UNSCRIPTED: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy, by James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams “Unscripted” is a model of how gracefully to tell the most grotesque of stories: that of the final years of Sumner Redstone. A…

It is difficult not to like Mayor Mike Skelly when you first meet him. Even many of the people who hate him, the people who say that he is destroying Ogdensburg, say that they liked him a lot before. Mike Skelly is—by his own description—short and…

As you prepare to reënter “normal” life, it’s natural to feel anxious about socializing in person. One of the major building blocks of interacting with other people is “conversation.” You may feel uncomfortable, but, rest assured, human beings have…

Perhaps we should be grateful for Joseph Tipaldo. He was, by all accounts, an awful man. But it was his theatrical, almost gleeful awfulness that eventually led to the establishment of the minimum wage. In 1934, Tipaldo ran the Spotlight Laundry, in…

Despite all the secrecy that has shrouded Robert Mueller’s special-counsel investigation during the past two years, the two primary questions it set out to answer have long been clear. The first was whether Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign had…

What is surprising about the four-page letter that was issued by Attorney General William Barr on Sunday afternoon is what it lacks. The summary of the principal findings of Robert Mueller’s investigation contains no reference to President Trump’s…

Perhaps 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 special counsel, Robert Mueller, or by the…

On Thursday, the Daily Beast reported that Allen Weisselberg, the C.F.O. of the Trump Organization, will soon be called to testify before the House Intelligence Committee. It now seems likely—at long, long last—that Weisselberg will be a central…

Michael Cohen is a bad man. He was a bad man before he met Donald Trump, he remained a bad man afterward, and he became, if anything, even worse after Trump started running for President. Michael Cohen has—it seems possible—become penitent and…

All week long, there has been a frenzy among those most obsessed with Robert Mueller’s investigation for what was coming on Friday. We expected he would produce a sentencing memo on Paul Manafort and many allowed themselves to believe (hope?) it…

On Friday morning, Roger Stone, President Trump’s longtime political adviser and ally, who has been a fixture in Republican politics since the Nixon Administration, was arrested by the F.B.I. The office of the special counsel, Robert Mueller, issued…

“This may seem hard to believe,” Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former lawyer, told the U.S. District Court judge William Pauley, on Wednesday, “but today is one of the most meaningful days of my life.” It wasn’t that hard to believe. On Wednesday…

On Friday, federal prosecutors released two memorandums on Michael Cohen, one from Department of Justice prosecutors with the Southern District of New York, the other from the office of the special counsel Robert Mueller. While they are ostensibly…

It is no longer journalistically sound to report on the Trump investigation as if it is a matter that may, or may not, yield damning information about the President. In a series of filings that came Friday night, the office of the special counsel…

Michael Cohen has pleaded guilty, once again, to a crime implicating both him and his former boss, President Trump. He confessed to an effort to mislead Congress, the Department of Justice, and the American people. Like so much of the Trump story, it…

Matthew Whitaker, the newly named acting Attorney General and the man who now has authority over Robert Mueller and his investigation, wrote, last year, that he believed the special counsel was going too far. In a column for CNN, Whitaker said that…

It is hard to fathom, after what seems like an infinite period of near-constant Trump analysis, but a simple fact emerged on Tuesday night: the period of serious investigation of Donald Trump is about to begin. There are a half dozen House committees…

What, exactly, is Donald Trump’s business? The Trump Organization is unusual in that it doesn’t appear to do the same thing for very long. It was a builder of apartments for the lower middle class, then a builder of luxury buildings and hotels, then…

The rising and falling of the stock market is, almost always, a lousy way to gauge the health of an economy over-all. Still, the President has used the rise of the stock market as primary confirmation that his vision for the U.S. economy is working.…

Sean Shaw, the Democratic candidate for state attorney general in Florida, has a message for Donald Trump. If elected, Shaw will investigate the President’s financial activities across the Sunshine State. “We’ll pursue any area that is worthy of…