Washington DC
How much does Trump’s rift with military brass matter?
Donald Trump needs to ramp it up. After he almost bobbled a glass of water and carefully descended a ramp…
A night in an American riot
Race riots have gripped the nation over the past week, eclipsing the peaceful protesters demanding justice for the death of…
War footing: can Trump turn left-wing protests into victory?
Don’t cross Donald Trump. Trump originally ran for the presidency because Barack Obama mocked him at the White House Correspondents’…
Pity the shopkeepers
Small businesses in America have been hit by a devastating double whammy. Stores that managed to survive the economic shutdown…
The Washington war zone
Washington, DC Last night, I took my usual evening stroll in Friendship Heights, only to realize that it could have…
Why Joe Biden’s America loves a lockdown
COVID-19, the Wuhan virus, is an epidemiological scourge — but it’s also a clarifying catalyst for American politics. The virus’s…
Coughing crotchety codgers at a dull DC coronavirus debate
Two gentlemen considered at ‘high risk’ of contracting COVID-19 met tonight in the Washington DC studio of CNN, to pitch…
Trump’s ‘Salute to America’ is the perfect fusion of capitalism and patriotism
The Washington, DC city council is having none of it. ‘Tanks, but no tanks’, it tweeted at Donald Trump. Trump…
Madness in Manhattan
Life has far more imagination than we do, says the epigraph from Truffaut that opens Salman Rushdie’s 12th novel —…
No, women can’t have it all
Don’t even ask, says Anne-Marie Slaughter, law professor and former adviser to Hillary Clinton. Motherhood still means sacrifice
A choice of crime fiction
Pity the poor novelist whom commercial pressures trap within a series, doomed with each volume to diminish the stock of…
