Todd S. Purdum
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters ‘We Gather Here to Mourn the Passing of American Greatness’
Meghan McCain electrified the congregation with a tear-filled eulogy in which she drew razor-sharp contrasts between her father, Senator John McCain of Arizona, and a president conspicuous by his absence.
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Win McNamee / Reuters John McCain and the Lost Art of Decency
In decades of covering politics, I’ve encountered no one else with McCain’s unflinching combination of bracing candor, impossibly high standards, and rueful self-recrimination.
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Jim Acosta’s Dangerous Brand of Performance Journalism
The CNN reporter is speaking truth to power—but he’s also amplifying the president’s anti-press campaign.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters A Star Is Broken (and Then Reborn)
Within the space of a day, Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was vandalized, and then quickly replaced.
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Denis Poroy / AP This Isn’t Dianne Feinstein’s Democratic Party
The longtime senator from California is likely to win reelection. But the state’s liberal, antiestablishment wing is already winning the future.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Worst Russia Blunder in 70 Years
The president’s absolution of Putin will stand as the most surreal moment in 70 years of Russian-American relations, and maybe the most bizarre and troubling utterance by any chief executive in American history.
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Bettmann / Getty Remembering ‘Big Nancy’ Sinatra
The first wife of Frank Sinatra, who died at age 101, pre-dated the invasions of fame, and survived with grace what came next.
