By now, we’re used to being weirded out by Donald Trump. But the latest meltdown was something special. And it started with ... infrastructure. Who knew?