The New YorkerRobert Mueller Robert Mueller Breaks His Silence—and Says Nothing NewThe New Yorker - Eric Lach“It is important that the office’s written work speak for itself,” the special counsel, Robert Mueller, said on Wednesday, during his first public remarks since being appointed to the job in 2017. News
The New YorkerRobert Mueller Live Stream: Robert Mueller Makes a Statement on President Trump and the Russia InvestigationThe New Yorker - Eric LachAmong the extraordinary aspects of Robert Mueller’s time as special counsel has been his discretion. The President tweeted. White House staffers leaked. Congressional Republicans spun. Democrats sputtered
The New Yorker A Chilly Reception for Bill de Blasio’s Presidential CampaignThe New Yorker - Eric LachWhat does Bill de Blasio want from us? Twenty seconds into his Presidential-campaign-announcement video, the Mayor of New York City delivers a Christopher Guest-worthy line. “Good thing about New Yorkers,”
The New Yorker Joe Biden, Out of the Past and Into the Presidential RaceThe New Yorker - Eric LachJoe Biden’s last day as Vice-President of the United States was two years and three months ago, but in political terms an entire epoch has elapsed. Donald Trump is in the White House, breaking all the
The New Yorker After the Mueller Report, Trump’s Fate Lies with VotersThe New Yorker - David RohdeThere are incidents sprinkled throughout the special counsel’s report in which President Trump’s behavior is clearly unethical, if not conclusively illegal. Some of them are already public, such as Trump’s
The New Yorker Robert Mueller Let Donald Trump Duck Direct Questions About ObstructionThe New Yorker - Eric LachFor much of the time that the special counsel Robert Mueller was at work, a battle played out, mostly in secret, between the special counsel’s office and Donald Trump’s legal team over what the President
The New Yorker How William Barr Set Up the Reception of the Mueller ReportThe New Yorker - David RohdeIn a highly anticipated press conference at the Justice Department on Thursday morning, Attorney General William Barr sounded more like President Trump’s personal lawyer than like the country’s chief officer.
The New Yorker William Barr Goes Full TrumpThe New Yorker - Eric LachInvestigate the investigators has been a conservative mantra since the start of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. On Wednesday, the country’s top law-enforcement
The New Yorker Waiting Out William BarrThe New Yorker - Eric LachWhen will Attorney General William Barr release Robert Mueller’s report? “Within a week, I will be in a position to release the report to the public,” Barr told the House Appropriations Committee, on And
The New Yorker Elizabeth Warren Against the FilibusterThe New Yorker - Eric LachFilibuster reform isn’t a national political issue, the way health care or taxes or wages are. And it’s difficult to imagine a Presidential campaign built on a candidate’s position toward a Senate procedural
The New Yorker What’s Next in the Fight Over Mueller’s Findings?The New Yorker - Eric LachThere was a moment of something like levity during Wednesday’s meeting of the House Judiciary Committee. The committee had met to decide whether to grant its Democratic chairman, Jerrold Nadler, of New
The New Yorker Mayor Pete WeekThe New Yorker - Eric LachIt’s already boomlet season in the 2020 Democratic Presidential race. “The Mayor Pete boomlet is real,” the CNN analyst and polling maven Harry Enten tweeted, on Thursday, referring to Pete Buttigieg,
The New Yorker The Ongoing Border-Wall Fight and the Limits of Public AttentionThe New Yorker - Eric LachWhat with crowing over the end of Robert Mueller’s investigation and vowing revenge on his enemies, President Trump seems to have forgotten all about the national emergency at the southern border that
The New Yorker Will We Ever Hear from Robert Mueller?The New Yorker - Eric LachFor nearly two years, Robert Mueller has been a silent participant in American government. Tasked by the Justice Department with investigating Russia’s attack on the 2016 election, he communicated with
The New Yorker Robert Mueller Has Delivered a Report to the Attorney General. What’s Next?The New Yorker - David RohdeAfter nearly two years of fervent speculation, the special counsel, Robert Mueller, has delivered his report on potential coördination between the Russian government and individuals associated with President
The New Yorker Trump’s Free-Speech Executive Order and the Right’s Fixation with Campus PoliticsThe New Yorker - Osita NwanevuExactly a year ago, at a forum for millennial Republicans at the White House, President Trump was asked by Charlie Kirk, the founder of the conservative youth group Turning Point U.S.A., what he made recent
The New Yorker The Chaos That Could Come With the Mueller ReportThe New Yorker - Adam DavidsonPerhaps more than anything, many Americans must want a conclusion to the deep existential uncertainty surrounding the Presidency of Donald Trump. Will Trump be brought down by the investigation of the
The New YorkerMichael Cohen The Michael Cohen Search-Warrant Documents and Keeping Up with the Trump-Russia ProbeThe New Yorker - Eric LachIn recent years, news organizations have made it standard practice, in the name of transparency and maybe also S.E.O., to post newsworthy court documents on their Web sites, for readers to peruse themselves.
The New YorkerBeto O'Rourke In Iowa, See Beto RunThe New Yorker - Eric LachOn Saturday morning, Beto O’Rourke went for a run. In North Liberty, Iowa, a suburb of Iowa City, he entered into a St. Patrick’s Day–themed 5K. By the gun, he finished in twenty-four minutes and twenty-nine
The New YorkerBeto O'Rourke What America Will See in Beto O’RourkeThe New Yorker - Eric Lach“His publicity was incredible it was so good,” Hubert Humphrey, the Minnesota senator and Presidential aspirant, once told the author Theodore White, describing John Kennedy’s advantages leading up to
The New YorkerTucker Carlson Can Tucker Carlson Be Shamed?The New Yorker - Andrew MarantzOn his prime-time Fox News show, the most popular cable-news program in its time slot, Tucker Carlson presents himself as an ideological maverick and a crusader for freedom. He often speaks, fervently
The New YorkerPaul Manafort Sentencing Is Not the End of the Paul Manafort StoryThe New Yorker - Eric LachIf you couldn’t get to the Washington, D.C., courtroom where Paul Manafort, the longtime D.C. lobbyist and onetime Donald Trump campaign chairman, was sentenced on Wednesday, one way to follow along was
The New Yorker Elizabeth Warren’s Got a Plan for ThatThe New Yorker - Eric LachOn Friday morning, Elizabeth Warren, who has officially been running for President for a month now, announced a proposal to break up the big tech companies—Amazon, Facebook, Google. On Friday night, she
The New Yorker The Inscrutable Paul ManafortThe New Yorker - Eric LachPaul Manafort began his political career in the late nineteen-seventies, stirring things up in Young Republican politics with his buddy Roger Stone. He hit his stride as an influence peddler in Ronald
The New Yorker Mark Zuckerberg Announces Facebook’s Pivot to PrivacyThe New Yorker - Joshua RothmanFor the last few years, Mark Zuckerberg, the C.E.O. of Facebook, has been posting occasional essays about the future of his company. The most recent, published on Wednesday, outlines “a privacy-focused
The New Yorker Kirstjen Nielsen’s Immigration Word GamesThe New Yorker - Eric LachIn her first appearance before House lawmakers since Democrats took over the chamber in January, a committee hearing that focussed much of its time on last year’s family-separation spree at the southern
The New Yorker John Hickenlooper and the Question of ModerationThe New Yorker - Eric LachA geologist turned brewpub owner turned politician, John Hickenlooper was twice elected mayor of Denver, and then twice elected governor of Colorado. His second term ended just a few weeks ago. Now he’s
The New YorkerBernie Sanders Bernie Sanders Makes It Personal This TimeThe New Yorker - Eric LachFour years ago, Margaret Talbot, in a piece about Bernie Sanders’s first run for President, wrote about the experience of asking the senator from Vermont to talk about himself. “When I asked Sanders a
The New Yorker Socialism Is on the March at CPACThe New Yorker - Osita NwanevuCPAC, the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, had a sleepier start than usual this Thursday morning. Even Matt Schlapp, the chairman of the American Conservative Union, which runs CPAC, noted
