Category: You Should See This

Normally I record the classes I teach. It gives students who miss class a chance to catch up. I also make space in my classes to talk about what is happening in government right now. A couple of weeks ago, students asked we keep the discussions, but stop recording the class. They worried about any record of their words that might be viewed as criticism of the current administration, and somehow weaponized against them.

I had eleven brothers and sisters—we all got measles. It was a great week. We stayed home. We watched ‘Sea Hunt.’ ” He went on, “The treatment for measles is chicken soup and vitamin A. You can’t patent those.”

Kennedy’s nostalgic memories are at odds with the well-documented long-lasting harm that the virus can wreak on patients and communities.

One group crossed a plank bridge over Bitter Creek, and another advanced from the railroad tracks. A man named Lor Sun Kit was the first resident shot. A bullet pierced his back; he crumpled to the ground, wounded but still alive. The rioters shot a fifty-six-year-old miner named Leo Dye Bah in the chest, killing him. A thirty-eight-year-old man named Yip Ah Marn was also shot dead

The speeches by two of the most senior members of the Trump Administration were not just verbal lashings of America’s allies but a wholesale rejection of eighty years of U.S. foreign policy. In this extraordinary moment, it’s worth recalling how and why nato came to be.

Two decades ago, Bush’s Republican Party chose to topple the far-off regime of Saddam Hussein. It’s worth taking a second to reflect that, only a short political lifetime later, the government that Trump’s G.O.P. has chosen to go after is our own.

Aaron David Miller, a veteran diplomat and analyst of the Middle East, told me that his “head was exploding” as he watched Trump. “In twenty-seven years of working for Democrats and Republicans, I’ve never heard a press conference like this,” he said.

He compared it with Bakhmut, when machine gunners had to be regularly replaced because they could not handle the pace of killing. “After two hours of laying down so many people, they couldn’t take it mentally,” he said.