Category: POLITICS
Posted on November 5, 2020
Hillary Clinton’s Two Decades in the Political Spotlight — New York Magazine
Photo: Douglas Friedman/Trunk Archive For four years, Hillary Rodham Clinton flew around the world as President Barack Obama’s secretary of State, while her husband, the former president Bill Clinton, lived a parallel life of speeches and conferences in …
Posted on November 5, 2020
Frank Rich on Rand Paul — New York Magazine
Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images In the Labor Day weekend scramble set off by President Obama’s zero-hour about-face on Syria, the only visible politician in Washington who knew just what he wanted to say and said it …
Posted on November 5, 2020
Jonathan Chait on the Government Shutdown — New York Magazine
Illustration by Oliver Munday In a merciful twist of fate, Juan Linz did not really dwell to see his prophecy of the demise of American democracy borne out. Linz, the Spanish political scientist who died very last week, …
Posted on November 5, 2020
Why Julian Assange Is a Crucial Historical Figure — New York Magazine
Image: Andrew Parson/I-Images/ZumaPress/Newscom Right until pretty recently, there have been only a handful of people today on the earth with a specific feeling of how considerably curiosity the world’s intelligence organizations have in them. Some schizophrenics have been …
Posted on November 5, 2020
Frank Rich on the History of Government Shutdowns — New York Magazine
Photo-illustration by Gluekit. Clockwise from top left, Calhoun, Goldwater, Cruz, Gingrich.Photo: © Bettmann/Corbis (Goldwater), Terry Ashe/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images (Gingrich); Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (Cruz) The great government shutdown of 2013 was barely a day old, and already blue …
Posted on November 5, 2020
Why Bill de Blasio’s Promise May Also Be His Problem — New York Magazine
Photo: Christopher Anderson/Magnum Photos/New York Magazine He is joking, but he’s not kidding. “When I spoke last time, they needed a much smaller room,” Bill de Blasio says to laughter. “This is the glory of American democracy!” Exactly …
Posted on November 5, 2020
An Excerpt From Mark Halperin and John Heilemann’s ‘Double Down: Game Change 2012’ — New York Magazine
The debate was only a few minutes old, and Barack Obama was already tanking. His opponent on this warm autumn night, a Massachusetts patrician with an impressive résumé, a chiseled jaw, and a staunch helmet of burnished hair, …
Posted on November 5, 2020
Mayor-Elect Bill de Blasio’s Frenemies — New York Magazine
Illustration by André Carrilho Monthly bill de Blasio gained the minimal little bit of beach front time he’s making the most of this weekend in Puerto Rico. His three-yr run to victory was a amazing feat of political …
Posted on November 5, 2020
What Rob Ford Could Learn From Six Other Misbehaving Mayors — New York Magazine
Photograph: Colin McConnell/Getty Visuals Irrespective of admitting final week that he did, following all, smoke crack, Toronto mayor Rob Ford has solved to run for reelection in 2014. His odds glance dicey, but voters have returned worse mayoral …
Posted on November 5, 2020
Bill de Blasio’s Most Difficult Challenge: Saving Public Schools — New York Magazine
Illustration by Andy Friedman There had been threats up in Binghamton, a in close proximity to riot out on Long Island. But right here in Crown Heights, when condition instruction commissioner John King arrives for the hottest prevent …