He imposed the most significant overhaul of the F.B.I. in its history. Later, after concluding that Russia had interfered in the 2016 election, he became a target of the president’s anger.
The appointment of Robert S. Mueller III as special counsel to conduct an investigation related to a sitting president roiled Washington around the start of President Trump’s first term.
The G.O.P. senator President Trump chose to lead the Department of Homeland Security privately discussed concessions the White House has repeatedly rejected.
The president issued a threat to deploy ICE agents in an apparent attempt to force Democrats to approve a new budget for the Department of Homeland Security.
While he was supposed to serve in a limited role as an adviser to Kristi Noem, Mr. Lewandowski had wide influence over contracts, personnel and operations inside the agency over the last year.
Pierre-Édouard Stérin is financing projects to make France less Muslim, more Catholic and more capitalist. He says his program has trained thousands running for municipal office on Sunday.
A stalwart of the mass media century, the longstanding network that launched the careers of journalists like Edward R. Murrow will air its final broadcast in May.
Voting starts Sunday on a referendum to overhaul Italy’s judiciary. Many people don’t understand the complex proposal — and it could hurt Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
A foreign policy freed of liberal pretenses and imperial ambitions could lead to restraint—or, as the Iran attack shows, simply license hit-and-run belligerence.
The cruellest irony is that of a President who addresses the Iranian people in the language of liberation and then threatens freedom of the press back home.
What drew many people to the city was not luxury but, rather, stability and the feeling of remove from war. As Iran attacks the U.A.E., that sense of distance is eroding.
Hezbollah, Iran, and Israel helped fuel a disastrous political crisis in Lebanon. Now the Netanyahu government is using it to justify a larger conflict.
They’ve often been a punch line, but by fusing their political convictions to a broader cultural identity they seemed to find something that we’ve lost.
In the President’s first term, Iran demonstrated what tactics it would use in a confrontation with the U.S. Yet the Administration seems to have no game plan.
After speaking out about the Atlanta Hawks’ promotion of a strip club, the backup center for the San Antonio Spurs drew unexpected attention to his blog, which is shaped by his faith, sense of humor, and personal reflection.
The state’s lieutenant governor has won the Democratic race to fill Dick Durbin’s U.S. Senate seat; Republicans elect Darren Bailey to challenge Governor J. B. Pritzker.
The social psychologist Jonathan Haidt discusses social media’s “subversion of the ability to pay attention on a species-wide level,” how policymakers are intervening, and what more we should be doing to protect children.
Even with Kristi Noem gone, the Administration’s immigration agenda shows no signs of flagging—in fact, it is leading toward a new humanitarian and legal crisis.