Trump’s Reckoning Arrives
The president’s unpredictability once worked to his advantage—but now, it is producing a mounting list of foreign-policy failures.
Michael Avenatti Is the 1990s-Style Celebrity Lawyer of the Trump Age
The bombastic legal adviser to Stormy Daniels is taking cues from the era of O.J. Simpson and Monica Lewinsky.
Trump’s Very Trumpian Letter to Kim Jong Un
The text reflected not only the president’s signature syntax, but also the clash between his desire for credit and his intuition to walk away.
The Unconscious Rules of Personal Space
The distance you keep from others is an elaborate, instinctive dance.
Jason Bateman’s Tired Defense of Jeffrey Tambor
In excusing his Arrested Development castmate’s verbal abuse of Jessica Walter, the actor showed how Hollywood has justified bad behavior for generations.
That Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid? It Triggered Global Warming, Too
100,000 years of scorching temperatures may have followed the impact.
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Trump’s Very Trumpian Letter to Kim Jong Un
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