Frequently Asked Questions: My Engagement
How’d he pop the question? First of all, your assumption that Peter is the one who proposed is both appreciated and correct! As for the proposal: it was the most intimate moment of my life, which I’d be thrilled to tell you all about in detail. If you’re on Instagram, you can also watch the…
The Reverend Bill Owens Stands Behind Trump
During the past several weeks, President Trump has been ramping up his racist and inflammatory attacks on nonwhite lawmakers and activists. After telling four lawmakers of color to “go back” to where they came from, he targeted Representative Elijah Cummings, of Maryland, saying that “no human being would want to live” in Cummings’s Baltimore-area district.…
Living in the Shadow of Guantánamo
Listen with: iTunes WNYC Stitcher TuneIn When Mohamedou Salahi arrived at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, in August of 2002, he was hopeful. He knew why he had been detained: he had crossed paths with Al Qaeda operatives, and his cousin had once called him from Osama bin Laden’s phone. But Salahi was no terrorist—he…
Mississippi’s Gubernatorial Race Tests the Limits of Conservatism
Tate Reeves has spent eight years slashing a state budget that had never been known for its largesse. As the two-term Republican lieutenant governor of Mississippi—a position that places him at the head of the state’s Senate, a sort of Deep South Mitch McConnell—he has spearheaded more than fifty tax cuts, the largest of which…
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The Best Beach Reads for When You Left Your Book at Home
“Cell Phone, Volume I,” by Tech Giant What’s a tweet, anyway, if not a short story? And you downloaded the Kindle app back when you left your book at home before that eight-hour flight on which you ended up watching all four films in the “Kung Fu Panda” franchise. Don’t forget all the articles you’ve…
Senator Michael Bennet on His Long-Shot Bid for the Presidency
Listen with: iTunes WNYC Stitcher TuneIn In May, the Colorado senator Michael Bennet became the nineteenth Democrat to announce that he was running for the Party’s Presidential nomination. He is among the most experienced and respected candidates: prior to his decade as a Democratic senator from a purple state, he was the chief of staff…
Cory Booker Tests the Power of His Best Performance at the Democratic Debate
Cory Booker did well on Wednesday night. He hit his talking points (a few minutes after he said that Congress should pursue the impeachment of Donald Trump, “the politics of this be damned,” his campaign e-mailed out a press release with the subject line “Politics, be damned”) and brought race into the debate in purposeful…
The Battle Over Barack Obama’s Legacy at the Democratic Debates
When the 2020 Presidential campaign began, earlier this year, with more than twenty Democratic candidates crossing the starting line, there was a widespread assumption that the contest would be dominated by the presence of Donald Trump, the most polarizing President in living memory. As far as the general election goes, that operating assumption may still…
The Stunning Grounds, and Tragic History, of the Lost Gardens of Heligan
Click:Pyramid tea bag packing machine I don’t understand the point of garden visits. Why do ordinary people, the owners of mere balconies and tiny yards, torment themselves by touring other people’s grand estates? Nut trees, stables, ancestral compost heaps: I need no reminder of what I am missing. So, unlike virtually every other gardener in…