Trump's policy of taking children from their parents has made US immigration practices seem crueler than ever. Joe Raedle / Getty Images People protest the separation of children from their parents in front of the El Paso Processing Center in Texas. Facing a massive spike in undocumented migrant…

Via Pixabay THE WASHINGTON POST killed my story over a retweeted criticism. They told me I couldn’t pitch them for six months. Then they told me I might have an agenda against the paper. Then they went silent. Seven weeks later, when they learned I was writing about the incident for CJR, they told…

A checkpoint set up by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents Wednesday on Interstate 95 led to the arrest of a fugitive Haitian immigrant who previously was ordered to be deported. The random checkpoint, which was in place for 11 hours, stopped traffic in the southbound lanes between the…

Melania Trump’s excursion in her “I Really Don’t Care” jacket did not send a hidden message. It was there for all to see. 阅读简体中文版 閱讀繁體中文版 First lady Melania Trump made an unannounced trip to visit immigrant children at a shelter in Texas yesterday. Here she returns to the West Wing of the White…

Photo: Tom Kingston/WireImage/FilmMagic Sex and the City aired its first episode on June 6, 1998 — in honor of the occasion, we’re taking a look back at 20 years of SATC. Read all the Cut’s anniversary coverage here . Desus and Mero co-host Desus Nice was around 16 or 17 when he first started…

President Trump at last year’s G-7 summit, in Taormina, Sicily. Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will host this year’s gathering in La Malbaie, Quebec, this weekend. Photograph by Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was less than forty-eight hours away from…

PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump vowed Saturday that his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, will not “flip” and cooperate against him in the special counsel investigation into his campaign's connections to Russia, attacking a New York Times story as part of a “witch hunt” against him. In several…

Op-Ed Contributor Why Facebook Still Matters to Me Ms. Thakral is based in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, supporting the humanitarian response to the Rohingya refugee crisis. A Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Credit... Cathal Mcnaughton/Reuters COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh — I try not to…

To mark ELLE's 30th anniversary, we assembled 35 of the world's most accomplished 30-year-old women for an epic bicoastal production. You can see the full gallery here. Below is a longer version of the interview we conducted with TV writer Camilla Blackett for the magazine. This. Is. 30. Show us…

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders struggled Monday to explain the administration’s shifting response to spousal abuse allegations against former senior aide Rob Porter, providing answers in the daily press briefing that were incomplete or that conflicted with the accounts of other…

transcript 0:00/0:51 -0:51 transcript Trump on Rob Porter: ‘We Wish Him Well’ President Trump on Friday praised Rob Porter, the White House staff secretary who resigned on Wednesday amid spousal abuse allegations. Trump said that Porter did a “very good job at the White House”. Well, we wish him…

Critic’s Notebook Kehinde Wiley has set Barack Obama against greenery, with flowers that have symbolic meaning. Amy Sherald’s take on Michelle Obama emphasizes an element of couturial spectacle and rock-solid cool. Credit... Left, Kehinde Wiley; right, Amy Sherald 阅读简体中文版 閱讀繁體中文版 WASHINGTON — With…

At right, from the top, David Pecker, the chairman of American Media, Inc., the publisher of the National Enquirer; Karen McDougal, a former Playmate of the Year; Donald Trump; and Dylan Howard, A.M.I.’s chief content officer. Illustration by Oliver Munday; Source Photographs: Jesse Grant /…

She dripped disdain. She oozed contempt. “If you were paying attention to what I just read to you . . .” she huffed, like an exasperated teacher reprimanding a classroom troublemaker. Sarah Huckabee Sanders was responding — though not really — to a reporter’s question that she claimed to have…

Everyone wants to be popular online. Some even pay for it. Inside social media’s black market. Everyone wants to be popular online. Some even pay for it. Inside social media’s black market. By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE , GABRIEL J.X. DANCE , RICHARD HARRIS and MARK HANSEN Celebrities, athletes, pundits…

“This is an efficiency play and a best practices play,” said M. Scott Havens, Bloomberg’s global head of digital. At its core, Beizer’s job will be to grow Bloomberg’s audience and get people to read and watch more of its content. To that end, a key focus of hers will be to personalize the…

Up Next Naomi Watanabe, a popular Japanese comedian and designer, on a Gap shoot in New York. Credit... Danny Ghitis for The New York Times Name Naomi Watanabe Age 30 Hometown Ibaraki Prefecture, about two hours northeast of Tokyo. Now Lives Tokyo Claim to Fame With more than 7.6 million followers…

Representative Adam Schiff said it would be hard for the White House to stop the memo’s release. Credit... Erin Schaff for The New York Times WASHINGTON — The House Intelligence Committee voted unanimously on Monday to make public a classified Democratic memorandum rebutting Republican claims that…

John Dowd, the longtime Washington lawyer hired last summer to represent President Trump in the Russia investigation, wants Mr. Trump to rebuff an interview request from the special counsel. Credit... Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters WASHINGTON — Lawyers for President Trump have advised him against sitting…

Do you like me? That’s the latent question throbbing at the center of every Justin Timberlake song, and suddenly the answer is no. His best pop songs always seemed to radiate desire, but it turns out that his music is merely needy — and tonight, headlining a hyper-hyped Super Bowl halftime show,…

NEW YORK—In response to numerous complaints regarding recent delays and route changes to the city’s public transportation system, Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials at a press conference Monday reminded residents that they can fucking walk. “While we always do our best to avoid…

Residents of San Isidro, P.R., waited for food and water in October. Credit... Erika P. Rodriguez for The New York Times Leer en español The mission for the Federal Emergency Management Agency was clear: Hurricane Maria had torn through Puerto Rico, and hungry people needed food. Thirty million…

State of the Art Credit... Doug Chayka Leer en español 阅读简体中文版 閱讀繁體中文版 It’s not Apple’s fault that you feel enslaved by your phone. But the company that gave the world the modern smartphone has a perfect opportunity this year to create a brave and groundbreaking new take on that device: a phone that…

President Donald Trump on Friday denied that he had insulted Haitians amid an uproar about his reported description of African nations as "shithole countries" during a meeting on immigration with lawmakers. "The language used by me at the DACA meeting was tough, but this was not the language used,"…

Updated on: January 12, 2018 / 5:24 PM / CBS News It took the White House 22 minutes to figure out how to enable the "listening only" feature on a conference call on Thursday in which senior administration officials announced that President Trump would continue to waive nuclear program-related…

Bret Stephens Why I’m Still a NeverTrumper Many conservatives have decided that the best way to deal with Trump’s personality is to pretend it doesn’t matter. Credit... Zach Gibson for The New York Times Tax cuts. Deregulation. More for the military; less for the United Nations. The Islamic State…

Illustration by Angelica Alzona. Earlier this year, I went to a dinner party at a friend’s house. The household and guests slowly assembled in the kitchen, opening and closing cabinets, moving a stack of plates from a shelf to a table, volunteering for a deli beer run, until finally a meal was…

On the afternoon of November 8, 2016, Kellyanne Conway settled into her glass office at Trump Tower. Right up until the last weeks of the race, the campaign headquarters had remained a listless place. All that seemed to distinguish it from a corporate back office were a few posters with right-wing…

“Be more confident,” a friend once told me as we made the rounds at a swanky networking event where I felt terribly out of place. Faking confidence is easy: I pulled my shoulders back and spoke louder and with more assertiveness. Like many soft-spoken, mild-mannered people, I’ve spent a great deal…

Photograph by Philip Montgomery for The New Yorker Audio: Listen to this story. To hear more feature stories, download the Audm app for your iPhone. Seven hundred turkeys, two rappers, and an intermediate number of onlookers had assembled in the parking lot of a Kroger supermarket on Cleveland…

Wheels on wood. That soothing sound is a giveaway — the gymnasium at the Salvation Army Bedford Day Care Center in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, isn’t a sad, decaying space cheered up with Christmas lights and a disco ball. This gleaming setting is home to Brooklyn Skate Club, a weekly tonic for the…

Newsrooms are up against a life-or-death mix of maladies: public distrust, dialogue breakdown, platform disruption, disinformation and the fact that everyone is getting completely different information. We’re all looking for a cure. But what if the symptoms of all these ills can trace their root…

If all you knew about black families was what national news outlets reported, you are likely to think African Americans are overwhelmingly poor, reliant on welfare, absentee fathers and criminals, despite what government data show, a new study says. Major media outlets routinely present a distorted…

Viceland, a Vice Media television channel, celebrated the start of a show at Comic Con in San Diego in July. A media company built on subversion and outlandishness was unable to create “a safe and inclusive workplace” for women, two of its founders acknowledge. Viceland, a Vice Media television…

A patron tries to pay with cash at the West 40th Street location of Dos Toros Taqueria, only to learn that only credit or debit cards are accepted. Credit... Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times The other day at Dig Inn, a just-opened lunch spot on Broadway and 38th Street in Midtown Manhattan, Shania…

Welcome to Gridlock Central, otherwise known as New York City during the holidays. It helps to remember that you’re not in Kansas anymore — or Manitoba, for that matter. Life will be so much better for yourself and everyone around you if you observe a few basic rules. In other words, walk this way:…

President Trump at the White House in July. His visceral approach to immigration defined his campaign and has shaped the first year of his presidency. Credit... Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times Trump’s Way The changes have had far-reaching consequences, both for the immigrants who have…

Whether you’re planning to spend the holidays alone this year or have always wondered what it might be like, this story, originally published in December 2017, is the perfect reading material. We’re re-sharing it today in case you need a reminder that celebrating can mean whatever you want it to.…

Dennis Brack/Black Star Former President Barack Obama is making his hip, literate pop culture bona fides known. He’s shared a list of his favorite books and songs of 2017 on Facebook, and the result is equal parts wonky, high-minded, and cool — not to mention laced with what look like a few winking…

On a dark night at the tail end of last winter, just a month after the inauguration of the new American president, an evening when only a sickle moon hung in the Levantine sky, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 helicopters flew low across Jordan and then, staying under the radar, veered north toward the…