The relationship between President Trump’s words and their consequences has always been fairly straightforward: He says what he wants, and nothing particularly durable tends to happen to him. But in the final frames of his presidency, and in the aftermath of his second impeachment, Mr. Trump is confronting an unfamiliar fate. He is being held […] More
But Mr. Trump will be hard-pressed to evade the considerable financial challenges facing his resorts and hotels, difficulties exacerbated by a pandemic that devastated the hospitality industry and unlikely to be helped by his fallen personal brand. Adding to his economic stress is the more than $300 million in debt coming due in the next […] More
DALLAS — For a couple of days in early January, Frank Miller wandered around his house holding a baseball, practicing the grips for a slider, curve and cutter. He’d read a book about pitching and now he was obsessed. He needed to play catch, stat. So his wife, Alice, more adept at social media, posted […] More
Every once in a while, a news headline calls out for big, bold font. This winter, those headlines kept coming. The news since Election Day has been dominated by the chaos of the presidential transition and the persistence of a devastating pandemic. There were vaccine rollouts, economic crises, political battles, evictions, reckonings with racism, and […] More
Imani Baucom, 29, a teacher in Washington, D.C., has been fantasizing about taking a trip to the Dominican Republic to see a class of fifth graders she taught some seven years ago. They’ll be graduating from high school this spring. Jordan Firstman, a television writer who has found some celebrity this year doing impersonations on […] More
The fashion industry is in a state of emergency. This has been made clear not only by the mounting bankruptcies of big-name retailers, but also by the closure of beloved smaller businesses. These are shops that won’t bounce back. How many clogs did Bird sell in its two decades of business? “I don’t even know,” […] More
Want to get The Morning by email? Here’s the sign-up. Good morning. Joe Biden unveils his plan to defeat the virus and fix the economy. Never let a good crisis go to waste. A version of that line has been variously attributed to Winston Churchill, Rahm Emanuel and others, and the idea is simple enough: […] More
Liz Cheney’s dilemma My colleague Catie Edmondson, who covers Congress, wrote today about Representative Liz Cheney, the No. 3 Republican and one of 10 in her party to vote to impeach the president. A group of Mr. Trump’s most strident allies in the House is now calling on her to resign from her leadership post. […] More
Some might say it was fate (or a calculated casting decision made by the producers) that brought Clare Crawley and Dale Moss together on season 16 of The Bachelorette. But as it turned out, he might be the reason that their relationship even happened — because he could’ve been on the reality show loooong before […] More
Want to get The Morning by email? Here’s the sign-up. Good morning. Donald Trump has become the first U.S. president to be impeached twice. Even during a scandal, a president’s own party members usually defend him. Decades later, people tend to forget how overwhelming the partisan support was and exaggerate the degree of conscience among […] More
Many people frame the ideas of division and unity around political polarization, which has grown in recent years. As the Pew Research Center pointed out in November: “A month before the election, roughly eight in 10 registered voters in both camps said their differences with the other side were about core American values, and roughly […] More
CNN, MSNBC, The Washington Post and The New York Times are among the news organizations that President Trump has falsely labeled “fake news.” And now articles based on reporting from the four outlets are no longer welcome at Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post, according to three journalists who work there. High-level editors at The New […] More
