On Tuesday morning, Dan Gelber, the mayor of Miami Beach, stepped out of City Hall and walked the half block lined by botanical gardens to the city’s convention center, flanked by a small crew of staffers. A press conference was set to start, and Gelber took a seat onstage next to the people who run the […]
McDonald stars alongside Bryce Pinkham, Mister Fitzgerald, Lizan Mitchell, and Abigail Stephenson in the production directed by Tony-winner Kenny Leon. In 1989, Adrienne Kennedy was commissioned to write a play by her hometown playhouse—the Great Lakes Theater in Cleveland. The resulting work was in part inspired by her experience as an undergraduate at Ohio State University as a […]
It was this time last year that New York Times media columnist Ben Smith announced he’d be giving up one of the most coveted jobs in journalism. The former BuzzFeed editor’s abrupt departure quickly sparked a guessing game among media-watchers and members of the newsroom as to who would take his place. While Smith went on […]
Kith and Kin A Smithsonian exhibition explores complex bonds. “Kinship is a sense of shared recognition and trust,” says Leslie Ureña, curator of photographs at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. That word is also the title of the gallery’s winter show, comprising work by eight artists, including LaToya Ruby Frazier, Anna Tsouhlarakis, and Jess T. […]
Growing up, I was one of those kids who was just a little too obsessed with other people’s families. I would linger just a little too long during playdates, stay a little after breakfast at sleepovers, peer into friends’ cupboards. I wanted to know how real families worked. Their mechanics fascinated me. Siblings seemed like […]
Two opposing but not mutually exclusive stories about our current political scene appear in this issue, an apt way to begin a year that will be the gathering before the storm. Let’s start with one perspective: optimism. As Eric Lutz reports in his column “From the Brink,” in the places where election denial was on […]
Early Thursday afternoon, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the appointment of a special counsel to examine Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents, after a relatively small number of them from his time as vice president were found in two locations. In a statement, Robert Hur, the veteran prosecutor (and former Trump-appointed US attorney) assigned to […]
Donald Trump may officially be a presidential candidate for the 2024 Republican nomination, but eight weeks into his third presidential run, he’s acting more like a Palm Beach retiree than a White House aspirant. Trump’s virtually invisible campaign––he has yet to hold a rally and rarely leaves Mar-a-Lago––is a topic of much debate and increasing concern […]
That’s a pretty depressing sentiment. It’s a depressing sentiment, but I think it’s important to note. Yeah. One of the things we’ve done is, we tell heroic stories—you know, Winston Churchill, right, those kinds of things. But we don’t actually talk about how hard it is to actually do that. And I think the good […]
The classified documents scandals engulfing Donald Trump and Joe Biden are starkly different, based on what we know. But that doesn’t mean the president’s handling of sensitive materials from his time in the Obama White House isn’t a legitimate concern — and a significant political problem for his administration, just as it was beginning to gain back […]